Why would anyone want to get involved in a time-share?

JustDave said:
I don't seem to hear about them anymore, but people bought them at one time. Without even thinking about any advantages, time shares seemed like very poor investments to me. At first glance, they seemed reasonable, but after brief consideration, I wouldn't call them a scam, but something on the edge of a scam, like the most exciting thing about them had to be the sales pitch.
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They are only poor investments if they are not used often enough and if one has to spend a lot of money to get to and from them. A friend of mine said she thought that at first when I bought our timeshare, it was a bad investment. Now she admits, it was a good choice for me and my family because we use it often. Times have changed since timeshares were first offered. It's no more....well you can only stay there for two weeks out of the year. We can go whenever we want. The max stay per check-in is three weeks though and then I think if we wanted to stay longer, we'd just have to change suites. I've never stayed for more than a week at a time.

Also, like many timeshares these days, ours is in a 32 floor resort hotel, so it's a lot more than 52 families. :D Our home resort has an on sight coffee shop, full service ocean view restaurant, gym, pool, hot tub, lounge, arcade, fun zone for the children and mini mart and we can stay at 2 other resorts (one in Brigantine) under the same "umbrella" as our home resort, if we choose to (without having to go through the exchange club).

We had taken a timeshare tour of the Wyndham resort hotel, also in Atlantic City, a couple of months before we bought ours. Wyndham also gave us the 2 free night stay and $100 Visa card. They wanted way more money than the original asking price of Fantasea resorts, thus way, way more than what we wound up paying. The Wyndham was lovely, but they did not have the ocean view like ours, nor balconies.
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