TUGBrian
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The media is starting to get it!
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-free-time-shares-20110405,0,3159535.story
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-free-time-shares-20110405,0,3159535.story
Correct.Hey, that's our Alan Cole (AwayWeGo) who is quoted in that article.
Correct.
Not only that, an NBC producer with the Today Show who read the Orlando Sentinel story now wants to put me on TV to talk about it.
They had planned on coming over with 1 of their TV cameras today, but they put it off till Monday.
Won't that be something ?
-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
Correct.
Not only that, an NBC producer with the Today Show who read the Orlando Sentinel story now wants to put me on TV to talk about it.
They had planned on coming over with 1 of their TV cameras today, but they put it off till Monday.
Won't that be something ?
-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
I don't know about that.Alan, that's really something! That tops our pic in the NY Times a few year ago.
Nobody wants to know what I think about politics, economics, music, literature, science, history, health, travel, children, entertainment, movies, religion, food, family, philosophy, sports, medicine, computers, women, money, friendship, war, peace, or anything of serious content.Wow! Who'd a thunk it! Alan on the electric TeeVee.
After your face is on national TV discussing the advantages of buying resale and talking about how no one should ever buy full freight, it is going to be real hard for you if you go on timeshare tours for the freebies. You might be banned from all timeshare tours like the card counters are banned in Vegas. They might have your picture posted in every sales room of every Wastegate, Wyndham, Marriott, and Hilton timshare sales office in the entire USA. You might get escorted out of the presentation long before you get to go to gifting.
This article struck me as a real downer. No mention of the excellent vacation values available to those willing to learn the resale market. Neither does the article point much blame toward the the hard sell developers who have managed to sell more of this product than the market really wants to own. No mention of the fact that the developer that was proposing taking away benefits from resale owners is only exacerbating the problem by further driving down the value of resales. To the uninformed, I think it leaves you with the idea that the real problem is the resale market rather than the oversupply of units and the fact they are forcibly sold to people who aren't truly prepared for the commitment of owning.
The producer showed up right on time -- even talked The Chief Of Staff into participating.Go get 'em Alan!
From time to time while I was on camera, I held up a little computer-printed sign in dark black characters spelling out tug2.net. The producer kept motioning for me to put the little sign out of sight, but after it was down a short while I held it up again. That little up & down sequence went on 3-4 times during the interview -- will be interesting to see whether the little sign shows up on screen at all or gets totally cut in the editing process.
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The Washington DC producer said she'll let me know when the piece is scheduled for broadcast. If she actually does let me know, I'll pass along that information via TUG-BBS in case anybody is interested.
I'd love to be banned from all timeshare tours!! But I would want my name flagged upon check-in...so they don't bug me at all!
In that case, when the camera was rolling I should have been wearing a special shirt.After your face is on national TV discussing the advantages of buying resale and talking about how no one should ever buy full freight, it is going to be real hard for you if you go on timeshare tours for the freebies. You might be banned from all timeshare tours like the card counters are banned in Vegas. They might have your picture posted in every sales room of every Wastegate, Wyndham, Marriott, and Hilton timshare sales office in the entire USA. You might get escorted out of the presentation long before you get to go to gifting.
For Ginger Brownlow, a sales executive at King's Creek Plantation, a luxury time share in Williamsburg, Va., the challenge is competing with her own product when it's selling for half price on sites such as Tremblay's. Though her price includes the cost of marketing the resort and driving consumer demand, resellers are capturing some of that demand with much-lower prices.
"I'm selling it for 35 [thousand], the people on the Internet are selling it for 15 [thousand]. How do I compete with that?" Brownlow said.
But even as she looks for solutions — Brownlow favors restricting resale owners' access to certain ownership benefits — she also knows the resale market is essential because it allows existing time-share owners elsewhere to trade in their current units and upgrade to her resort.
The media is starting to get it!
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-free-time-shares-20110405,0,3159535.story
I was contacted by direct tranfers to get rid of my timeshare. They don't buy them, they have you pay a fee to take it from you. I was wondering if this type of company is a scam.