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Classic Timeshare: Dateline Puerto Vallarta (conclusion)
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In Puerto Vallarta, we were able to negotiate for a fiesta, a dinner cruise, a blanket, and a lift to and from the dinner cruise (that turned out to be especially fortuitous because there was a huge thunderstorm when we came back from the cruise). In the interest of honesty, I must say that we never got the blanket; my mistake was in not collecting on it before attending the tour. What we did receive was well worth the time we invested, plus I truly enjoyed the presentation.
Quick story about the presentation – our tour guide was a mid-twentyish American woman, who told us that she had just moved to the area from the States when her husband’s job had been transferred. She couldn’t tell us a whole lot about the property, her manager would have to do that; she was only doing this part-time and had only been there for a couple of weeks. When she went to get us some coffee, I looked around the showroom a bit. Upon her return, I pointed to the plaques on the wall and complimented her on the fact that she had been awarded “Salesperson of the Month” six out of the past eight months.
You will see OPC’s in casinos – usually a developer will lock in the exclusive right to market in particular casino. In Tahoe, for example, Embassy Suites markets out of one, and the Ridge Tahoe out of another. They generally offer $50 in cash, chips or food. There’s not a whole lot of negotiation. The representatives stateside, while persistent, are considerably less aggressive than their South-of-the-Border counterparts.
Should you feel guilty, attending the presentation just to get the freebies? Absolutely not. If the only those with serious intentions of purchasing a timeshare attended, those showrooms would be pretty darn near empty. Most folks who attend not only figure they are not going to purchase, many have concocted specific stories to tell, to justify why they cannot purchase. Yet day in, day out about one out of ten will become new owners! The sales company just builds that into the cost of the program they are marketing.
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