$300 to sit thru a time-share sales pitch

[Howard Beale]

I got an offer to sit thru a time-share sales presentation and I will be paid $300 to do it. I accepted (seems like a no-brainer) and will have to drive from metro Phoenix to Sedona (~1.5 hours) and spend 90 minutes listening to the sales pitch. What can I expect? Will it be 'torture'? How hard will it be to get away? I have absolutely no intention of buying a time share but I know it'll be a hard sell of some kind. Are they allowed to wiggle out of paying me my money? And, finally, are they nuts to pay me $300 and how can this be worth it to them?

[chisness]

there was a south park episode about this

[diebitter]

Try and watch the south park episode where they go skiing for a taster.


And to help, tell yourself 'could be worse. It could be 3am, and i could be stuck in a men's cubicle with a guy named Seabass'.

[Sephus]

i think i'd try not saying anything the whole time unless it had something to do with my $300.

[catalyst]

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there was a south park episode about this

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Darsh!!

[Howard Beale]

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Try and watch the south park episode where they go skiing for a taster.


And to help, tell yourself 'could be worse. It could be 3am, and i could be stuck in a men's cubicle with a guy named Seabass'.

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I'm going next Wednesday. How about a re-cap of the South Park episode? I doubt I'll catch a re-run. And that last part was just plain weird.

[___SK___]

Just keep saying no, cause they will lower their offer and come at you from every direction.

$300 isnt bad, i got a trip to vegas that i never used.

[KKbluff]

When I was alot younger we used to take a lot of family vactions. I would say around 1/3rd of the trips would involve my dad doing one of those time share sales pitches at some point on our vacation. He really used to get some pretty nice incentives for doing them as well. I went with him on at least 2 of them and they really were not THAT awful (definantly worth the gift). They would tour you around a while and it usually took longer than they projected, but its wasnt all that bad to be honest (although I wasnt doing any of the talking).
About 15 or so years later when my parents ran into some money, he finally ended up getting a time share (after going through the sales pitch once again to get the free gift).

Summary: its worth it.

[kordothebear]

who do u get this offer?

[NSchandler]

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.