Books about Timeshare

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

Went to Banes & Noble, and Saw this book
"The Everything Family Guide to Timeshares: Buy Smart, Avoid Pitfalls, And Enjoy Your Vacations to the Max! (Everything: Travel and History)" that is comeout at Aug 2006. Browse it a bit, think it is not bad, probably better than the 1st TS book the dummy one.

So it get to my interesting. Go to Amazon, and type Timeshare, found out about 48 books. A lot are from the past 3 years (2005 to 2007)

I guess the whole industrial is at the breaking points. Will see.

Jya-Ning

[Carol C Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Carol C]

Went to Banes & Noble, and Saw this book
"The Everything Family Guide to Timeshares: Buy Smart, Avoid Pitfalls, And Enjoy Your Vacations to the Max! (Everything: Travel and History)" that is comeout at Aug 2006. Browse it a bit, think it is not bad, probably better than the 1st TS book the dummy one.

So it get to my interesting. Go to Amazon, and type Timeshare, found out about 48 books. A lot are from the past 3 years (2005 to 2007)

I guess the whole industrial is at the breaking points. Will see.

Jya-Ning

I wonder how many TS4Ms and TUG people are among the authors. It would be nice to see one of our own cash in...I'm sure those books were written with extensive research using our free timeshare websites as source material.

[dgonza Member Find all posts View Profile Close dgonza]

Who needs the books when we have an awesome form like this!!!!

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

I doubt if any book on timesharing would make anyone a fortune. Most wouldn't look for one before buying and few would look for one after buying. Besides which, no one person knows it all. We have many area experts right here and the sum of this knowledge would dwarf anything written in a book. In that timesharing is changing adding and subtracting resorts and adding new concepts-any book would have the shelf life of a minimal memory desktop computer.

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

The book is different than a BBS, Blog because
1. it is organized to present the author's thought. To some, it is easier to figure out stuff this way. And someone may pick a book but not into any forum. It is just like resell, someone has no problem get to ebay and buy. Someone and majority will buy from local agent when they are vacation. And a bigger TS market is the one that buy from retail. So the more way you can reach different people, the more chance the concept becomes daily word.
2. It is tagged on general public. For forum, you have to be specified on TS to get to a forum like this. A book in lib. or in Barnes & Noble travel session can have a chance to be see by someone that just plan a trip. People that plan to go Williamsburg because they get a gateway from some TS company may not think about do a internet search about TS because they believe they will not buy may prepare to find out what to do in Williamsburg area and when saw a book like this may or may not browser it.
3. It is written by a profession writer, so although she is not expert, she will try to gather some info. To have someone willing to write a book like this and to have a publish company to put a book and try to sell in a Banes & Noble shelf, it means they think there is a market. And this is not the only book that come out.

In order to make TS a better, it needs to penertate to general public, it needs to be a daily word. When most people know a little about TS, and don't mind to give a cheap advice, it will be impossible to developer to sell it as black box.

Just some thoughts.

Jya-Ning

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

If your conclusions are correct then timeshare sales will decrease at the developer level, making new developments unfeasible.

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

I doubt if any book on timesharing would make anyone a fortune. Most wouldn't look for one before buying and few would look for one after buying. Besides which, no one person knows it all. We have many area experts right here and the sum of this knowledge would dwarf anything written in a book. In that timesharing is changing adding and subtracting resorts and adding new concepts-any book would have the shelf life of a minimal memory desktop computer.

No one can know it all! This is so true! I try and try to understand the various points systems. I want to choose one for us and plan to sell some weeks and put the cash toward points. But all the time I spend here has not helped me much. I still don't know what to do.

It is also what makes a timeshare salesperson look like a fool to those of us who know timeshare to see they are either lying or have no idea what they are talking about.

When people ask advice of me, when they see the various resorts we own, I spend a great deal of time explaining what I know, but I try not to go into too much detail. I don't want to type that long.

[bluka Member Find all posts View Profile Close bluka]

[QUOTE=tonyg;127254]I doubt if any book on timesharing would make anyone a fortune. Most wouldn't look for one before buying and few would look for one after buying.
Tony, I must be one of the most because I did in fact read the dummies book before i bought (resale of course) and even though the book itself was what it was there are some people that just cant understand the whole resale (or for that matter the whole timeshare concept!) they think that for some reason that if they buy resale they are getting an inferior product! (probably because of the sales presentation.) As hard as I try to steer people to the TS websites some just dont get it! At least the books are out there to give people some insight and at least SOME EDUCATION ? and maybe some solid reason to buy the great vacation opportunities that are out there for us. today friends of ours just came back from AZ and told us they bought a points program thru sunterra (SDK) and this was AFTER we had already told them about our resale purchase from marriott OF WHICH THEY ORIGINALLY BOUGHT AN EOY MARRIOTT IN 05! FROM THE DEVELOPER ! I dont understand if they just love throwing money away or if they think that buying developer is the only way to go? (if I tried to tell them abought recinding they would think i was nuts,) Maybe the books would at least give them the realization that there are other ways to buy ts then thru developers.

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

If your conclusions are correct then timeshare sales will decrease at the developer level, making new developments unfeasible.

I will use 2 examples
1. Disney. I believe even with people that very acknowledge the TS, they still buy it. It is live style, and sometimes, when it is a style, you can justify the cost anyway you like.
2. car. There are cars that cost more than a house, and cars that run less than 10k. It is stuff everyone can say something on it, yet it probably will take several experts to really tell which car is worth what, and we still see them sell.

When it becomes every day's wording, a live style, a necessary, the cost for sell will be reduce, the resell market can be stable. And although people know resell maybe cheaper, they feel they don't know enough to justify the risk/worry, and feel retail is the only way to go.

In fact, it just will make retail work more harder to get pay, but it will not make it disapper, nor will it guarantee higher resell or lower retail.

So I don't think there is conclusion yet. Although, in last year along, I saw 3 major newspaper has special columns on Timeshare (good and bad), I saw 2 financial analysts talk about Timeshare (good and bad).

It just a trend, like internet, ebay.

All I say is, it can help give the whole industrial a chance to move in a positive way. In the end, if general public still feel bad on it, or if major company choose to apply higher pressue on the customers, it may not make any difference.

Jya-Ning