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The most reasonable way to purchase timesharing is to do it via referrals from satisfied, long term owners at the resort you are considering. At the risk of appearing to be a shill, I must restate that, for example, Sunset Resorts seems to have a large core of satisfied members who have not suffered what others on this board have suffered. They come back to the resort in Cabarete every year and find an improving property and are satisfied with their purchase.
You will find very few promoters who will let you talk to their existing owners--these people at Sunset will. As for the ultimate consumer protection of getting your money back after x number of years of use, I repeat that no one in the world offers that. No "developed" country, no "evolved legal system", no one, no where. Just how paternal can a government be, after all? If you expect the government to do that, you should not be concerned that they are tapping your telephone or reading your e-mail.
Talk to existing owners, look at the track record, do not accept the bogus financing at usurious rates quoted elsewhere. Sunset lets its potential members take the time to arrange financing at home--the reason that other timeshare promoters provide financing at the point of sale is to get you "on paper" then and there. It's all part of the emotional mill that you go through in the sales process.
The great irony is that millions of families are very happy with their timeshare purchases around the world, but they weren't at all happy the day they bought it--they left those sales offices wrung out like yesterday's laundry, but now--after using it for years-- they like what they bought.
To be very frank, Luis, you seem too worried to ever be satisfied with such a purchase, so you should probably just keep doing what you are doing for vacations. As I said in a previous post, your life will be just fine with or without timeshare.
Good luck.
The most reasonable way to purchase timesharing is to do it via referrals from satisfied, long term owners at the resort you are considering. At the risk of appearing to be a shill, I must restate that, for example, Sunset Resorts seems to have a large core of satisfied members who have not suffered what others on this board have suffered. They come back to the resort in Cabarete every year and find an improving property and are satisfied with their purchase.
You will find very few promoters who will let you talk to their existing owners--these people at Sunset will. As for the ultimate consumer protection of getting your money back after x number of years of use, I repeat that no one in the world offers that. No "developed" country, no "evolved legal system", no one, no where. Just how paternal can a government be, after all? If you expect the government to do that, you should not be concerned that they are tapping your telephone or reading your e-mail.
Talk to existing owners, look at the track record, do not accept the bogus financing at usurious rates quoted elsewhere. Sunset lets its potential members take the time to arrange financing at home--the reason that other timeshare promoters provide financing at the point of sale is to get you "on paper" then and there. It's all part of the emotional mill that you go through in the sales process.
The great irony is that millions of families are very happy with their timeshare purchases around the world, but they weren't at all happy the day they bought it--they left those sales offices wrung out like yesterday's laundry, but now--after using it for years-- they like what they bought.
To be very frank, Luis, you seem too worried to ever be satisfied with such a purchase, so you should probably just keep doing what you are doing for vacations. As I said in a previous post, your life will be just fine with or without timeshare.
Good luck.