Eric B
TUG Member
- Joined
- Jun 10, 2017
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- Resorts Owned
- Vacation Village, Wyndham, WorldMark, Vistana, Vidanta, Flora Farms, HGVC Max, and some independents
Vidanta doesn’t seem to care about whether or not you proceed with the sale of your timeshare. In my opinion, they are interested in maintaining the fiction of it for other sales as part of the marketing/sales pitch. If you look st the agreement you signed and there is nothing compelling the other party to do anything, it can’t really be called a contract. Other folks have posted about negotiating lower prices to keep what they already own; what I did and what I recommend is contacting member services and telling them you have decided to keep it for sentimental reasons and asking them to have the agreement, which no one else signed, voided.
The stuff about not being able to rescind sounds like a bunch of baloney to me. It’s too late now since it was early November, but that was just a sales guy lying to you. At this point you probably have two options; figuring out how to enjoy the Vidanta membership or becoming a big enough gadfly that they let you off the hook. There have been a few that accomplished the latter; see Russell Sun’s posting above. I’m one of the former, myself; they are quite nice resorts.
If you used your timeshare to exchange and go there, do the math and see if it’s a cheaper way to get there for a week than paying the usage fees. For me, it’s more efficient to exchange via SFX, paying their fees and my other TS MF, so I do that for low/shoulder season trips, using my membership w/Vidanta for the high season times. If they start structuring the usage fees and concomitant benefits (golf/spa/etc usage w/staying through them vice exchanging) differently, I’ll reevaluate my plans, of course, but you’re probably best off getting out of the timeshare turn in without throwing away any more money and either using it still or giving it away or selling it here or somewhere else that has a better reputation. There is a lot of info on TUG about selling TSs.
The stuff about not being able to rescind sounds like a bunch of baloney to me. It’s too late now since it was early November, but that was just a sales guy lying to you. At this point you probably have two options; figuring out how to enjoy the Vidanta membership or becoming a big enough gadfly that they let you off the hook. There have been a few that accomplished the latter; see Russell Sun’s posting above. I’m one of the former, myself; they are quite nice resorts.
If you used your timeshare to exchange and go there, do the math and see if it’s a cheaper way to get there for a week than paying the usage fees. For me, it’s more efficient to exchange via SFX, paying their fees and my other TS MF, so I do that for low/shoulder season trips, using my membership w/Vidanta for the high season times. If they start structuring the usage fees and concomitant benefits (golf/spa/etc usage w/staying through them vice exchanging) differently, I’ll reevaluate my plans, of course, but you’re probably best off getting out of the timeshare turn in without throwing away any more money and either using it still or giving it away or selling it here or somewhere else that has a better reputation. There is a lot of info on TUG about selling TSs.