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Fast shuffle at Wyndham Ocean Ridge, Edisto, SC
DO NOT ACCEPT ANY “GIFTS” when signing into a Wyndham owned to timeshare! We are RCI weeks members and we exchanged for the Wyndham Ocean Ridge II resort in Edisto Beach, South Carolina. When we got there the registration process was extremely fast and well choreographed. It was only after we got into the timeshare and read the documents and we found out that we had signed up, for a $50 gift card, to attend a "members orientation" – a.k.a. sales presentation! If you did not attend the $50 would be charged back to your credit card. The sales presentation was over two days. A shrimp boil in the evening and the actual presentation the next morning. By obligating ourselves to this presentation we lost usable vacation time.
The main thrust of their sales presentation was that you, as a weeks, owner were going to be squeezed out of timeshare availability by people who were converting their weeks to points. I do not believe this to be the case. The pitch was this: we would be given X number of points for our weeks based on a set of variables which the salesman would not enumerate at the time. Then we would have to buy the exact number of points that Wyndham decided our weeks were worth at a cost (for us) of approximately $10,000. So basically we would be paying for our timeshare twice to convert to points.
When I asked if I could record the sales presentation I was denied, when I asked if I could have the notes the salesman used to demonstrate his pitch I was again denied. I believe this to be based on the fact that what he was saying was untrue. Needless to say we did not bite.
SUMMARY:
1. Do not accept anything "free" during the registration process.
2. They tried to scare us into converting weeks to points, at the cost of thousands of dollars, by telling us we would be "squeezed out" of location availability w/o data to back it up.
The main thrust of their sales presentation was that you, as a weeks, owner were going to be squeezed out of timeshare availability by people who were converting their weeks to points. I do not believe this to be the case. The pitch was this: we would be given X number of points for our weeks based on a set of variables which the salesman would not enumerate at the time. Then we would have to buy the exact number of points that Wyndham decided our weeks were worth at a cost (for us) of approximately $10,000. So basically we would be paying for our timeshare twice to convert to points.
When I asked if I could record the sales presentation I was denied, when I asked if I could have the notes the salesman used to demonstrate his pitch I was again denied. I believe this to be based on the fact that what he was saying was untrue. Needless to say we did not bite.
SUMMARY:
1. Do not accept anything "free" during the registration process.
2. They tried to scare us into converting weeks to points, at the cost of thousands of dollars, by telling us we would be "squeezed out" of location availability w/o data to back it up.
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