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Old 12-16-2006, 12:37 PM
Howard Beale Howard Beale is offline
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Default Re: $300 to sit thru a time-share sales pitch

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My older brother has done this a few times.

He has said the key is to be very stand-offish. They'll hit you from every angle - they'll send a nice guy, then a mean guy, a cool guy, a dorky guy, etc. Just don't agree with anything they say, make it clear you don't like them and have no intentions of even listening to their offer. Otherwise they'll just keep on you and on you and on you.

I think almost all of these places require you to be married, so I imagine your wife is going too. It's probably pretty important to let her know beforehand there is a 0% chance of buying anything because their M.O. is to sell the wife on the idea and then guilt the husband into buying the timeshare for her.

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I'm not married and they didn't ask about a wife or anything. To the above poster who asked how I got the offer, I don't know. It just came in the mail. I guess I fit their income/age demographic or something. The place is in Sedona which is a really expensive, beautiful area. I've seen kiosks in the mall for time-share pitches and think you might get an offer from one of them if there's one in your mall. I was thinking of going with the 'I'm an idiot and don't know what your talking about' approach. Answer every question with a question and look and act goofy. If there is anything hilarious about the experience I'm going to post a TR.