My fiancee was contacted few months ago for a vacation package of 3 days and 2 nights in Destin Florida, only $119. The requirement was to have 90min sales presentation with Fairfield Resorts.
We spent 2 days in Destin using this package. We played golf on our own expense. This package included 2 nights at Holiday Inn Express, which we could get almost at the same price without this "vacation package". The Fairfield Resort sales presentation was yesterday at Majestic Sun time share condo center at 9am. We were required to show two ID's both me and my fiancee... We were greeted my sales presentative Matt... He didn't offer his last name or business card... Or any ID!!!
First Matt wanted to know how much money we are spending every year for our vacations. Sorry to say, we couldn't put a number, since we both combine our business trips with vacations and also use our frequent flyer miles. He showed us lot of fancy pictures and sample of website showing Fairfield's vacation resorts all over the world. Since we both have been doing travelling all our lives this didn't impress either of us.
Well, the deal is this:
We put down $40,000 of our hard earned money and buy 300,000 yearly "points", which allows us to use any of Fairfield Resorts about 2 weeks every year for our lifetime.
In addition we should pay $1,100 maintenance fee yearly.
I asked Matt to show me the agreement paperwork. He claimed that usually his customers were not interested to see this agreement. But I got a pile of papers, which I wanted to take with me and show to my financial advisor. But, read this, Matt said there are some leagal issues why they cannot let me have these papers. I have to ask... Leagal issues for whom?
I feel very sorry for anybody who has signed these kind of agreement and is finding out later that this is not a good investment for them. The sales pressure is very high, and unless you put your foot down, they will pressure you to sign this ripoff.
Needless to say, we didn't waste our money to this nonsense.
Eeva
Alpharetta, Georgia
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