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On 5/16/2013 5:28 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 15 May 2013 16:27:15 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 5/15/13 4:21 PM, True North wrote:
One other memory....to get a free breakfast for the family, and out of curiosity, we took one of the tours selling time sharing.
We were warned by friends that it can be a hard sell tour and they were correct.
I wouldn't do that again...and yes, I resisted buying a week in a new condo development just so we could spend vacation time in Orlando each year.

Been on one of those in Virginia Beach. We were told it would take an
hour and in return we would get pretty good dinners at three very good
local restaurants. It was raining that morning, so it wasn't a beach
day. Sales pitch took two hours, we said no, but we did get three good
dinners for two at two of our favorite restaurants and one we'd never
previously visited.

A time share, to me, is a horrifically stupid purchase. The owner of the
time share gets to sell the damned thing 52 times. We did stay at a
Disney time share a few years ago, though, and the place was first class.

My brother in law showed me how to get out of those time share sales
pitches in a few minutes. He has the uncanny ability to do fairly
complex math in his head and he simply runs the numbers on the actual
cost of ownership verses the cost of a real nice hotel and talks loud
enough to distract the other sales pitches in that bullpen.

I take a calculator but the principle is the same. We usually are told
"well I see you are not interested" and they send us on our way.
I seem to be on a black list tho. They don't call me anymore but it
might just be that the time share business is going away..

Harry is the only one I know of who walked away from a time share
presentation, a winner.