Time Share!

My husband and I went to this trade show with our kids. I filled out every entry form you could find to win things. I get a call later that week about how I have won a few things, they had left the message on our answer machine. I understood it was a sales call of some sort, I was interested in the free gifts, but not enough to return the phone call. A couple days later they had called again, I was working my dispatch job and answered the phone. She was a real nice girl, telling me about this $2000 online shopping spree that I have won, where you can buy anything online that you can buy at a normal department store except food. Then they are going to give me a $50 gas card and $50 food card. She also goes on to tell me that she understands people are not buying timeshare right now but the reason they want me to go is to get "Word Of Mouth" out about their about the resort.

LOL Ya I will get the word of mouth out there alright! I go up there and yes the resort was beautiful. The guy who talked to us was very friendly until we told him that we don't make impulse decisions and although it all sounds like a great deal we would have to research it some more. HOWEVER if you didn't sign right up, right then all the discounts they showed you would not be valid after you walked out the door. At 2:30 and after the 90 minutes were up, I told our host that we needed to leave by 3pm that our daughter had a birthday party she needed to get to. I thought he was understanding because he brought us right up stairs to talk about the price. WELL, he goes on and on about the cost of the timeshare and ya it sounded great. But this fella wouldn't shut up, I had to repeat myself 3 times that we had to go. He really thought he had us in the bag for a sale. Its now 3pm we sign this paper saying we can't go back up for 2 years for another tour. FINE BY ME!!

Now we must check out, we get our gifts. I look though them while we are rushing back home to get our daughter. The gas card was not a card, it was a form you needed to either fill out and mail or fill out on their website. Then you need to print out these vouchers, save your gas receipt and send them in. They, in time will mail you a check of some sort for the gas. I was a bit annoyed by this, I felt that was a bit misleading seeing out the woman who set us up said it was a gas card. They give you this voucher because they know 90% of the people who get it are not going to bother with it.

Once we get our daughter to the party, pick our our son and finally get something to eat we go home. I get right online to see what goodies were waiting for us to buy with the $2000. YA they think I am a big time fool with this one. It is a bunch of SHIT, things that you wouldn't find in a department store and not only that but you had to pay shipping for each item. I am glad for the company I work for because I understand shipping costs now better then ever. They were charging $14 to ship one very small item and each item was around $7-$14 alone for shipping. I am not stupid, I know it would not cost that much to ship items to someone. Not only that but you couldn't find any regular department store items on this site. So the short of it is they lied to me. They worked it up to be something that it is not! Working with customer service, being a consumer, I understand these are very bad practices for any business.

Lastly, I looked up some timeshare at that same lodge. As I said it was beautiful, http://www.northstarinn.com/ , as you can see for yourself. Anyway, the timeshare that he offered us at first was around 17,000, then he came back with 9,000 and when he still didn't have us he ended with $5000. What I found online was the same resort for $2900 and anual maintence fees of around $500. That is not bad for a place that is only an hour and thirty minutes for our house and we would def. go and stay for a week. I have 4 snowboarders at home and this was sooooo close to Killington. I see now why all discounts are taken away after you leave, because once you get home and go on the internet you can find it cheaper then what they themselves are selling it for.