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[Dolphin Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dolphin]

Hi,
My name is Rox and I live in Canada.
I stumbled on this website while researching timeshares and vacation packages. As a new member I'm hoping to gain knowledge and move out of the newbie group

[happymum Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close happymum]

Welcome Dolphin! You will find a wealth of information here, as well as a group of enthusiastic timeshare addicts. There are quite a few of us Canucks too, eh.

[Dolphin Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dolphin]

Thank You happymum,
Hopefully on Monday I will have great news about the rescind that was initiated on August 26, 2008.

[bezerk Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close bezerk]

Welcome and good luck dolphin....you are gonna love this site!

[Dolphin Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dolphin]

Thank you, it's been extremely stressful dealing with this company. We purchased a vacation plan in December 2008 and were presented all kinds of exciting information. We were shown a brand new model with two units, separated by a door and assured to expect this every time we booked our week. This is not what we discovered when arriving at the resort. Our unit did not even come close. The resort asked us to view their new model and answer a three page survey and as a thank you, a free breakfast and $75 credit card. We were ok with this since it is with the same company and we wanted to speak with them about our current plan. After way too many hours we purchased what we thought was an upgrade to only find out we now have two plans...the one we bought in December and this one. So on Monday we expect some resolution to this second purchase.

[Jya-Ning Silver Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close Jya-Ning]

Welcome. Dolphin.

You did send your rescind through US mail right?

Jya-Ning

[Dolphin Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dolphin]

Hi Jya-Ning,
My conversation on Friday with the Manager is that she will send me an email confirming this new purchase is cancelled and refund our full deposit. We've been told repeatedly since August 26, 2008 that we do not have to send a letter since we demonstrated enough documentation prior to the 7th day to warrant the cancellation. I've been on the phone daily with both departments, the one in Williamsburg and the other in Fort Lauderdale. It may be too late to do anything with the first purchase from December 2008. We are seeing that what purchased is not what we can get and we paid a high premium for this plan. I blame ourselves because we believed what the sales people presented would be the truth. We had no reason to suspect this was fraudulent or misleading.

[hulakaren Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close hulakaren]

Hi,
My name is Karen and my DH and I are currently in the process of buying a Hyatt resale. Just waiting in anticipation! This will be our first TS. We never thought we were timeshare people at all, but look at us now!

[khdem Member Find all posts View Profile Close khdem]

New Members

My name is Kay...I am now waiting on my purchases of Bluegreen points from Boca Jim and Ebay to finalize...should have points within a month. I can hardly wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Kay

[Yesdogjr Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Yesdogjr]

Hello All,

I am very new to the idea of timeshares and am eager to learn more about them. My family and I are into all kinds of hobbies from scuba diving to snowboarding. I hope that if we buy a timeshare it will meet all our needs.

[bezerk Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close bezerk]

Hello All,

I am very new to the idea of timeshares and am eager to learn more about them. My family and I are into all kinds of hobbies from scuba diving to snowboarding. I hope that if we buy a timeshare it will meet all our needs.

Welcome yesdogjr......you came to the right place you sure will learn a lot here.

We sure love timesharing and for us it is the only way to vacation.....have fun learning!

[Syed Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Syed]

[QUOTE=Quarterbore;1]About TimeshareForums.com

I just registered this domain over the weekend 10-Apr-2005 and I am going to be working to get everything started over the next couple days. This website is being setup as a timeshare community website where visitors will be able to talk about their timeshares and vacations as well as discussions about how to buy and sell a timeshare. We hope that over time that this can become a place for timeshare reviews, evaluations, as well as a resource to allow OWNERS AND SELLERS to directly buy, sell or trade their timeshare or a weeks vacation.

About the webmaster:

My father got us into timeshares back in the 1980s and his first was purchased through the sales pitch. It is a great unit and my father has used the unit every year since that time and has gone to many resorts BUT it was expensive! My father learned his lesson and purchased a second week from an owner that just wanted out and it was very obvious that this second hand timeshare had the same tradability and usefulness as his (Est $18,000) timeshare he bought in the mid 1980s but he paid a more modest $3K for the second week.

When I was younger and still in college as well as after I had graduated I had used my Father's units for a few vacations and attended a few sales pitches over the years. I know VERY WELL how tempting those sales pitches are and let's be honest that the sales people that are working at you attend lots of classes and their income is dependent on them being able to get you to buy a unit they are selling!

When I started a family of my own I knew we wanted to get into timeshares ourselves and we own two units now. We own one week in Killington Vermont in February, which is our annual ski vacation, plus we purchased a second week in the Pocono’s for an end of the summer vacation. Both of these units were purchased from individuals even though our second week was found through a realtor. We paid $5500 for the Killington week, which was an exceptional deal, and about $3500 for the Pocono’s week. These are deeded properties with fixed weeks and they have adequate room and facilities for our family and with three kids we would never want to have to stay a week in a motel somewhere!

In my honest opinion, timeshares are a great way to vacation but there is obviously a right way and right reasons for wanting a timeshare and then there are wrong ways to get into timeshares!

My name is Syed. Cheri(my wife) and I live in the beautiful island of Maui. We have both been in the timeshare industry for over 30 years and are licensed realtors specializing in resales. We own three timeshares-- a Hilton, one in Mexico and one in Hawaii and love vactioning the timeshare way. We have used our Hilton Honors points in London, Cannes, Amsterdam, New York, Maldives and others. We have also exchanged thru RCI, II and SFX. I have enjoyed reading comments on your site and look forward to sharing my thoughts with everyone. Aloha!

[philsfan Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close philsfan]

My name is Syed. Cheri(my wife) and I live in the beautiful island of Maui. We have both been in the timeshare industry for over 30 years and are licensed realtors specializing in resales. We own three timeshares-- a Hilton, one in Mexico and one in Hawaii and love vactioning the timeshare way. We have used our Hilton Honors points in London, Cannes, Amsterdam, New York, Maldives and others. We have also exchanged thru RCI, II and SFX. I have enjoyed reading comments on your site and look forward to sharing my thoughts with everyone. Aloha!

Hi Syed, welcome to ts4ms from a happy customer of yours from the past.

[Syed Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Syed]

[QUOTE=Yesdogjr;277017]Hello All,

I am very new to the idea of timeshares and am eager to learn more about them. My family and I are into all kinds of hobbies from scuba diving to snowboarding. I hope that if we buy a timeshare it will meet all our needs

Consider looking into Marriott, Hyatt and Starwood timeshares. They have properties in both scuba and snowboarding resorts, as well as other types of recreation.

[LesDeRing Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close LesDeRing]

New and confused

My ame is Les and I own about 4 months worth of a Marriott timeshare and I desperatly want to get rid of it. My wife and I are trying to buy some property in Colorado to retire at and we don't use this timeshare anymore. Can someone point me in the right direction as to how you post this in the classifieds section of this website?