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On our 3rd visit to GL NV we decided to go to the presentation to learn more about Vidanta. We told them there was no way we were buying anything on the spot and they gave us a Tower II 9th floor room with drop dead views of the ocean and the nature preserve so we figured this was a good time. We got a really good, seasoned salesman who ended up giving us a lot of information. We spent about an hour at breakfast and we could have probably left about 90 minutes later but did not because even sifting through the sales pitch there is a lot that was interesting about him and the general timeshare information we were talking about.
The problem came when we tried to leave after [voluntarily] spending a lot of time. They DO NOT want you to walk out of there and the rest was an infuriating [unpleasant] show of people (in two separate places no less) taking up time and threatening to not give us the rest of the "gifts" (the 10% off etc) because we had not "completed the presentation". We just refused to sign anything and walked away. After hearing a lot about how philanthropic and wonderful Mr. Chavez the owner of the whole shebang is and how well he treats his employees, I was left wondering why he lets his guests be harassed by his sales team. And why he wants us to see his sales team employees as a bunch of low-lifes who are desperate to sell his properties which would be better seen as such good buys that they would sell themselves. The more pressure we got the more I wondered what they were hiding. (Reminds me of a paraphrase of a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote "the more he talked of his honor the faster we hid the silver...")
The problem came when we tried to leave after [voluntarily] spending a lot of time. They DO NOT want you to walk out of there and the rest was an infuriating [unpleasant] show of people (in two separate places no less) taking up time and threatening to not give us the rest of the "gifts" (the 10% off etc) because we had not "completed the presentation". We just refused to sign anything and walked away. After hearing a lot about how philanthropic and wonderful Mr. Chavez the owner of the whole shebang is and how well he treats his employees, I was left wondering why he lets his guests be harassed by his sales team. And why he wants us to see his sales team employees as a bunch of low-lifes who are desperate to sell his properties which would be better seen as such good buys that they would sell themselves. The more pressure we got the more I wondered what they were hiding. (Reminds me of a paraphrase of a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote "the more he talked of his honor the faster we hid the silver...")
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