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[ 2013 ] Age at Initial Purchase

icydog

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I was 45 and my husband 60. We first bought Marriott's Sable Palms but rescinded a few days later. We said to ourselves that if Disney ever built a timeshare we would buy then. Only a few weeks later we found a small ad for Disney Vacation Club in a magazine. We called the number in the ad and bought 230 points on the phone sight unseen. The resort wasn’t finished but we went down to see it in September 1992. We were treated like royalty by Disney and fell in love with Disney Vacation Club. We subsequently bought a lot more points and spent at least one week per month at a DVC resort. In the beginning, until 1999, we were given four free tickets to the parks per visit. Boy did we take advantage of those tickets. I have always said that we were so lucky to have bought such a wonderful timeshare when nobody I met even knew what a timeshare was much less a Disney timeshare.
 

artringwald

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At 54, after the kids were gone and married.
 

Panina

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I purchased my first hgvc at 55. My first timeshare at 25.
 

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I was about 40 years old when I bought my first Week, Marriott Sable Palms pre-construction. A numer of years later I bought a resale ski Week in my Son's name when he was only 17. No one asked ever how old he was. He used it for 7 or 8 years. He later (with my help) deeded it back to the HOA.

George
 

Ianneyan

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My hubby and I bought our first HGVC timeshare 6 years ago when I was 35 and hubby was 36. We like to travel/vacay, and we especially like the ability to book a range of accommodations to suit us, whether we travel as a couple or with our family, for a fraction of the cost! Having a timeshare most def. “forces” us to schedule these vacays regularly, and we LOVE it!
 

amycurl

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I was 19 and my mom was (*does some math in her head*) 46. Both named on the deed. We had to talk our way into the sales presentation because they we only really wanting to sell to people who lived in-state. We purchased pre-construction in the days before an active resale market. Worth every penny and we've been all over the world with it. :)
 

Tamaradarann

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We never had enough money to buy a timeshare when we were in our 20's 30's 40's or early 50's. Our vacation used to be at home or a few days tacked on to a summer business conference in upstate NY. Certainly no money to fly anywhere.

In our late 50's we started to get the travel and retirement itch. Particularly to go to a warm place during the winter in NY. We first found South Florida and fell in love with Miami South Beach and bought our first timeshare there at 56. Then we found Hawaii and the flexibility of the HGVC system and just kept buying more timeshares
 

alexadeparis

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First at 30 for me, husband was 55.
 

geist1223

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Patti and I were both 48. We bought our first timeshare together before we were married. A leap of faith.
 

JohnPaul

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33 and 40 for first timeshare. First HGVC, 53 and 60. Now 63 and 70 and own LOTS of timeshare.
 

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59 for both of us - HGVC. Added a second week the next year.
 

alexadeparis

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Patti and I were both 48. We bought our first timeshare together before we were married. A leap of faith.
For the marriage, or the timeshare?
 

JIMinNC

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HGVC at Sea World
For us, mid-40s for our first timeshare, at what is now Diamond's Kaanapali Beach Club. Sold that a few years ago when we were in our late 50s, right after buying into the Marriott Vacation Club program. Now we are 61/62, and we just added our first HGVC several months ago.
 

Magic1962

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The Grandview at Las Vegas 122000 points annually....
from the beginning of this thread I think there is kind of a going theme... A LOT of people bought their timeshares earlier in life contrary to what most people believe that Time Sharing is only by older people.... I think anyone in the 20s to late 40s is early in life and it looks like the majority are in that category.... I bet that is STILL the going trend for timesharing.... ????
 
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