posted 06-01-2005 19:40
My first experience was quite eye-opening. Fortunately for me the salesperson was very inept.He started out saying the Maryland Attorney General found they were doing nothing wrong. Some sales pitch. This made me very suspicious of course. Wondered how many complaints there were.
After touring a beautiful condo with marble fire place in the bedroom, we sat down to talk "price".
This was about 1978 and the starting price was $22,000.00. I paid that much for my house just 6 years before.
I had no idea what a timeshare was and he did nothing to educate me. After about 45 minutes of saying NO, he suddenly offered a price of $10,000.00. I asked where that property was located and he said it was the same condo.
You can imagine what was going through my mind being completely uninformed as to what a TS encompassed. First $22,000.00 then all of a sudden $10,000.00? What kind of sales pitch was this? Same condo for less than half just by saying NO?
He almost had me, except I kept thinking his first sentence about the Attorney General, is all I needed to know. It was some years later that I became aware he probably offered the first week in February for $10,000.00 (in Ocean City Md., obviously a heavy snow week. I've never been to the beach in heavy snow).
I stuck to my guns, and the answer NO - NO. He wound up the sales pitch by insulting me, saying I just WASTED HIS TIME so I could get the freebie. Some freebie, a motor bike that I would have to pay $300.00 shipping fee.
Thank goodness for this experience. It has served me well.
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