Watch out for "free stuff"
by SouthernFriedInfidel | Published on July 25th, 2008, 12:48 pm | Life
Some cautionary tales for folks who actually take these bloody time share and travel club presentation hooks seriously. Actually, my wife and I did get ourselves suckered into a few of these waaaaay back in the day. In Daytona Beach, we went to a timeshare presentation. Lucky for us, we were too poor and had too bad a credit rating to qualify for even THEIR standards of loans. But they gave us an honest free night stay in Kissimmee. In a hotel that was in the middle of being gutted and rebuilt from the ground up. And we had to pay $10 in hotel taxes, but hey -- we were only a few miles from both Gator Land and Disney World. We went to both, and paid for a couple more nights at a nearby Ramada while we were at it. So it worked out.
Our next foray was up in the mountains. That got us some free steak knives. We decided not to bother after that. The stress of saying "no" to these hard-sell addicts was ruining our trips to nice places.
I will say that we finally DID find a timeshare that was worth the money, and provides extremely good value. Won't mention it here because of the subject. But I do tend to encourage my friends to visit them when they really are able to get into a timeshare.
