建議您看看這本書
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/purchasing-a-timeshare-geraldine-hariston/1114551539?ean=2940016339627
同時您可以看看這個資料 (寫得相當忠肯)
http://community.lawyers.com/forums/p/89938/426798.aspx
Hello -
I had wrote previously about timeshare in this post. I was the property manager of a timeshare resort. I did not work in Sales. however, during the sales of the units - many salesman were not fair to the consumer. I say that from my experience and not as a blanket statement. The salesmen would make up 'what ever the buyers would bond with" - I had them walk through our management offices saying - "how many kids did I tell them I had?" - and once they got the couple to a certain point of a single person - then they brought in a hard closer - and at that time they had to initial like three pages of stuff. The buyer did not normally read all those things - and believed the person that had talked to them at first, and then believed the closer regardless of the actual contract.
I managed this resort over 10 years. The sales department packed up and left - and the management company stood there holding the bag of lies that we didn't even know had been told to the owners. Over time I learned so many of them wanted it to be the "dream vacation" and trade for "anywhere in the world" - which is not true. Back then they had "secret ratings" for resorts and only certain rated resorts traded into the same or above rated resorts - so if you owned a piece of timeshare in a fishing town with no amenities, and no stores, and nothing but a beach - well you didn't own much at all and didn't have any trading value either. So at that time owners did not understand why they could not get what they wanted - my resort was a top rated resort and I worked my butt off keeping it there. It was still hard - the construction of the property itself had problems and our ownership was only about 25% of total. The rest of the time has no owner, and had no sales, and we had no maintenance fees from them. They ended up being owned by the management company. So after almost closing the doors on this place - we found someone that had a gimmick to sell timeshare, but at least it was not a big scam like the originial sellers. He came in and we gave him the weeks if he would sell them - we wanted the maintenance fees and were a management company. He would sell them for $800 a week for red, $600 white, and $200 blue. orginial prices were $12,500 for a red week - so this was all his profit - and yet we did save the property.
I would never recommend timeshare to anyone. If you were given a week without any cost it might be worth it to you if in a place you loved to visit. Do not have to join an exchange company and pay all those costs to "try" to go somewhere else - buy where you want to go.
I had suggested donating your week if you cannot afford it to Charity. Someone wrote that the charity would be responsible for maintenance fees. yes that is true. I had some owners donate their weeks though to active organization - one I remember was a religious organization. They took that week and put it in an auction as part of their fund raiser. So they did not owe the fees for the week except the maintenance fee. They could pay the maintenance fee - the charity - and at least cover those cost by auctioning the week and maybe even get a profit from it - that is one that I did see work out well.
Also, call the resort and ask about deed backs - then go further and call your management company and talk to someone OTHER then customer service - you will all the same answers - but if you talk to someone like Operations manager, VP or that level then if they do have a group of weeks they are having someone else sell for them - then they are more apt to tell you and let you deed it back - no one normally on the lower levels of management are authorized to tell you if that is going on.
I hope this helps someone - Good Luck
