Is this actually worth anything or just a holiday scam?

charlie555

bat21tiger wrote: »

I'm off for a midweek break at Laugharne, Mid Wales with 5 others for £25 - where are you going.....?

People do sometimes tell you about their really cheap holiday - but they forget the capital sum they have "invested" and annual charges they pay.

I looked into timeshare a couple of years ago. Many schemes are just scams, but if you can avoid them and evaluate the genuine timeshare schemes they are at best a very expensive way of buying a holiday. Some people like the idea of "owning" something which a timeshare seems to offer, but it is an illusion. Buying something that you can sell the next day for 10% - 20% of what you paid for it is daft. And we have all heard about the scams where they charge you a fee to sell your timeshare.

There may be a small number of people who go on many holidays a year and can go at any time and to anywhere for whom a timeshare is not a disastrously bad investment. But even for them the deals they could get given their ability to go anywhere at any time still makes their timeshare an expensive way of having a holiday.

For the majority of people timeshare is at best expensive at worst a rip off. The timeshare pond is infested with sharks. Don't even dip your toe in.

_Andy_

Why dredge up a 3 year old thread?

geordie_joe

_Andy_ wrote: »

Why dredge up a 3 year old thread?

Because you shouldn't start a new thread if one already exists.

charlie555

Easy, Andy. Bartsimpson is new here.

mpython

Methinks Bartsimpson & bat21tiger are interns at seasonholdidays. I know real people with timeshares and none of them talk about their timeshares in such glowing terms. We've de-bunked their marketing ploys time & time again on here.

Personally, I wouldn't take any advice of a Risk Management Consultant (whatever that is) who can't do sums.

From this thread,

bat21tiger wrote: »

....I'm off for a midweek break at Laugharne, Mid Wales with 5 others for £25 - where are you going.....?

From one of the other threads.

bat21tiger wrote: »

......I'm just off to Laugharne with friends and it's going to cost us about £5 each - where are you going this week.....?

ravinella

Hello there, I am new here, but was interested to read this thread.

I recently "won" a Seasons Holiday (exclusive to the Racing UK Sports Channel) scratchcard prize of "One Week Luxury Holiday Accomodation for Four at any Seasons resort every year for a lifetime worth £3,750.

Naturally I phoned their freephone 0800 448 448 to claim the prize. They advised me that I need only pay an annual maintenance fee of £367 which is currently discounted to £275 for next year.

Is this an offer worth taking? I know this site usually advises that you only "win" if you have to pay nothing out. But from reading this thread some people appear to have had to pay out a bit more. In short, is this a prize worth having - some of the resorts look nice, for instance Knocktopher Abbey in Ireland?

Any advice much appreciated!

Thanks

consettonian72

I've just recieved a letter too on saturday glad i looked it all up now i know it is a scam
at first i thought who sends scams registered through the post and given free phone line to call but after reading the posts to do with this company i dont usually get done over but this one nearly had me will still ring them tomorrow on an outside phonebox line ha ha they dont know what coming to them :rotfl::D

who deals with scams to stop them Ps names are different on other letters than mine
i have a (leanne halliday membership secretary ):mad:

dzug1

ravinella wrote: »

Hello there, I am new here, but was interested to read this thread.

I recently "won" a Seasons Holiday (exclusive to the Racing UK Sports Channel) scratchcard prize of "One Week Luxury Holiday Accomodation for Four at any Seasons resort every year for a lifetime worth £3,750.

Naturally I phoned their freephone 0800 448 448 to claim the prize. They advised me that I need only pay an annual maintenance fee of £367 which is currently discounted to £275 for next year.

Is this an offer worth taking? I know this site usually advises that you only "win" if you have to pay nothing out. But from reading this thread some people appear to have had to pay out a bit more. In short, is this a prize worth having - some of the resorts look nice, for instance Knocktopher Abbey in Ireland?

Any advice much appreciated!


What you have 'won' is a contract that cannot be cancelled to send them money each year (the maintenance fee) for whatever period membership is whether you take a holiday or not.

Not worth taking.

moneypooh

This has been brought up before on this forum, you can search seasons holidays and bring them up.
I had one too, I won't be taking the offer.

stebiz

Within a day of me starting to enter competitions I won this. I wonder how many people actually lose?;)

Stebiz