Useful tips you'll learn: The biggest secret about timeshares. How to "check the math", How to pay for your timeshare, 10 reasons not to buy a timeshare, 4 words to be wary of, questions to ask to put you in control, and much, much more.
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Lisa Ann Schreier, founder of Timeshare Insights, is the first timeshare industry insider to offer unbiased consumer information to help people before they buy a timeshare. Schreier is a 15 year advertising, media, and sales veteran, a licensed Real Estate agent, and has extensive experience in timeshare sales and sales management. She has geen featured in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Hiatus Magazine, the Orlando Sentinel and other national and regional media. Schreier believes that "timeshare is a wonderful product, oftentimes marketed and sold in the worst possible manner" and is working to demystify the product for consumers.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wish I had known this before I bought a timeshare!,
By Bob (Chicago, Illinois) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Surviving a Timeshare Presentation (Paperback)
Just completed reading Ms. Schreier's book, Surviving A Timeshare Presentation, and really appreciated her candidness--and humor. Having owned a timeshare in the past, I wish I had had this kind of information way back when I purchased my timeshare. And, those horrible timeshare presentations! I felt like they wanted my first born before I was asked five times to sign and buy THAT DAY! Now I know there is a better way to go about buying timeshare, the dos and the don'ts. I urge ANYONE who is going to one of those timeshare presentations to READ this book FIRST, so you know what to expect. I'm not knocking timeshare, per se, because I have enjoyed mine. But unless you really know what you're getting into, it can be a bad experience. This book will give you a look behind the curtain of the timeshare industry and can really help you make up your mind about whether timeshare is right for you. Way to go, Ms. Schreier, glad you had the guts to put all this down on paper. Your honesty and candidness is overdue on a subject that often hides behind smoke and mirrors. Congrats on a great book!
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
This is the fox guarding the henhouse,
By
This review is from: Surviving a Timeshare Presentation (Paperback)
...and if you fail to take the author's advice with a grain of salt, you will get plucked. You don't need to go much farther than Ms. Schreier's own webiste, Timeshare Insights, to get a bead on how she views the timeshare consumer. Check out the FAQ on that site, specifically "The Timeshare Consumer and Timeshare Salesperson Mutual Bill of Rights". I particularly like #7:" The consumer has the right to not purchase anything at any time during the presentation IF AND ONLY IF the decision is make on solid information and not on some 'pact' that was made prior to walking into the sales center."
Pact, shmact. The #1 grievance with the timeshare industry is the do-or-die get-them-to-sign-NOW hardball tactics of their sales force. How are you going to make a decision on "solid information" if you can't review the contracts and literature at your leisure and outside of the salesperson's domain? I have a "pact" with myself that I don't even buy a $400 refrigerator without shopping around, but somehow prospective timeshare customers don't deserve the same courtesy of being able to "cool off" before they decide, as oppossed to later fighting for their "cool off period" rights (assuming they are doing business in a state that affords such consumer protections). You don't have to work too hard to scratch the surface of this book's consumer "helpfulness".
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Nothing more than a misleading sales presentation,
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Surviving a Timeshare Presentation (Paperback)
The title of the book is wrong. It is not fair to the readers. Those who buy this book are likely seeking some "insightful" information to an industry they are not familiar with, but are about to step in with a major investment. Beware, there are many traps! ... This book is nothing more than a misleading sales presentation. Obviously the numbers were carefully manipulated, and purposefully misrepresented.
In one section, the author calculated the cost of vacation over a 40 year period. When she did the math for hotel, she put in a 10% annual inflation in calculation. On the same page when she calculated for timeshare, however, she assumed zero inflation for annual fees. Common sense will tell you both rates are at extreme, and indeed shall subject to the same in calculation. Once you factor this number in. Her conclusion does not stand. When she mentioned rental, the author sited a rental of $1500 for a one bedroom unit. I am not sure the author ever tested the rental market. It is way off! There is also no mention of resale, whereas timeshares are traded at more than 50% discount! Typical to a sales presentation, there is also no mention how you should plan for your future vacations. If any thing happens, can you change your schedule?
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
