is there such thing as a free vacation?
djanna
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So some lady from someplace called TrendWest called today and she offered me airfare and hotel to Las vegas or Cabo San Lucas for FREE if I go to some 1.5 hour presentation about some new resort downtown.I said "Do I have to buy anything?" "No""Can I go on the trip whenever I want?" "Yes""Can I stay wherever I want?" "Yes, it's a voucher for $700"so I took her number and said I'd ask the hubby. We _have_ been wanting to go to Vegas.Is this legit? Has anyone gotten a free vacation? I am such a skeptic. I know they will try and rope into some bullshit, but as long as I resist, do I still get the trip?
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moral: something shady was going on there if they had to give me that much cash for my 17 hours labor, i'd stay away...
dude.....I used to sell time share. We would get our "prospects" from people who came wanting a free vacation and where willing to sit through a presentation.
If you don't mind a "hard sell" then do it, but they'll try and do all types of crayz price breaks and even do a "exit interview" where somebody will try and sell you a cheaper "less desirable" location.
I don't know about getting like a 7-day vacation for free, but some of the resort/real estate/land development companies offer small, 1-2 day vacations (hotel, transportation, and partial--if not full--air plane ticket refund) as a way to get people to check out the properties or whatever else they are trying to sell. For example, my parents and I received a free weekend trip/mini-vacation to San Felipe, Baja Mexico from this company building a big resort, golf course, and housing development down there. The first day they drove us around and showed us a bunch of different lots, houses being built, etc. Of course we had to endure the sales pitch and everything, but the next day we weren't bothered--and it was free. That's slightly different than what you are talking about, though. I'd still be highly skeptical.
haha, I wish
I am cracking up just imagining you putting the "hard sell" on someone.
A...yo?
That's why I did okay their. I didn't look like I would be a fast talking salesman with a hard sell and pink striped shirt.
Bahhhhh! HAHHAHAHAHHHAHHAHH!
REJECTED!
If you're gonna AYO that one, you need to at least do a cosmetic post edit. Maybe something like:
HARD SELL[/b]
A Waste of Timeshare
Harmon Leon finds out how hard it is to get a free trip to Vegas.
Harmon Leon
http://www.thewavemag.com/printarticle.php?articleid=23002
One of my mom's friends takes cruises likie that all the time.
I'm not great at saying NO.
Whuh??? Who's the uncle? How can I be down?
Man, my wife pissed me off by signing us up to attend a time share "presentation" for gift certificates, while we were in Hawaii (of all places). We had to endure nearly 3 hours of bullshit sales tactics while it was nice and sunny on the beach outside. I had to finally scream on folks to stop pressing us and we broke the fuck out. I was salty as hell, at both my wife and those barracudas!!! If it sounds too good to be true, it is...and that's the word!!!
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
dude. Dad's secret brother has a son who manages the spa at the Venetian, Andrea and fam are friends with him. Dad's in denial, didn't I tell you?
Vegas is like the Holy Land for these seminars. While we were there for our wedding, a friend of my wife's went to one and they shucked and jived her hard for about 3 hours. She smiled, nodded and when they were ready to have her sign, she told them "I think I'll pass, just want the tickets." like someone else mentioned, they got rude, practically threw the tickets at her and told he she had "wasted their time". man, from what she said, she gave that lady HELL for that. All I could think was "what a lousy job that must be".
She got those tickets though. I think she enjoyed the confrontational aspect of it all.
Wouldn't the son of your dad's brother be your long-lost illegitimate cousin[/b]?
who you calling illegitimate, son?
Went to the spot saw a slide show and listened to a talk with a group of people. There were a few plants in the audence gushing about what a great deal it was, and they had been to their friends Trendwest spot.
Then we sat down one on one for the hard sell. I remember the sales guy asking what we liked to do on vacation. Look for records. Guess what I am like 90% of people who like to shop on vacation!
We finally told him we were not buying. We got a gym bag. A few weeks later we got our vouchers. All the days and times were the absolute least desirable. We ended up not going.
Trendwest's pitch is that it is not a timeshare for a specific rental. They have rentals all over the world and you can pick wherever you want to go.
On the other hand my parents got free vacations by being a higher class of potential sucker than you and I.
Next week: how I won an encyclopedia salesman.
Dan
Hey Anna,
I've stayed there a few times... Great place. Even just a regular nite there cost $99.00 (Or atleast it did when I've stayed there). Every room is a suite and the large bathrooms are a nice touch.
Hope U have a great trip.
As far as the free vaca goes... One of my best friends did one of those in the winter.. Stayed 2 nights and got the "Hard sell" on the second day. He works @ IBM in sales, so he was able to say no over and over.. But he did say some people looked like they went down and bought some time. They push pretty hard.
l8r,
Maybe if you flipped the script and everytime they used the words "buy, timeshare or finance" you started to get a tick and act a fool, it would be kinda fun. Would make an interesting vaca...