This Is A Hoot!!!

[charlie_m Member Find all posts View Profile Close charlie_m]

I needed a part time job just after having knee surgery, so I answered an ad for, of all places, CFI Westgate Las Vegas. They are currently selling Planet Hollywood, a nice but expensive project as I'm sure you all know.

The job was for "vacation booking agent" and I was led to believe that I would be returning calls from people who filled out a request for information and selling them mini-vacations. $149 for 3 days and a tour. Stay on property at the Planet Hollywood. Make a little money. Life is good.

Except that the people I had called never requested any information. They either were perusing the Westgate site and filled out some BS survey, or perhaps they were on the site and their IP addresses were revealed and......well who knows.

The kicker was I spent a week getting the rah rah training then 2 days on the phone getting hung up on, cursed out and even laughed at. So I went to the manager and asked her where the %^&#$ they got the leads, got a blank stare and came back the next day to pick up a check for the time I wasted.

I know this has nothing to do with all you timesharers out there, but I thought my fiasco would get a few laughs and maybe some pity.

Que sera.

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

And you wonder why they say: Honesty is the best policy. Not Westgate of course !

[charlie_m Member Find all posts View Profile Close charlie_m]

David Siegel is way up on the scum scale. Too bad when you have a nice product that you have to dummy down to sell it.

Like I said, no conceptual commonality with serious timesharing but an unfortunate blip. Just looking to make a little "innocent" coin and thought it was a legit gig.

Thanks Tony for your 2 cents.

[vintner Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close vintner]

Charlie, I thought with your background, you would be good at this, or at least more accepting of this type of a job. I am wrong at understanding your background?

[timeos2 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close timeos2]

Stay away from the PH Tower of Terror and all Wastegates

Wastegate is Wastegate no matter where they build their usually incredibly gaudy, cheaply furnished faux Italian style resorts. The Planet Hollywood Tower of Terror may end up taking the prize as the very worst of the worst before they are done. And I still shake my head when I recall that at least one seasoned timeshare veteran has been taken in by this very group at this very location. I'm not at all surprised to hear of your experience or that questionable sources are involved.

[charlie_m Member Find all posts View Profile Close charlie_m]

Sure, this job is below my abilities. Talking to people who alledgedly wanted information pertaining to a resort (or whatever) seemed doable. Like I said I needed a p/t gig for awhile. Don't want to do tours on crutches. Just had my knee scoped. In fact, I don't want to do tours period. But income is income, and how many of you wouldn't do whatever you could to bring home the bacon? Or some bacon.... Or at least some pig sh!t....

Unfortunately, Westgate lied to me and to everyone in their "boiler room". I explained how. Just another crappy way to market the product. Trying to run games by people and doing it in an obviously "unacceptable" way is below my usual high standards. Besides there isn't enough sales talent in that place to fill a bottle cap.

I guess I'm not more accepting of this type of a job and thought I'd make light of personal disaster. ...

[1950bing Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close 1950bing]

Remember that timeshare places sells owners list names. Buy one or fill something out and before long everyone in the business knows you are someway interested in the world of timeshares. Heck, I still get stuff in the mail and a phone call will slip through every so often and I got out almost four years ago now!

[vintner Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close vintner]

We were introduced to Bluegreen through a cold call. While we did not buy BG though that offering, we did do the tour, and had a nice week vacation, part in the hotel, part in camping at a nice Wisconsin state park.

That may have been the last time we went camping We bought Bluegreen and haven't been camping since.

[charlie_m Member Find all posts View Profile Close charlie_m]

I've always thought Bluegreen was a niche timeshare, appealing to the "outdoorsmen" but they really blew it on the Vegas property. As I've noted before, they built the resort directly adjacent to McCarron and under an occasionally used flight pattern for landing jets. Wouldn't want to be there when one of those 737's is a hundred yards on top of the place.

Anyone interested, PM me and I'll send you digitals of a Southwest jet getting ready to land.

That all said, their resorts don't seem to be same old same old, and that's a good thing. If I was going to do tours I wouldn't have a problem there, except during a plane landing.

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

I've always thought Bluegreen was a niche timeshare, appealing to the "outdoorsmen" but they really blew it on the Vegas property. As I've noted before, they built the resort directly adjacent to McCarron and under an occasionally used flight pattern for landing jets. Wouldn't want to be there when one of those 737's is a hundred yards on top of the place.

Anyone interested, PM me and I'll send you digitals of a Southwest jet getting ready to land.

That all said, their resorts don't seem to be same old same old, and that's a good thing. If I was going to do tours I wouldn't have a problem there, except during a plane landing.

Sounds like I95 near the Ft. Laudedale airport. Even though I have driven it for years it is stil unsettling to drive under one of the landing jets which I get to do regularly.

[charlie_m Member Find all posts View Profile Close charlie_m]

Could you imagine owning that little piece of heaven? And staying there for a week?

Think I'll have to mosy on down and check on the construction....