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Timeshare Presentations – The Newest Trap

September 21, 2011

It’s a well-known fact these days that timeshares a scam. Who isn’t aware of the mass exodus of timeshare owners desperate to get rid of the timeshare strapped to their back? Yet every day more people sign up for timeshares as if maintenance fees and special assessments just don’t exist.

In this turbulent economy, we know it’s not possible that thousands of Americans simply don’t care about what they spend.  So we started asking questions. How is it possible that people are still falling for the tricks of timeshare salesmen?

Unfortunately, the answers are even sadder than the statistics of families losing their homes and savings accounts on account of their timeshare bills. Whereas most sales industries have heavy regulations to keep them from being obviously deceptive and manipulative, timeshare industries have managed to skate under the radar, and now run free to do whatever they want.

Often, it turns out, timeshare companies use high pressure tactics to sell their customers. Recent timeshare presentation stories include employees and salesmen hidden as other resort guests, salesmen getting customers drunk before attempting to sell to them, and refusing to let customers leave even after the allotted time has passed.

So how do you survive a timeshare presentation?

Our first tip: don’t go! No matter what they offer you, timeshare presentations are traps. Salesmen will use anything from emotional manipulation to fear in order to get you to sign up. There’s very little regulations on what timeshare salesmen can and can’t do, so you have to expect everything and anything from them.

The best defense is a good offense, so if you’re determined to go, walk in prepared. Don’t be come in expecting that the timeshare companies will give you real advice or seriously consider whether or not you can afford their product; they’re there to meet a quota and nothing else. You have to be prepared to explain to yourself over and over why a timeshare isn’t for you.

There’s no good reason to walk into a timeshare presentation unless you want to lose a lot of money. But if you know of friends or family who are intent on going in and think they can stop themselves from being duped, remind them of the high pressure tactics salespeople are using, and how to avoid getting sucked into their own timeshare trap.

Maybe this advice came too late for you. If you can’t go back and stop yourself from buying a timeshare, you can stop yourself from paying your next maintenance fee. Call Direct Transfers today to get your timeshare out of your name – and out of your life.

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