Bluegreen Vacations review: maintenance bill at blue green! 4

I had a phone call from someone at Bluegreen, it seems we didnt purchase any further points, just an upgrade, our total now is 21000 points, whick is worth just over a week
I would say if you have a chance back out of it, keep your week (you can bank it with RCI and save it or move it to a more convinient time, ) or stick with the date you have got

When we transferred our weeks to points, they were worth 21000 points, we ended up paying 5000 (approximately for some upgrade, which I am waiting for Bluegreen to explain what it mweans exactly, becuase I have no idea, and their paper work means nothing to me

I banked my 21000 points with RCI, and then asked them for my resort (the fountains in October, I did get them, BUT it cost me £318, ) oh, yes, they DIDNT have the Fountains, BUT they did have Oasis Lakes, I thought they were both the same) I wasnt happy, but I'm just going because I want to find out what this upgrade is all about I have bout, so far I havent seen any upgrade, just a lot of messing about

Give them a call and find out EXACTLY what you have upgraded to, and do it sooner rather than later, might be a good idea to record the conversation as well (this can be done with the phone on speaker and a video camera, ignore the picture, its the speech you are after, have a practice to try it out)

Regards

Derrick

I had a phone call from Boca Raton, Florida today,
Apparently, my maintainence bill didnt contain anything for owners who didnt pay, I cant check this as I dont have my bill any more

It was explained to me that when my week was converted to points, it was worth 13000 points and I apparently bought 8000 points, this isnt what the salesman told me, we wanted enough points rto stay 2 weeks each year, this amount of points we have now got doesnt let us stay for 2 weeks, just about 10 days is our lot,

I'm still not happy about the situation with Bluegreen though, whhen I tried telling Gerry, about this, he just really wanted mre to change my views and add a statement here

We didnt have a floating week, ours was fixed and in October (week 36) and I had no problems with that

I think I'll join this Yahoo group, or at least have a look

I wish Bluegreen would buy my points back, but I cant see that happening, but I'm still looking for any company that would sell my points WITHOUT my putting money up front, I'd pay double their fees to get it done

I have been getting a few emails from people here asking how I sold my timeshare points, I cant reply to them as I dont have your email address, IF you send me an email, please send your address
I wont send you spam, but I will send you the emails I received and the address of the people who bought them
Thanks
Derrick

I had a timeshare with Bluegreen, I sold it, I lost a lot of money, but I gained money

I bought my timeshare when it was owned by Airtours, it was fine until Bluegtreen bought it and everything went up

So now I use hotels, its very good, I book my hotel, I pay for it, I use it, no further payments required

I weighed it up with what I got from a timeshare and what I get from a Hotel

A hotel

I get room service

I get fresh towels each day

I get my bed made up and turned down each day

My room is cleaned each day

I usually get a VERY good resturant on site, not just a coffee bar/snack bar

I dont get a bill every year for maintainence

I can get a hotel anywhere and any time I want

What do I get from a timeshare

NO room cleaned each day

NO bed make up/turn down

NO room service

NO resturant on site

NO clean towels each day

I have to share the resort with very loud kids and drunks, there are no quiet areas

I DO get a BIG bill each year (usually the cost above the hotels I have stayed in)

I cant book when and where I want, unless it at least 6 months in advance

I do get a whole apartment (but its a waste, its just my wife and I)

I'm glad I sold my timeshare and have nothing to do with Bluegren any more

It doesnt matter where the resort is, you still have to get there, so I havent included the airfare in my prices

Last year, I stayed in the Dominican Republic, all inclusive, 2 weeks, it cost me $720.00
I stayed in Sri Lanka, all inclusive, 3 weeks, that cost me $900.00, but I did get an upgrade

I have just returned from Egypt (April 2010) again another 2 weeks, all inclusive, total cost, including airfare £1265 and not PP, but for myself and wife, I reckon that was a great deal

I had 'free' food', 'free drinks, ' free' tours, a nice beach (in both locations) plenty of service

Non of these places are in the RCI or BlueGreen books (I know they werent FREE, I paid for them, but the more I ate and the more I drank and the more tours I took, the cheaper my holidays were)

I had a great time and I am not expecting a maintainence bill this Christmas or New Year

No one will ever sell me another timeshare, but as long as they give me FREE tickets or $80 to go to a presentation I'll go along, all you people that own a timeshare are paying for me to attend, so keep buying and paying those bills each year, I want your money/tickets

Sell your timeshare, go to all the presentations you can get as much as you can from them, but NEVER, NEVER buy again (you will lose money selling your timeshare, may as well get some back by going to the presentations)

Keep moaning about your timeshare, your bills arent going to get any smaller and when you die, your kids will own it, I bet they will really thank you for that monkey on their back,

Maybe you people that own timeshare tell me what you actually get ?

I'll counter each positive with a negative,

C'mon, what do you have to lose ?

I have been accused of being a moocher, scounger and a 'panhandler' for going to these presentations, I make it quite cklear, before they start that I wont be buying and timeshare, and they say, 'it's not a problem'

I let em get on with it, then after 1 1/2 hours I stand up, and tell them thats my time up, I now want my tickets or bounty for attending, they get a bit peeved, but hey ho, I get my tickets or bounty,

I also had 'free coffee and donuts

I dont have a problem accepting a bounty or tickets from these presentations, THEY asked me to attend, I didnt approach them

I am glad there are millions of timeshare owners paying their maintainence bills each you, if they didnt, I wouldnt be able to attend these presentations and have free coffee and donuts and get paid for someone sell me something, even though they know I'm not buying