Too late for me to rescind, how do I make the best of this?
Hi everyone,
I bought a Westgate timeshare back in 2011, and I know this will sound pathetic, but I hardly know a thing about it.
Like many people, we were fooled, tricked and given lofty (false) promises. We were told the presentation would be 90 minutes. We left our 3 kids in our hotel room while we went for the presentation. 3 hours later, we were still stuck with the sales lady and my kids kept calling me because hotel staff was knocking on their door to check out.
I was anxious to get back to my kids and the sales lady would not take no for an answer, even bringing a supervisor to sweeten her offer. We finally gave in, against our better judgment and rushed back to our kids.
Unfortunately for us, we did not know about our right to rescind until much, much later. Bottom line, we were stuck with this timeshare.
Initially, I had tried to make the best of it. We were given automatic gold membership into Interval International. I tried and tried to find weeks that would coincide with my off-weeks and my kids' off-weeks, but I found it near impossible. I gave up and eventually the Interval membership expired.
We did get to travel to our "home" timeshare in Orlando 3 times over the years, staying at Westgate each time. We never deposited the weeks, just used our home weeks.
We also used one of our weeks at Westgate Flamingo Bay in Las Vegas this year.
I have many unused weeks although I don't know how to confirm that information. Westgate's owner site only shows how much you owe and how much the maintenance fees are.
Now it's 2015. The kids are older and we finally have more flexibility on when /where to travel.
So what's my best course of action? Renew my membership with Interval? If so, how do I know what level membership to pick? Basic, gold or platinum? Is there a better forum board for Westgate suckers like me?
Since I'm stuck with this money-sucking leach contract, I want to make the most of it.
Thanks,
Lynn
Hi everyone,
I bought a Westgate timeshare back in 2011, and I know this will sound pathetic, but I hardly know a thing about it.
Like many people, we were fooled, tricked and given lofty (false) promises. We were told the presentation would be 90 minutes. We left our 3 kids in our hotel room while we went for the presentation. 3 hours later, we were still stuck with the sales lady and my kids kept calling me because hotel staff was knocking on their door to check out.
I was anxious to get back to my kids and the sales lady would not take no for an answer, even bringing a supervisor to sweeten her offer. We finally gave in, against our better judgment and rushed back to our kids.
Unfortunately for us, we did not know about our right to rescind until much, much later. Bottom line, we were stuck with this timeshare.
Initially, I had tried to make the best of it. We were given automatic gold membership into Interval International. I tried and tried to find weeks that would coincide with my off-weeks and my kids' off-weeks, but I found it near impossible. I gave up and eventually the Interval membership expired.
We did get to travel to our "home" timeshare in Orlando 3 times over the years, staying at Westgate each time. We never deposited the weeks, just used our home weeks.
We also used one of our weeks at Westgate Flamingo Bay in Las Vegas this year.
I have many unused weeks although I don't know how to confirm that information. Westgate's owner site only shows how much you owe and how much the maintenance fees are.
Now it's 2015. The kids are older and we finally have more flexibility on when /where to travel.
So what's my best course of action? Renew my membership with Interval? If so, how do I know what level membership to pick? Basic, gold or platinum? Is there a better forum board for Westgate suckers like me?
Since I'm stuck with this money-sucking leach contract, I want to make the most of it.
Thanks,
Lynn
Hello all,
I've read up quite a bit on here and have decided to cancel my contract with west gate. I just have one question, and it is probably a really dumb one. What is the contract number? Where on the contract for purchase can I find that? I know its probably very obvious, but I want to be 100% sure I am doing this right.
Thank you!!