If you use all your points, your maintenance fee is waived?

[steffnap]

Been an owner for 5 years, just recently went to a "review" where they tried selling us more points. One of their main selling points was that if we use all our points, as long as our bluegreen account reads 0, that they waive the maintenance fee? This seems odd to me. I asked a bunch of questions, they all came back with yes you can waive the fee as long as your account reads out 0. They said between using them, transferring to choice, or rolling to the next year, that it would waive the maintenance fees. They even pulled out a bluegreen hand book which I'd love to get a copy of and showed us in the handbook where it stated this.

Has anyone else ever heard of anything like this, or know if it's a real thing? They were pretty adamant that it was a real thing through all of my questions. I know theyre sales people and its their job to bend the truth, but i think i grilled them on it pretty good. And they weren't talking about using your points to pay the MF's, they were talking about a rule in the bluegreen hand book stating that if your account is at 0 points at the end of your points year, that somehow the MF's would be waived.

 

[bnoble]

Think about this just for a second. There is no chance this can possibly be true. If it were true, then that means that large numbers of owners can stay at the resorts at no charge. And if that were true, how would the resorts ever pay for their ongoing operating, maintenance, and renovation costs?

There is probably a kernel of truth in there somewhere. For example, it might be possible to convert points to offset fees. But, that's probably a negative-value proposition (you get less credit than the points cost), and there is no way you can make up losing money on each point in volume.

Finally, let's assume that it somehow is possible to stay in resorts for free in a way that magically generates the revenue needed to run the resort. If I was a timeshare developer, and I knew how to do that, there is no way I would sell those points to anyone else, because I had a money-printing machine. Instead, I'd be a-printin' by renting those stays out and pocketing the entire proceeds as profit.

 

[sponger76]

Yeah, that's a big no. If this were a thing, all owners would be making sure to use up every last point every year, and nobody would be paying Maintenance Fees, and in very short order the resorts would be out of business.

 

[rickandcindy23]

This is just a new low for Bluegreen's salespeople. "Tell them anything" is the motto of sales.

 

[pedro47]

Wow! Tell that salesperson to put it in writing and watch his lips sing to a difference song beat.

 

[davidvel]

Strange, I was at a car dealer today and the salesman said if I drive over 20,000 miles a year I will not have to make my loan payment. Sounds like a great deal.

Has anyone else ever heard of anything like this, or know if it's a real thing? They were pretty adamant that it was a real thing through all of my questions. I know they're sales people and its their job to bend the truth, but I think I grilled them on it pretty good. And they weren't talking about using your gas rebates to pay the loan, they were talking about a rule in the lender handbook stating that if you drive over 20,000 miles a year, that somehow the loan payments would be waived.

 

[RX8]

Timeshare salespeople will say anything to make a sale. The hard part for the salesperson is to make verbal claims that are outrageous enough to close you on the sale as a happy customer but not so outrageous as to get you investigating after the fact and ultimately rescinding.

 

[davidvel]

Timeshare salespeople will say anything to make a sale. The hard part for the salesperson is to make verbal claims that are outrageous enough to close you on the sale as a happy customer but not so outrageous as to get you investigating after the fact and ultimately rescinding.

Anyone who believes such a preposterous assertion and buys is very unlikely to have the mental ability to rescind.

 

[90_Min_Sales_Pitch]

I was offered 5,000 points for $17,000 today in Las Vegas. They claimed that this was enough for 1.5 weeks if done right. The parking lot here is nearly empty, and the claim was made that more owners were using their points for cruises rather than staying at the resorts. Looking at Ebay, I have to wonder how much people paid for all these points that have to be given away...

 

[Sophie13]

I was offered 5,000 points for $17,000 today in Las Vegas. They claimed that this was enough for 1.5 weeks if done right. The parking lot here is nearly empty, and the claim was made that more owners were using their points for cruises rather than staying at the resorts. Looking at Ebay, I have to wonder how much people paid for all these points that have to be given away...

We were offered 6,000 points for $16,000 last month and bought to get to silver level. But I can tell you that people are complaining high and low on the Facebook page about not being able to get the resorts they want, even at Platinum level. And unless you convert your points to Choice Points you can't use them for a cruise. I tried a couple months ago and was denied.

 

[Beth_Curt]

Been an owner for 5 years, just recently went to a "review" where they tried selling us more points. One of their main selling points was that if we use all our points, as long as our bluegreen account reads 0, that they waive the maintenance fee? This seems odd to me. I asked a bunch of questions, they all came back with yes you can waive the fee as long as your account reads out 0. They said between using them, transferring to choice, or rolling to the next year, that it would waive the maintenance fees. They even pulled out a bluegreen hand book which I'd love to get a copy of and showed us in the handbook where it stated this.

Has anyone else ever heard of anything like this, or know if it's a real thing? They were pretty adamant that it was a real thing through all of my questions. I know theyre sales people and its their job to bend the truth, but i think i grilled them on it pretty good. And they weren't talking about using your points to pay the MF's, they were talking about a rule in the bluegreen hand book stating that if your account is at 0 points at the end of your points year, that somehow the MF's would be waived.

OMG!!! Report that salesperson. He/she is full of BS