Timeshare meeting

[cimmel]

I am waiting to get the deed for my first timeshare. I was just wondering what I can expect when I use my week. my brother-in-law has Wyndam points that he trades for differant locations every year. He told me that when they get to the resort a meeting is always setup. The resort does not try to sell them more points or weeks. What the resort wants to know is what they paid on the resale market for the points. They tell the resort that is none of their business what was paid for it.
I am buying a week on the resale market with VRI. Is this what I can expect? Can't they just tell the resort they don't want to have a meeting? What is the resort after? Will I be bothered on my vacation with a meeting to find out what I paid or have to listen to a sales presentation?

 

[Luanne]

It all depends on where you go. Most of time when we trade into other resorts there is no meeting, and nothing we are required to do. Sometimes we are invited to participate in some kind of activity that will lead to a discussion about conversion to points, or purchase of a timeshare, but we just say no, we're not interested.

 

[DeniseM]

Unless you buy a special discount pkg. for which you are required to attend a presentation to get the discount, you are NEVER required to attend any meetings at the resort.

They will try to make you think you are - but it's not true - it's just more pushy sales BS! JUST SAY NO THANK YOU!

I also recommend that you unplug the phone in your room to avoid pushy sales calls - your friends and family will call your cell phone anyway.

 

[Passepartout]

I own at some VRI managed resorts and have exchanged into more. Whether or not there is a 'meeting' depends on the resort. Most VRI resorts are pretty well sold out of the developer's weeks, so there is no- or very little sales activity there. If there is any kind of get together, it's usually the morning after your arrival, and will have a presentation of what activities are available and to sign you up for them. There may be a continental breakfast included.

I have never experienced anything like the high-pressure sales oriented required attendance I have heard about at (Wyndham) other timeshare resorts.

We attend the 'owner's update' at VRI resorts. It gives us a chance to meet other guests and there may be some discounted tickets for local attractions.

I think you will find a far different experience than your BIL. I wouldn't worry about a meeting and if it should get uncomfortable, walk out. It's YOUR vacation.

Jim Ricks

 

[Conan]

At most Wyndhams, the check-in desk sends you to a second desk for your parking pass. That's where they solicit you for an update/information session.

We fell for that once (in Nashville, where the fellow came to our room to lie to us and insult us for not buying from him). Now we just say no.

 

[theo]

Relax, don't worry...

I am buying a week on the resale market with VRI. ...What is the resort after? Will I be bothered on my vacation with a meeting to find out what I paid or have to listen to a sales presentation?

As pointed out already by others, as an owner using your owned week you will never be required to attend any "owner's updates". If any such update meeting is conducted at all at Fox Run (or at any other timeshare facility on the planet), your attendance is purely voluntary. Also, rest assured that any such meeting (if conducted at all) will not involve VRI, which is merely the management company for the facility.

There is no circumstance under which you ever have to disclose to anyone the price you paid for a resale purchase. Sometimes (...certainly not always) that information can be deduced with relative ease from info in (...or found in the magins of) recorded deeds, which are public records, but there is no circumstance or scenario in which you would ever have to provide or disclose that information to any sales weasel anywhere.

 

[puppymommo]

He told me that when they get to the resort a meeting is always setup. The resort does not try to sell them more points or weeks. What the resort wants to know is what they paid on the resale market for the points.

That is interesting. My experience with Wyndham has been exactly the opposite, they always try to get us to buy more points, and they have never asked us how much we paid for our resale points. The last saleman I had (in San Francisco) tried to tell me that I couldn't get good exchanges with my resale points. I almost laughed in his face. How did he think we got into the Canterbury in the first place!

What bothers me even more than the hardsell sales pitch, I think, is the insistance that it is not a sales pitch but an "owner update" or a "survey".