We were pulled from the street one night by a promoter to attend the Westgate Timeshare presentation. He told us that we would get breakfast but he did acknowledge it was a continental Breakfast, in exchange for tickets to the gondola and Madame Tussaud’s museum. This wasn’t our first rodeo so we went. The promoter was explicit that it would be a 90 min presentation. By the 90 min mark we hadnt even seen the room. But let me start from the beginning. You arrive and they call your name, the host has you select your breakfast items. Don’t get the orange juice, it is like orange flavored gasoline. Idk why. Stick with the water. There was cereal and other breakfast bars. We ate our breakfast with our own personal host and had small talk, after maybe 45 mins, she started her planned speech. The standard questions about where we like to travel etc. we kept letting her know we had a newborn that we needed to get back to, so we just needed her to cut to the chase as to how much it is, so we just can make our decision. She didn’t. She went on and on, showing us the extremely wealthy ceo, as if that was supposed to make me feel better. Specifically pointing out that they are debt free, when ironically this was going to have us go into debt. I understand that they have a product to sell, and she did that well. She was very convincing and persuasive. After almost 2 hours, we finally saw the room that we would be getting. It was just average at best, for that monthly payment we could save that up, and stay somewhere nicer once in a while, vs holding a spot we can only use two weeks of the year. It is illogical. If we do have extra income, I’d rather save, or give donations than put it aside for future vacations that we may or may not have. I love staying in hotels. I don’t mind airbnbs or condos but my preference is to stay in hotels when on vacation. The host told us specifically that she wouldn’t send other people over to exhaust us, yet after we said no repeatedly, two or even three other people came over to try to convince us. After the 3rd hour of saying okay we need to go, our baby needs us, more and more people kept coming over to convince us. Eventually I showed them a spreadsheet of our finances and they left us alone and let us go. That made me realize that they are looking for people who are ignorant about their finances and aren’t concerned about it. We did get our prizes as promised, however I wouldn’t do it just for the prizes, the badgering is just unnecessary. We were so exhausted after, once we picked up our baby, we slept for 3 hours.
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