gkIrish
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Again, you asked for advice. We gave it you. If you want to ignore the unanimous advice, why do you ask in the first place?
Again, you asked for advice. We gave it you. If you want to ignore the unanimous advice, why do you ask in the first place?
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You'll have to pay for the tax on everything.
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koonja
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I'm asking advice from people who have actually done the timeshare for free trip trade off. I'm not going to give someone advice on how to ride a camel if I've never been to the desert.
Have you done the timeshare presentation trade off?
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gkIrish
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Fuck no.
If something is a bad idea, you aren't going to hear it from people that have actually done it. You will hear from people who have done it if it's a good idea.
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koonja
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We'd otherwise be going on a vacation at full price sometime after the new year, so while you're right I do have to pay taxes on everything, that's kind of a sunk cost to me either way.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Frugal/comments/43ouue/anyone_have_reallife_experience_with_free/
Googled it cause that question actually got me curious. But, ya, you should stay far away from this. As everyone has said.
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koonja
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From your article, like 3rd comment:
'My parents did something like that maybe 2-3 years back, and my dad tells the story a lot at family functions (so may be slightly "dad" exaggerated). They were offered tickets to a local concert (about a $250 value) if they listened to a 90-minute timeshare presentation.
My dad said that they had everyone (30 people or so) sit in an auditorium, and once the presentation started, the entrance door was closed and there was no handle on the other side so you couldn't open it from the auditorium. The only exit was a fire door that had a big sign, "EMERGENCY EXIT: ALARM WILL SOUND WHEN DOOR IS OPENED".
After about two hours, my dad actually stood up and interrupted the presentation, said that he had stayed the full required 90 minutes, and would like to leave now. The presenters insisted that they were almost done. After another 30 minutes or so, my dad stood up again, and said that he would like to leave, and if they would not let him leave, he was going to call the police for being held hostage.
At that point, they let my parents leave with the tickets. My dad considers the experience a success, my mom was absolutely mortified and said she would never, ever do something like that again.
So moral of the story: you must have a thick skin and read the conditions carefully, and insist on leaving once you have fulfilled your promised "time"."
Well I can thank IE for my fully matured thick skin. Sounds like I'm the perfect person to capitalize on something like this.
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koonja
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I will follow in this guys' shoes:
"It was AWESOME and I walked out of there with $150 in my pocket, a 3-day weekend at a nice hotel for hardly anything, and no timeshare. I felt like John Travolta, strutting my stuff down 45th with the soundtrack to "Stayin' Alive" playing in the background. 9/10 would do again."
"It was AWESOME and I walked out of there with $150 in my pocket, a 3-day weekend at a nice hotel for hardly anything, and no timeshare. I felt like John Travolta, strutting my stuff down 45th with the soundtrack to "Stayin' Alive" playing in the background. 9/10 would do again."
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So how long until we get a post saying that Koon bought a timeshare?
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You know how the super nice cruise ships sometimes catch on fire and get stranded at sea? And people have to go for several days without showering, and have to poop in buckets, and eat warm, stale, and most-likely-expired Lunchables? With warm bottles of water?
The cruise ship you'll be on will be MUCH worse than that. And it will be loaded with people that will hound you the entire time you aren't in your room. And you'll get hit with all kinds of fine-print fees.
The cruise ship you'll be on will be MUCH worse than that. And it will be loaded with people that will hound you the entire time you aren't in your room. And you'll get hit with all kinds of fine-print fees.
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Timeshares are definitely, definitely for the poors.
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Except that many timeshares can't even be given away because they depreciate so quickly.
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koonja
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I would not buy a timeshare. There is no way. I will probably be giggling the entire time. I think the timeshare presentation would be a social madness experience worth seeing once, sort of like how I view a day in jury duty. Not fun, but interesting to experience once.
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I feel like random people posting how great a timeshare presentation experience was are just the people trying to sell timeshares.
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I want to know if jumping off a bridge is a good idea? I can't trust the people who've never done it cuz how would they know, amirite? So where are all the people that have jumped off bridges, please raise your hand?
Nobody?
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I did one of these because if I lasted the 2 hour presentation, they would give me a Ipad... well fine print was they usually run two hours, but to get ipad, you have to stay entire time... 3 1/2 hours later, I got my ipad, but the anger I have for timeshares and people selling them remain high
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I'll be that guy, my wife and I have done this twice, all expense paid vaca and on one of like 3-4 days we were required to attend the seminar... Koon, if you know you will not buy, then go man, it's fun and free,... don't be that sucker though, they hard sell the hell out of you at the seminar, they make it sound so great... go, attend the stupid 3 hour tour... yeah 120 minutes, it's never that short... laugh, walk out, and have a ton of fun otherwise... it's not that hard to do.
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gkIrish
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The underlying issue is that I don't trust Koon to not screw this up lol.
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koonja
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They're clear that the presentation lasts 120 minutes. But if it lasts 6 hours, I don't care. I'd fully expect that entire day to be shot, but if at the end of the day, I can say in 3 months I'm taking my GF on a 5 day cruise with all meals paid for, I don't care if I sit in jail for those 6 hours for that presentation. You have to understand my perspective and sincerity that I will not buy. I'm counting that day as a loss.
I also think the hard pitch will make for a great story one day.
I also think the hard pitch will make for a great story one day.
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WHY ARE YOU ASKING FOR ADVICE THEN??????????
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It's clear now that he wasn't actually asking for advice.
He was just asking us to proof-read his idea, to make sure he wasn't missing something that will result in his being over-charged and/or have his identity stolen.
(Which are both still on the table.)
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koonja
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Because again, asking people who've actually done this to see if there were any other surprises in their experience that I am not aware of. Cost wise, it makes complete sense to deal with the presentation. But are there other non-cost snags, such as you get pulled behind a the ship on a rope the whole time, and such?
I don't see how that's crazy to ask if others have done this and how it went and if they regretted it. Sounds like those that actually did this, don't regret it. Those that don't (you), say it's crazy.
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The one we did at Vegas was great, pretty good accommodations, free rides anywhere in town, to and from,... two shows of our choice, we did Phantom and Mystere for the record, and free meals at the in house restaurant that was pretty high end... and all we gave them was a solid "no" at the presentation. We'd honestly do that all the time (I mean if they give it to you why pay for it all??) but they track who attends these things to prevent thinking like ours... I believe most have a five year window or some such before you can do it again.
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Also, I get koon's thinking, the first time we did this my wife and I were also very prepared for some major 'fine print' charge to come out of nowhere... but nope, they really expect to knock your socks off, and guilt /talk you into this wonderful world they've given to you for free the last few days... let's you know how effective it is since they keep doing it.