Time Share Hell in Las Vegas

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[AppyPappy]

Everyone should attend a timeshare sales presentation. You will see every sales gimmick that you will encounter for the rest of your life.

[Hillbillary]

What doesn't belong on this list:

LOL!

[SamAdams76]

Good tip for avoiding the time share trap. Aside from the hard-sell experience, the rest of the trip went very well. As you say, there were excellent restaurants and plenty of things to do besides gamble. We will be going back and next time we’ll just say we are locals!

[mowowie]

I’m going in 8 weeks.
Can’t wait!
The Timeshare people and the Mexican dudes with their little hooker cards are most annoying parts of the place.

[mowowie]

“I get free rooms at any Harrah’s property any day of the year.”

Same here.
Last year it was 5 night free at the Paris.

This July it is 4 nights free at Harrahs.

I’t the plane tix that suck.

[GOP_Lady]

I was just at Paris last week.

I’ll be back there in July.

[SunkenCiv]

Then of course, there are the annual maintenance fees and it was fun to see the sales guy dance around that one. I finally forced a number out of him (somewhere around $1,500 a year) and I told him that for the maintenance fee alone, I could take that money and stay at a casino hotel right on the strip so why would I pay that every year plus an additional $41,000 for a place where I would have to rent a car to get anywhere?

You nailed it, right there.

[mowowie]

I learned that “We’re from here” trick one day while walking through the forum Shops.
Have used it ever since.
Works like a charm.

[mowowie]

LV has tried to outlaw the meican porn card vendors.
It got shot down dur to some civil rights thing.

[mowowie]

From July 5 - 9 i’ll be at the Carnival bar.

[GOP_Lady]

At Harrah’s.

I'll be at Paris the last week of July.

[GOP_Lady]

Just ignore them.

[Rome2000]

Should have done what I did, surrender to fight another day.

If you put down a deposit on a unit you get out of there quick, get a free limo ride back to your hotel, plus the freebies.

Of course, you have like 48 hours to cancel the contract for a complete refund of your deposit, which I promptly did.

Major victory over the time share people from hell.

[SamAdams76]

Now that’s a gutsy thing to do. I don’t know if I could have done it, I’d be too concerned that the resort would find a loophole to keep me from canceling the contract.

[Joan Kerrey]

Lance Burton - some kind of magician, I was told.

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Actually Lance’s show was quite good.
Thanks for the funny story though. Those high pressure sales efforts when they have you captive like that is pretty common.
I get free offers a lot for diners, lunches etc. and always ignore them. Car salesmen used to be the worst. I no longer will deal with them. AAA car buying service is the only way to go as far as I’m concerned.

[JerseyHighlander]

Back in the early days of the Vegas timeshare scam industry, no other than Harry Browne, future Libertarian Presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000, ran a timeshare high pressure sales office on the strip.

His coworkers back then accredited that gig with pumping up his presentation style that later paid off well in the wealth protection advisement industry.

[MinorityRepublican]

Whoa I didn’t know that. That wouldn’t had stopped Rudy if he was the Mayor of Las Vegas.

[JRios1968]

...If you are ever in Las Vegas, just say NO to any free gifts! Nothing is free in Vegas!

Anyone who's ever been to Vegas would have summarized your post in 3 seconds flat, saying precisely that.

Sorry you learned it the tough way, but then again, you did better than the poor saps waiting for the bus back to the hotel...

[abigkahuna]

HOmes in Vegas are selling for 40 grand and under these days. I have a very good friend that's been there since Bugsy Siegel's days and says things are cheap, cheap, cheap....Hell there were condos selling in the Turnberry for only 200 grand this spring.. Of course they were on the third florr and your view was blocked by another joint's parking garage, but hey, its the Turnberry!

Homes in his neighborhood selling for 250 during the height have been seliing for under 20 grand, mostly under 50 these days..

[Vicki]

I wasn't offended so much by what they were offering, I fully expected it. It was the frequency. It was like going through a gauntlet. Reminded me in a way of San Francisco and getting pan handled several times in a block. Takes away from the ambiance.

Speaking of San Francisco, the son went down there recently. Ten dollars an hour to park and walk around the wharf area.