Time-Share Holiday Brokers in general

Good Evening and Congratulations! You’ve just won a holiday for 2 in Florida. What do you think to this news, I bet you’re so excited you can’t speak etc….. Haven’t we all received such calls and probably haven’t taken the holiday as by the time you pay the insurance and flights you could choose your own destination at a time that suits you and not the promoters. Time share people come in all guises, it can be like that on the telephone coming into your home unasked and usually at dinner time or it can be as you walk along a pretty promenade enjoying the view whist on your holiday that you are accosted. It was such a scenario that happened to us a few years ...

Having emerged fresh from a second presentation to collect our "Free Holiday", the good lady and I thought it would be a good idea to help the uninitiated/ unprepared understand how these brokers try to get you to sign up. Before going into detail i would add that I do believe timeshare can work, and be a good buy if your cash position and motivation are there. However, the typical sales techniques used to attract people to sign up are still based on getting £5,000 to £20,000 commitments after a two hour presentation with the threat that if you don't do it there and then you won't have a second opportunity. The first carrot dangled to you is a ...

Please note: This opinion is based on Interval International and not timeshares in general. My family got persuaded into buying a timeshare back in 1998. We were on holiday in Tenerife and we were stopped to scratch off one of those scratch cards. Of course we won and because it was £100 of duty free my dad wanted to go and claim it. We got whisked off into a taxi to have a look at these apartments. My mum and dad promised themselves they wouldn?t buy anything and even began using me as an excuse. After looking around the first apartment they told the rep they would soon have to leave as I had forgot my asthma medication. An hour and a half later they were still ...