vtsnowedin
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My better half brought me a letter the other day and asked if I wanted to play the Yes/No game again. It was a promo we had seen before where they promise you some good "prize" for showing up and listening to a sales pitch for a time share condo. We had made out OK on one of these before and had nothing special to do so gave it a shot. Today was the day and we showed up. The promo was at the Killington ski area about an hours drive for us. Same old thing. Buy a week in one of their condo units but you don't have to use it, just swap it for time at any one of there thousands of resorts all over the world. And the maintenance fees and dues are at present $950 a year which should read $950 a week as you only bought one week and there is of course increases in those fees in the out years they forget to mention. They were talking $30K for a good but not prime week in ski season but then tried to bait and switch us to a unit up in Maine on the beach (not a summer week) for JUST $6900 at 6% blah blah blah etc. But you had to jump on it and cut them a check for $800 or so today and commit to 84 months of payments at $130 a month.
I told them to write it all out in a contract and I'd take it home and consider it. (might even run it past my lawyer). They said no. had to be today and and grabbed all the paper on the table and hid it away. I said see yah.
I thought then they would pony up the $100 Walmart card that was the bobbie prize and send us on our way. Instead they lets us pick out from a bowl of Walmart cards and got just a $5.00 one But then gave us a seven day Caribbean cruise with air fair on one of the better cruise lines. Not totally free of course but less then $100 per day for the two of us plus the booze bill. Not a bad day after all. It was funny having the wife hit my knee under the table when she thought they were BSing us. My knee is sore from the pounding.
I told them to write it all out in a contract and I'd take it home and consider it. (might even run it past my lawyer). They said no. had to be today and and grabbed all the paper on the table and hid it away. I said see yah.
I thought then they would pony up the $100 Walmart card that was the bobbie prize and send us on our way. Instead they lets us pick out from a bowl of Walmart cards and got just a $5.00 one But then gave us a seven day Caribbean cruise with air fair on one of the better cruise lines. Not totally free of course but less then $100 per day for the two of us plus the booze bill. Not a bad day after all. It was funny having the wife hit my knee under the table when she thought they were BSing us. My knee is sore from the pounding.
They wanted $645 a year plus $125 dues for a one bed room. Say they manage to sell 50% of the weeks on that 100 units. .50 *52*100*780=2,028,000 a year in operating cost locked in and you have the other 50% to rent out on busy ski weekends. That is a lot of cash for mowing the bark mulch lawn.
