You Know You're Addicted To Timesharing When.....

[Linda VH Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Linda VH]

Thanks Beags - I lurk but rarely post.

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

....when you sit on the patio overlooking the beach at your current timeshare vacation spot with your coffee and laptop checking II and RCI and some of the independents for the next exchange.

Joy

OMG, I've totally done this.

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

...........You feel like you are getting totally ripped off if you are subjected to staying in a motel room in Orlando because you couldn't get a last call or bonus week. (like next week).

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

You spend a night in a hotel traveling from home to the resort, and wonder if there wasn't some resort nearby that you should have stayed at to avoid the wrestling team that was there for a tournament. OMG, kids running back and forth all night. Ahh the piece and queit of your own chalet.

[Beaglemom3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beaglemom3]

You can divide by 7 quickly to determine what nightly rate you're getting for the 2 bed, 2 bath with kitchen timeshare (factoring in MFs & exchange fees) versus the small, non-timeshare hotel room with cube refrigerator that is on hotels.com .


You know better than to buy in Mexico after reading threads on this site.


You dread the end of each year as you know that along with death & taxes, MFs are unavoidable.

You check out the Ex-Ops thread on this forum before checking your email messages.( You know who you are.)

This is the only place where you'll ever post "Rescind ! Rescind ! Rescind !"


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

Every time you are checking in into resort your child is asking: "Mom, do we own here?"

[Timeshare junkie Member Find all posts View Profile Close Timeshare junkie]

You attend a ts presentation, and see a salesman going through the paperwork with a couple at another table and think to yourself 'poor fools, don't they know what they can pick up the exact same thing online for?'

Then you remember how you came to own your first timeshare. Remember. 90 minutes to free Dixie Stampede tickets. But it was really 4.5 hours to $15,000 Dixie Stampede tickets. At 17.9%.

Now here's the thing - as you were originally getting suckered-in back in 1986, was there a guy looking at you while you were sitting at that table with the amazing uber-manager who could write numbers up-side-down thinking to himself 'poor fools, don't they know........

tj

[Beaglemom3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beaglemom3]

You attend a ts presentation, and see a salesman going through the paperwork with a couple at another table and think to yourself 'poor fools, don't they know what they can pick up the exact same thing online for?'

Then you remember how you came to own your first timeshare. Remember. 90 minutes to free Dixie Stampede tickets. But it was really 4.5 hours to $15,000 Dixie Stampede tickets. At 17.9%.

Now here's the thing - as you were originally getting suckered-in back in 1986, was there a guy looking at you while you were sitting at that table with the amazing uber-manager who could write numbers up-side-down thinking to himself 'poor fools, don't they know........

tj

.............. when your screen name is "Timeshare Junkie" !

[rapmarks Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close rapmarks]

How about your sitting on a lounge chair at the Mayan Palace in Mexico smoking a Cigar and having a drink with about 20 family members and a
TS4m's Member named Pittle walks by and says hey your BIGFRANK Now both me and my family got a kick out of that one. Thanks Phyllis

How about standing on a train/trolley platform in New Orleans and have someone say, are you rapmarks? (also at a welcome breakfast)

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

When you sell two weeks then buy another or even worse when you are llike me and sell two weeks and buy three new weeks.

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

Then you remember how you came to own your first timeshare. Remember. 90 minutes to free Dixie Stampede tickets. But it was really 4.5 hours to $15,000 Dixie Stampede tickets. At 17.9%.

tj

You know, I went to Dixie Stampede today (great show by the way) and paid almost full price (got a $2 coupon from a magazine) and come to think of it no one here at Silverleaf has made me any offers to hear any TS presentation.

I wonder if they see my big "resale" sign hanging over my head like a neon sign. Hmmmm.

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

You can divide by 7 quickly to determine what nightly rate you're getting for the 2 bed, 2 bath with kitchen timeshare (factoring in MFs & exchange fees) versus the small, non-timeshare hotel room with cube refrigerator that is on hotels.com .

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I do this all the time. I didn't know it was a sign of addiction. So sad.

[Beaglemom3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beaglemom3]

You take time out of your vacation week to take photos and notes - not to send to friends or family, but for the review you'll write and submit to the forum when you get back.

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

You are packing for the vacation but all excited about an exchange you just made for two years from now.

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

You start getting anxiety attacks because spring break is only 9 months away and you haven't made an exchange for it yet.