Having a bad day!!

I have this problem of being too trustworthy of people! I am almost 100% positive that I have been scammed by someone wanting to purchase our timeshare. Brian and I purchased a timeshare while we were down in Last Vegas last year. That was our first stupid mistake! We should've known that it wouldn't be worth it because we don't go on vacations very often and when we do we aren't the type of people that need to stay in some fancy hotel or condo!!

So we have been looking to sell it. We paid a company, Timeshares By Owner, to list our property and take care of all of the processing of the deed and other things that would need to take place in order to sell the timeshare. It was an upfront cost, but we will not have to pay anything else in the end. At first I thought this was a scam and I was kicking myself for signing us up for that one, but it turns out to be a legit company. We were even refunded almost 90% of what I paid because the guy that was working with me did lie to me and they had it on tape and they paid us most of our money back.

Then I get this phone call yesterday from a different company, Luxury Equity Traders, saying they saw our ad on the Timeshares By Owner website and there is a guy who buys timeshares and then resells them at a conference he holds every month. I've had many MA NY phone calls from people wanting to buy/sell our timeshare and I thought I was getting very good at knowing when it was a scam or not. 99% were scams!!! I won't go into all of the long details of everything, but long story short, I ended up sending them money that they said was needed to do the Deed Transfer and other legal documents. They are still in contact with me, but I just have this gut feeling that they are going to rip us off!!!! We were supposed to receive an overnight FedEx package today with all the paperwork and our check for the timeshare. But of course it's being delayed in their processing department. Yea right!!!!!!!! I'm guessing they will continue to say that there is a delay and then one day they will magically disappear and they will change their names and phone numbers!!!! I went to our local police department but there is nothing they can do because it is out of their jurisdiction. I filed a complaint on two different government websites that the police officer told me to because they have more authority and can contact the people in the right jurisdiction. I'm guessing that process will take longer than what it will for these guys to change their names and numbers.

I feel like such an idiot for falling for this scam. I should've known better!! Worst thing is, I was stupid enough to send the money via Western Union so there is no way to track it and I tried to cancel the transaction literally 2 hours after I placed it because I just didn't feel right about the whole thing and it had already been cashed on the other end! Didn't take them long! I'm feeling so sad about the whole thing and I really wish I could turn back time!!