Fairfield Resorts, Wyndham Vacation Resorts Extremely Deceptive Sales Practices By This Timeshare Resort! Sevierville Tennessee

  As it turns out, you have a 10 day period to back out of the deal, and after that, if you look on page 393 in the Club Wyndham Plus members book, the frist paragraph reads that you can terminate at any time writing to the trustee.  (however, I don't know about the payments if you still are paying on the loan...it is worth looking into.)

My story: my wife and I own 2 with Wyndham Plus point programs and we were entertained this weekend to purchase an additional one from a non-pushy salesman yesterday.  We signed up and everthing was great till I had time to go back over evething in my mind on a good nights sleep.  My wife and I were looking into getting another "Plus" points time share to convert to "Reward" points for paying for meals and tickets when we go on vacation.  To do this, you have to have purchased directly from Wyndham, because we bought the other two from a resale company.  So, we met with "Ben" in Orlando this past weekend.

 Now for this GREAT DEAL that "BEN" was pitching to us, he was slick in trying to make it sound like "Plus points" was the same as "Reward points" but something didn't add up.   "Ben" was selling the idea that I could convert 120,000 points to pay $1350 in maint fees a year, and  I should buy a larger points package to cover that as well.  So being sold on this idea, we looked into a much larger package of points, enough to pay maint fees for all our units and enough to cover things we might want to do.    He sat in front of us, alowing me to do the math at a conversion rate of 1-1, he even rechecked the my math!  We signed up for close to 400,000 points!

 As it turns out, you can convert Plus points to Reward points, but here is the catch, they convert 1000 Plus points to 400 reward points. and 10,000 "REWARD" points equals $60 in maint fees.  I could only pay $880 in maint fees a year with what we were going to purchase.  Not the $2200 that we would need to cover the maint fees on all our units.  HE SAT RIGHT IN FRONT OF US, KNOWING DAMN GOOD AND WELL THAT WE WERE FALLING INTO A TRAP!  HE EVEN TOLD US THAT HE WAS HAPPY TO SEE THAT WE HAD MADE A WISE AND WELL INFORMED DECISION!!  . 

So, tonight, I am writing this at 3am, after I have wrote the letter for cancelation.  BUYERS BEWARE, these guys are slick, they CANNOT BE TRUSTED.  Make sure that you know what you are doing.  People that buy resale properties are smarter than buying direct.  The benefits are not worth the price you pay when buying direct!  My brother in law bought a time share in Las Vegas 6 years ago and is still paying on it, $120 a month, not to mention another $50 in fees a month.   He has 4 more years to pay, with his down payment he will pay over $16,000 for a small 56000 bi-anual package.  He has taken 3 vacations in 6 years in the middle of winter.   My wife and I will pay less than $500 for 315,000 annual points.  I don't care if I didn't buy from Wyndham, and from what I have seen and hear, those that buy from resale companies are much happier with their vacations than those that buy direct from Wyndham. 

ALSO, as a side note.  when we went to Myrtle Beach and stayed during spring break, we were told that we are spending a lot more on Maint. fees because we bought through a resale company......  After doing some research, this is not the case, the fees are the same if you buy from them direct or not, don't believe these guys!  I was a salesman for many years and I never lied to a customer and I was able to retire at the age of 35.   Any salesperson who needs to lie to make a sale has lost what is important, the return customer. 

HOWEVER, I will say this...I did meet a time share salesman 12 years ago at Star Island in Orlando that during his presentation, he said to me, "don't buy from me today, think about it and call me tomorow, the deal will be the same then as it is today."  I did not buy from him, but I called him back and talked to him.  He then tipped me off to a resale market on timeshares.  As it turns out, I came back 10 years later to the same guy and bought a resale.