I love going to timeshare presentations! I have been to dozens of them. My training is in social psychology (how people influence each other), and I always love to see what influence techniques the salespeople are going to use this time.

I find it fascinating when I catch the salespeople in a lie -- they generally just ignore being caught and change the subject. For example, one salesman said, "Once you own a week at our resort, you can rent it out on eBay for $1200." He them proceeded to show me a week that had *sold*, not rented, on eBay for $1200. When I pointed out that the week on eBay was a permanent deed transfer, not a rental, he just shrugged and talked about something else.

I own a bunch of timeshares, but bought them all resale. I did once try to buy some Disney Vacation Club points directly from the resort, but I couldn't get the salesman to return my calls. (I was just looking to add on to my current Disney Vacation Club with a small package at Disney's Beach Club. Disney has way more buyers for Beach Club than they have inventory to sell, so they weren't interested in talking to me.)

I recognize a couple of fellow timeshare owners from www.TUG2.net (the Timeshare Users' Group) here on this thread. Hi, Chriske and Carolinian!