What is the general opinion of TimeSharing Today? Is it worth the money?
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Good magazine with a real focus
It is a truly Independent magazine for timeshare owner/wannabe's. They used toi have an active website for discussions but, as noted, that doesn't seem very active anymore. The magazine is well worth the cost if you plan to, own a timeshare or simply want to read about them.
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I've been a subscriber since 1998. There was a few years when we had a competition as to who would read it first, but as time went on the interest has waned a bit. I still plan on subscribing and I still do get around to reading it but the news for the most part is old and what difference does a few extra days make? I was also rather active for years on their online bulletin boards. It's now down to one basic board and activity is very low.
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Any other good timeshare publications out there?
We have subscribed to Timesharing Today for several years, and we always look forward to reading it. Some of the articles by timeshare travelers describing trips they have taken and resorts they have visited can be kind of "folksy" or trivial ("the 60 watt bulbs in the bedroom lamps was not bright enough to read by"), but generally are pretty good. Articles written by timeshare professionals (such as resale brokers) usually present good information. There are 8 resort "report cards" in each issue, compiled from reader responses, and given a score on a 10 point scale. On their website, all of the hundreds of resorts with report card scores can be seen in order of scores. There is also a large classified section, with resales and rentals listed by state in the U.S. and by country internationally.
Timesharing Today is a very good magazine for timeshare owners, and very different from RCI's Endless Vacation and II's Intervalworld, which are more like travel magazines.
Question: Does anyone know of any other timeshare magazines on the market? We receive quarterly brochures from developers of our resorts: ILX, Shell, Sunterra. But these are kind of like advertising pieces and activity guides. If there are any other generic timeshare pubs out there other than Timesharing Today, we don't know about them.
DDI Par
Birdies are better, but par is good.
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I have a problem with their current issue. It contains an article about Timeshare Relief and a large ad. The article kinda recommends the stupid company in the end. I read that last night with horror. If you really cannot afford the maintenance fees and do not use your week, advertise it free, you will get rid of it. That company charges several years of maintenance fees or $3,495 to take your timeshare off your hands.
The weeks are then sold by a company that oddly has the initials VIN, which is very close to VININC that many of the ebay resellers have as part of their email addresses: Ochoa brothers, Laman, Bonefissh and many others. I have always felt that these guys were one in the same. Where can you get some person, so sick of their timeshare, to give you money to take it off of their hands? I want to take these weeks myself. Look how many of these resellers have Hawaii weeks. Some people actually pay them $3,495 to take a Hawaii timeshare. I guess I am in the wrong business.
Even blue/green weeks have some value for last-minute trades. I look at RCI availability late at night with my blue week and see lots of great trades, some Hawaii, some in our own mountains, lots in Orlando. IF those of us who are timeshare savvy would be willing to take these blue weeks, we could advertise in Timesharing Today that we will be happy to take them off of their hands, FOR FREE! We could start a company, owned by all of the timeshare lovers here. What a rental pool we could have!
Speaking of rentals, this TST issue talked about rental/sale sites and included www.myresortnetwork.com in the article and a few others I have not even used or seen before. There was a noticeable lack of sites, no mention of redweek (though they paid for an ad in the magazine) or www.vacationtimesharerentals.com If you write an article, it is best to include ALL information out there. A simple Google search pulls up www.vacationtimesharerentals.com above all others, and listing on the site is free. I thought that article had some pretty lame advice.
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Originally posted by Icc5 View PostWe also enjoy reading it. It seems to gather information from many sources and lays it out in a consise, easy to read format.
Bart
Hope to get it tomorrow!!!!!LARRY
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