The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services regulates telemarketing within the state. Earlier this month, Scott Andrew Friedman of St. Petersburg, was arrested for running an unregistered telemarketing operation.

Friedman’s business, Premier Timeshare Vacations Inc, was contracting with consumers to advertise their timeshares for sale. The business was operating, despite not being registered by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, and having received a cease-and-desist order directing them to stop telemarketing operations until the business was properly registered.

According to myfoxtampabay.com, Friedman was arrested and charged with, “telemarketing without a license and hiring unregistered sales people”. Both offenses are third-degree felonies.

Friedman’s arrest came only a few days after the Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement (OALE) arrested two Redington Shores men charged with the same felony acts as Friedman. James Ezell and Robert Vaughan were arrested regarding their business, US Properties Listings LLC, which contracted with consumers to sell advertising for vacant land and timeshares.

According to the Tampa Bay Business Journal, agencies in both New Mexico and Florida had received numerous complaints about US Properties Listings LLC.

If you have a complaint against a Florida timeshare company or telemarketing company, you can file your complaint by calling the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services at 1-800-HELPFLA.

Sell My Timeshare NOW always enthusiastically supports efforts by regulatory agencies to keep the timeshare and timeshare resale industries upfront and above board.

The Disneyland Resort in California has announced plans to add 250 units to the Grand Californian Hotel & Spa, 50 of which will be timeshare units.

This is the first Disney timeshare offered on the West Coast. Until now, Disney timeshare resorts have all been located at Walt Disney World Orlando, which has six timeshare resorts along with a resort located in Vero Beach, Florida and another one at Hilton Head, South Carolina.

Disney’s timeshares currently include approximately 2000 units in the 8 existing resorts. Many insiders are speculating that the 50 units planned for the Grand Californian are only the tip of the iceberg for Disney’s west coast timeshare plans.

The Los Angeles Times quoted Disneyland Resort President Ed Grier as saying, “This expansion underscores our commitment to growing and investing in both the Disneyland Resort and the Anaheim Resort area.”

Becoming a member of the Disney Vacation Club starts around $17,000, with $26,000 being the average expenditure, if you purchase through the Disney Vacation Club. But you can also buy Disney timeshare resales at very competitive prices at Sell My Timeshare NOW.

Disney Vacation Club Timeshares:

• Disney’s Animal Kingdom Villas
• Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort
• The Villas at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge
• Disney’s Beach Club Villas
• Disney’s BoardWalk Villas
• Disney’s Old Key West Resort
• Disney’s Vero Beach Resort
• Disney’s Hilton Head Island Resort

Are you ready to start paying taxes for surfing the net?

How about a tax when you send or receive e-mail messages on your cell phone?

Or taxes because you are a telecommuter, who saves the planet a little bit every day by being one less automobile on the highway during rush hour.

Sell My Timeshare NOW doesn’t think much of the idea either.

Currently, a ban exists that (1) prohibits taxation of internet access; (2) prohibits double taxation (which is taxation by two or more states or entities on a product or service bought over the internet); and (3) prohibits discriminatory taxes that treat internet purchases differently from other types of sales.

The moratorium, or ban on an internet tax has been in place since 1998. In 2004, Congress extended the ban. But on November 1, 2007, that ban expires.

According to a Reuters news article, “Internet service providers say the price of internet access could rise by as much as 17 percent if the moratorium on state taxes were allowed to expire.”

Most of us recognize that the internet is the most powerful communication and education tool in the world and has potentials that we have only just begun to tap. Because of internet access, you have at your fingertips, an instant connection to news, health information, financial resources, global research, friends, family, strangers, and the vast worlds of sports and entertainment. No one is too geographically isolated, too time-constricted, or too young, old, or impaired to benefit from the endless fountain of renewable information that flows not minute by minute but nanosecond by nanosecond via the world wide web.

The internet brings you images of natural disaster on the other side of the globe, videos of your grandchild sent moments after her birth, and vital information your doctor needs to accurately diagnose your illness.

Why would anyone think it is a good idea to make internet access more complicated, more costly, or even inaccessible?

If this issue matters to you, contact your United States Senator or representative to Congress and speak up. Urge him or her to do more than reinstate the moratorium. Let’s ban this tax permanently.

There is a reason Wyndham timeshare is the largest vacation ownership company in the world—they just never seem to stop expanding.

Early this month, Wyndham Vacation Ownership debuted in Panama City Beach, Florida.

By acquiring 100 timeshare units at the Emerald Beach Resort from Emerald Beach Resort, LLC, Wyndham launched their first timeshare destination in Panama City. In the works is a contract for Wyndham to purchase an additional 156 timeshare units there as well.

The timeshare resort already is well known for spectacular views of the Gulf of Mexico. The resort will be available for occupancy within the next few weeks and is part of the FairShare Plus Program of Wyndham timeshares.

Including the Emerald Beach timeshare, Wyndham has 5 timeshare resorts in Florida’s Panhandle.

Wyndham timeshare resales on Florida’s Gulf Coast are available at:

• Wyndham Bay Club II timeshare
• Wyndham Beach Street Cottages
• Wyndham Majestic Sun timeshare
• Wyndham FairShare Plus Timeshares

Sell My Timeshare NOW can help you sell Wyndham timeshare you already own, or connect with timeshare owners wishing to resell their Wyndham timeshare units.