An OF's Advice

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

If you have not purchased a timeshare yet, and somehow you have found your way here looking for guidance, and your head is now spinning, and you respect an OF's perspective, the worst advice being given right now is to buy . . . anything, any where.

If you already own, the second worst advice is to sell.

Let the dust settle.

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

This is so not true.

Just don't buy any old week in mugwump swamp.
Do your homework and buy what makes sense for you.

Right now points make sense (for me and many others).
That's why RCI is trying their hand at it again.

For the record, I love RCI points and own at V V Parkway.
That dreaded, in cahootz with RCI resort, that gives me lots of vacation options that a weeks owner will never see.
What a crime. What a crisis.

People want options other than just a week a year.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

see OP

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

the worst advice being given right now is to buy . . . anything, any where.

I think that's probably correct. Realistically, for most people, a timeshare probably isn't a very good idea from strictly a dollars and cents perspective. The chances that you can buy a "good" timeshare that *does* make sense, just by random happenstance, are essentially zero. To figure out the difference between the good ones and the not-so-good-ones takes a pretty serious commitment to learning how the whole thing works---not just today, but how market forces are likely to evolve the system going forward. Most people are probably better off using that extra time working overtime, or consulting, or doing whatever else one does to earn money. They are likely to earn more extra money for vacation than they would save by owning a "smart" timeshare.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

and once you learn the answers du jour, they will be irrelevant

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

http://www.timeshareforums.com/forum...2-19-11-a.html

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

http://www.timeshareforums.com/forum...2-19-11-a.html

I did not have access to open this link?

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

I did not have access to open this link?

If you will post a few more times, you will, but here's a one time exception

The following was posted as an "Ex Op", something that is considered to be an exceptional Exchange Opportunity.

The Inn at SilverCreek
ISC
Granby , CO , USA
Resort Details & Photos

Jan 15 2011 - Jan 22 2011
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Feb 05 2011 - Feb 12 2011
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Feb 19 2011 - Feb 26 2011
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[Randy Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Randy]

thanks

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Wow, 9 posts in four years?!

C'mon, for that he oughta be allowed to see Ex Ops.

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

Wow, 9 posts in four years?!

C'mon, for that he oughta be allowed to see Ex Ops.

And why should he even bother since there ain't nothing worth getting anyway. Right?

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

I was always told it was better to listen.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

I was always told it was better to listen.

Sometimes it is better to keep your mouth shut and let folks think you are an idiot, rather than to speak up, and remove all doubt.

To repeat my OP, caveat emptor. There is some bad advice being offerred here the past week.

Before doing anything, whether getting involved with timesharing for the first time, or "re-doing" your involvement, let the dust settle.