Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Anybody own a timeshare?

I had a friend that "sold them" for a few months, I'm pretty sure that IT gave him an ULCER !!!!!!!

Maintenance fees .


A sucker born every minute

Amazing people fall for these scams

Hell is gonna be worse than the ulcer.

Your first point is fact. Your second point is opinion.

There is a lot to like about the Branson area. Traveling down the strip during peak hours and not knowing what side roads to hit to get around the traffic is not something to like.

View from one of our condo's (not a timeshare), watching the fisheman float by on Lake Taneycomo chasing trout. I've pushed the 20" mark, would love to catch one of the 30+ pounders that have been recently caught in it. I think there was a 40+ pound brown caught last year.


Tight lines in the morning fog


Flatlanders catching pellet eaters...




Table Rock Lake is upstream about 2 miles, do some pleasure boating or crappie fishing on it.



As to timeshares----before we bought some condos for nightly rentals there, we would occasionally go stay at some timeshare places that were just trying to fill some rooms in the off season. Could get really good nightly rates there with some ammenities, better than hotels. One time wife succumbed to sit in on the timeshare presentation to get a free airline ticket anywhere in the country. I went out of curiousity. It was cringe worthy the tactics they tried using to get you to buy. Anybody with even a remote amount of critical thinking and some minimal math skills could see right through it all. They're nice to start, then get pushy, then get really pushy, then you tell them to F off and the guy leaves and his buddy comes in apologizing about how the other guy was, and that is not how they want to do business, but "what can we do to get you to buy". Uh, nothing?

We've got one and love it. Use it for one or two weeks every year.

Nope, don’t own one

I’m a homebody got my own slice a heaven😉

No one owns a timeshare; the timeshare owns them.

Wonderful things to pass on to your children if you hate them.

About the dumbest thing I've heard of if you can do simple math. I just returned from Belize, I wasn't bothered by a single timeshare pitch. I think Mexico is timeshare central, maybe the laws there??

I'm amazed that J.G. Wentworth doesn't deal in them.

We have a family cabin on a little lake that my siblings and I pay for. I don't want or need a timeshare. If I want to stay somewhere else I'll pay for a hotel.

My wife likes to sign me up for the schpeel when we go to Cancun. I count the different ways of telling them no.

I suggest having fun with it, get the sales team to drink tequila shots while giving their pitch. Every no they elicit, everyone does a shot. Test their commitment.

Full disclosure, I have drank mas tequila in Mexico and have sat through the pitch. I just thought of mixing the two.

Kinda the same here- we have a deer camp on acres. Need a weekend/week away? Go there. Was the way it was my whole life.

The business is built on the concept that people simple minded enough to attend the presentation are good candidates for a really bad product.


mike r

Yep. It's in the mountains of north Idaho.

Yes, and you may also be subject to "special assessments" when the place needs a new roof etc.

About the only business more corrupt then the timeshare industry is the "let us get you out of your timeshare" industry.

If you really want a timeshare you don’t need to pay full price. I’ve been offered several for free but you have to pay some sort of processing fees which was around $1500 then if you do buy one the maintenance fees was $600 a year and that was 10 years ago. We have been to several just to get the free stays but I told the wife no more of them. If we want to go somewhere we will just pay up and avoid the 2 hours of sales pitches.