Does Timeshare Work?

I am not going to be one that simply knocks timeshare for the sake of doing so. I am sure it has some advantages; but I worry when I read “when you buy timeshare on the resale market, you are already ahead of the game, as used properties are significantly less expensive than new ones.” (Consider a Timeshare for your family Vacations, by David Chandler).

Writers on timeshare seem to agree that one is lucky to get 50 cents on the dollar with a resale. Some, very cynical about the benefits, say that the chances of timeshare sales-personnel buying into their own product is almost nil. Most categorically claim it is 0%. Not sure if this is quite the case, but people are becoming very disillusioned; no mistake about that. It has become expensive and there is no guarantee of being able to just take off at your specified week; and trust me swapping doesn’t always work. School holidays in various countries are different, and annual fees are on the increase.

Visiting Youtube was also an eye-opener; people who were once in the timeshare industry, and selling this product, openly speak against it. I am sure that if you can afford around $50 000 for a top week, you will have all the advantage and will be able to book and swap weeks.

But remember that you will then be paying very high monthly maintenance fees to cover overheads and office furniture, probably also a booking fee, and you are locked into one only week of the year. Of course if you are enormously wealthy and end up buying four or five or more weeks, that’s okay. But who’s got $100 000 for a couple of weeks?

Also, you will be locking into the resorts that particular company promotes; and only those. What if you wanted to visit a country not on their list? What if you wanted to send friends or family on a guest week somewhere? What if you simply could not afford the monthly maintenance fees or the annual fees? What if you didn’t have the money up front, and were offered the finance option that comes with every single timeshare purchase, but then realised you would have to pay around 17 percent finance charges?

All of these are major obstacles. I remember going to a timeshare presentation in Cape Town, South Africa, some years ago. I was shocked at their hard-sell tactics; they got our backs up against the wall, and simply could not take no for an answer. Now I realise why they were so desperate. The product simply does not give people what they want.

What if you found an option that did away with all the above disadvantages. Would you take a look? A company offering a lifetime membership at a fraction of the cost, with unlimited access fifty-two weeks of the year to thousands of resorts in 55 countries around the world. With no monthly maintenance fees or levies.

I know there is an alternative. Check it out, and think twice before selecting the timeshare option: a simple search will give you lots of evidence that people are looking for something far more flexible.

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Michael Klerck is a writer and winner of the Mondi Paper Magazine Writer’s Award for work in Men’s Health. He is also an avid promoter of the best luxury resorts membership in the world today. Visit his luxuryresortsVIP.biz and see the excellent movie.

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Why the hell do people buy timeshares? I mean you pay anywhere from $5000 to $150,000 for these properties that you can only stay at 1 to 2 times yearly…oh and sometimes you can buy a fractional one and only be allowed to go there every other year! Then when you get sick of going to your new purchase probably after the 1st or 2nd year if you want to go somewhere else you have to pay a transfer fee to transfer your week so you can enjoy a new destination. On top of all that crap you have to pay a yearly maintenance fee for the ownership privilege that you “had to have”. Am I crazy or Am I missing something here? The only thing that you own are the bills!

What if there were a better way? By the sounds of it it doesn’t seem all that hard to make happen. Anyhow… I came across this company 2 months ago after researching online opportunities and home based businesses. They are the marketing arm of a 21 year old company (I can’t mention the name) that has been selling high priced memberships to luxury vacation resorts to the “well-off” people of the US, Canada and Mexico for, you guessed it…21 years. I say “well-off” because I thought rich or upper middle class or high class didn’t sound right…you get my drift? Let’s continue…these memberships would sell for $15,000-$25,000 depending on the type of resort quality that you wanted how many weeks you wanted per year etc. kind of like a timeshare right? In 1999 they opened it’s doors and revamped the way this company sold their memberships. The new cost for these memberships is now $1595 for a 3 year and $3095 for a LIFETIME membership. Drastically reducing the cost of this product and implementing a commission plan so people like you and me could afford something like this and allowing us to earn from selling other people this same high quality product. Not only earn but earn BIG. Each sale earns you $500 on the 3 year membership and $1000 on the life time membership!

They were able to drop the price so dramatically due to three reasons.

1. The ability to market this in such a way that the “company” sold hundreds of thousands more memberships due to the internet and it’s explosive growth.

2. They were able to sell these because it’s a high demand product and they do not waste cash on custom promotional products for their marketing efforts (who doesn’t want a vacation AND an inexpensive 5 star resort no less)

3. They turned ALL the buyers and users of this product into enthusiastic sellers and marketers due to the high commissions.

Lets do the math here. If you want to take your family on a week long vacation to a beach resort anywhere you are going to pay roughly $189 per night per room or maybe say $249 for a two bedroom that’s $1743 for the week one time! If you don’t want to get caught in the timeshare trap then do your research and for God sakes don’t buy a timeshare it’s only a big pain in the…

Thanks for reading,

Pete Davenport

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It’s Vacation time! Yep, winter is here and it’s time to find that perfect resort, timeshare, vacation home, hotel, tent, or RV. There’s lots of ways to get out of town and experience someplace different. And that’s the point I want to make; about someplace different. Shouldn’t we all have a chance to experience other countries and see what adventures these far aff places have for us? Shouldn’t we all get to have a variety in the places we choose to vacation?

In exploring the possibility of buying into a resort in another country, I was considering buying into a friend’s beach home community in another country. I am friends with the owner and I had been hearing about this incredible opportunity for years. I was fascinated by the possibility of owning a place in another country. I was actually considering it very much. I had been speaking with other people I know who had bought property in that country and was very encouraged by them and I had no reservations right away about buying the property except for a few things that crept up later and were now on my mind. For one, it was a lot of money to invest in this new community. I secondly thought about having to maintain this property on top of already maintaining two of my properties right here in my town, and that was enough already. There were going to be expenses that were not yet evident, but likey! I also thought of the possibility of hurricanes and other disasters occurring to this country, as it is in “hurricane alley”. There were definite considerations with owning a property in another country such as this.

I explored another option and leaned toward something I thought was a bit more safe, a timeshare? I looked into it and found that timeshares at the resorts that were close to where I was considering buying, were approximately $3-$7,000 and much more for others. This was much less than buying an actual property in another country. But I had some reservations with the timeshares as well. My main one was what I mentioned earlier, experiencing someplace different was my main reason to get away in the first place. With a timeshare, I was limited to my one timeshare and seeing the same place over and over again for as long as I was in posession of it. I would have had some ability to swap. But this swapping is not often easy or able to be done when and where you want it to happen. Plus, the timeshares came with yearly maintenance fees.

It was during this time when I searched and found out about a timeshare alternative. It is based around a network of 5000 4 and 5 star resorts located around the world in 60 countries, with high end equipment like a stereo cabinet in the living room. The concept is different in these ways, there is no owning of any particular unit, all resorts in the network are available to the member, thier family and guests, all resorts are available during any time of year. The ability to travel to 60 countries and be a member of 5000 resorts, is a new option and alternative to vacationing.

Between the time I was considering this property and now, that country I was considering buying property in was directly hit by a massive hurricane! I was very glad I had no property down there to worry about.

There are often alternatives to any one way of doing things if we just look for them. Don’t think you are stuck with the norm. Today, there are more choices and higher quality ones too. If you are looking into vacation options, find out all you can before buying into just one place! See something different ever time!

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Eric Latocki
Internet Business Owner
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