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		<title>By: J</title>
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		<description>&quot;There are other traps. One offer on a popular auction site looked like a great deal but had a condition that the buyer must attend a “presentation” during their vacation.&quot;

Worldmark By Wyndham (aka: Trendwest) does this very often.  It&#039;s their way of business of selling you timeshare.  They say the &quot;presentation&quot; is only 90 mins, but you actually get stuck there for about 3-4 hours with them passing you from one sales person to the next for every time you say no.  If you&#039;ve been to one or going to one, take notice that there&#039;s never any clocks, calculators, notepads, or pens around for you to use.  

There are lots of numbers and $ figures being told to you at all times in hopes that everything sounds good and forget the totally actually &quot;ownership&quot; price (buy-in cost, maintenance fee, membership fee, interest (can be as high as credit cards), etc.)

Then, they give you as an incentive, &quot;free&quot; vacations, but actually you&#039;ll just end up going to these presentations again.  This time around, you&#039;re now an VIP member.

It&#039;s a never ending cycle.</description>
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<p>Worldmark By Wyndham (aka: Trendwest) does this very often.  It&#8217;s their way of business of selling you timeshare.  They say the &#8220;presentation&#8221; is only 90 mins, but you actually get stuck there for about 3-4 hours with them passing you from one sales person to the next for every time you say no.  If you&#8217;ve been to one or going to one, take notice that there&#8217;s never any clocks, calculators, notepads, or pens around for you to use.  </p>
<p>There are lots of numbers and $ figures being told to you at all times in hopes that everything sounds good and forget the totally actually &#8220;ownership&#8221; price (buy-in cost, maintenance fee, membership fee, interest (can be as high as credit cards), etc.)</p>
<p>Then, they give you as an incentive, &#8220;free&#8221; vacations, but actually you&#8217;ll just end up going to these presentations again.  This time around, you&#8217;re now an VIP member.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a never ending cycle.</p>
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