Name: Michael Earle, president, Vacation Register

Earle declined to be interviewed, but emailed a response saying his company offered legitimate advertising. Earle refuted former business partner John Haggar's claims that all complaints against Vacation Register are Earle's fault.

“I could be wrong, but if you are listening to the John Haggars of the world for your article or trying to smear the few good guys ever to be in the industry, your article will be a failure," Earle wrote.

Earle has two convictions of felony marijuana possession, one conviction of felony cocaine possession, and multiple misdemeanor drug possession convictions, according to state records.

Name: John Haggar, president, Vacation Register International

Haggar is the son of Paul Haggar, a former contractor and developer well-known for the Christmas lighting display on his Snell Isle home in the 1980s.

Haggar says he has known Mike Earle and Albert Wilson since they were children growing up in the same northeast St. Petersburg neighborhoods. He followed them into timeshare resale, but Haggar says he ran an honest company, while Wilson and Earle didn't.

Haggar now runs My Consumer Advocate, a company that helps victims of timeshare resale scams get their money back. He says he regularly calls state agencies to point out timeshare resale companies he thinks are scams.

“I’m hated in this industry. A big joke two years ago was that they were all going to get me a bullet-proof vest,” Haggar said.

Name: Jennifer Focke

Focke, a 34-year-old nurse from Denton, Texas, was saving for fertility treatments when a salesman called and convinced her to spend $400. She owns a timeshare in Hawaii, and the Vacation Register salesman told he could sell or rent it. Focke says she could never find the listing for her unit on Vacation Register's website.

Fock says she was swindled by two other Florida resale companies. She spent about $1,200 total, and never sold or rented her timeshare. She eventually did get fertility treatments, and has infant twins. She could have had them sooner, she said, if she hadn't paid the timeshare resale companies.