Free Vacations if you sit through seminar scam...

[mydreamwedding]

I saw this on the news. If you click on the link, there is also a video:

http://www.kcra.com/news/16169845/detail.html

NAPA, Calif. -- Sitting through a sales pitch in return for a $100 trip to Hawaii sounds like an easy deal.

The company behind a mailer sells vacation

Comments

In case anyone was interested..

[harro_der]

You can get pretty good deals if you do this sort of thing *in* Hawaii. My parents did it last year and got a really good deal at the Westin Hotel on Maui (resort wasn't built yet) and they ended up buying a timeshare

Re: In case anyone was interested..

[hvhoward]

I agree. We went to Las Vegas several years ago and sat through a timeshare presentation. We walked out with show tickets, a voucher for dinner, and tickets to Madame Tussauds. We also had the option of paying around $600 to come back the next year and stay in the timeshare for a week to reconsider. We only had to pay for our airfare. Let me tell you, that was WELL worth it. The timeshare was bigger than my house. I would have loved to buy it, but we had just bought our house.

[riki_kiki_taco]

A lot of these programs also don't tend to give you the name of the company up front. I've gotten calls where they've said they're from David's Bridal or some Wedding Magazine, and it's really a cookware firm that's calling. Always do a search of these companies before agreeing to anything, especially on sites like Consumer Reports. Of course, obviously fewer people will be posting if they have a good experience thana bad one so it may be a bit skewed, but as it's nothing I'd be interested in anyway, I always say no.

~kiki

[kaysuiko]

I've had so many calls from them... They keep telling me they got my name from a bridal show and shizzle like that... I've turned them down every time... Partially because we already know what we want to do and how to get a good deal on it, and partially because it's such a scam, haha. Our honeymoon will be right after Christmas and into the new year and there's no way those dates will be available through them, hehe.

[normanee]

We went to one. The food was good, but not much, so we had to go out after T_T. The cookware was good but insanely overpriced. We never used the vouchers, they just seemed off, plus they only paid for a hotel, not airfare!

[pagankittykat]

FH and I have done several of these presentations and received tons of great vacations. Totally worth it if you have the sales resistance. We've done (I think?) 4 timeshare presentations and the cookware demo (which we actually bought--the cookware is AMAZING!)