Originally Posted by
Lovethecabin
My dad loved them too. He got flagged within one system as someone that routinely attended but never purchased. Back in the 80s, skiing weekends we popular freebies. My mom said they were taking advantage of one of the many stays and were approach by the management and told they could finish out their visit but were not welcome back. Dad was most disappointed.
We've never gotten flagged like that but around here the timeshare companies have quit offering their deals to locals as there were obviously too many of us who simply collected the rewards.
They would do their spiel, I would show them that their numbers didn't make sense, generally baffling the salesman in the process and that was that.
There used to be a company around here (I never knew their name so I don't know if they still exist in some form) that did booking but wasn't actually affiliated with the timeshares. There was an older woman there that loved us--when something came along with good enough rewards she would promptly call us because she knew it would most likely be a very easy "sale". (We had to turn her down a couple of times on scheduling.) We haven't heard from her in years, though.