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Maintenance Fees (by KC):
samb87 wrote:It sounds like you are so well off that loss of time share rental, etc doesn't bother you much. I am not in that boat. Lucky you.
"Sounds like"??? What on earth does that mean???
Not that it's any of your business at all, but am I certainly not "so well off" that a permanent loss of $1,650+ in pre-paid maintenance fees without benefit of any actual use this year doesn't hurt or bother me --- it does. Also, since our particular timeshare weeks are "fixed" weeks (not "points", not "flexible"), when our week dates passed, any use of those weeks was then gone forever, with no option to "reschedule" or "book a different week" or "bank" anything, despite the resort having been closed. We can't change the facts of the situation, so we have to just accept the harsh and unfortunate reality.
Still, I choose to view the one time loss of our two timeshare weeks this year in perspective, remembering that these two timeshare weeks are a luxury --- not a life necessity. We are grateful to have our health and our family members safe and well, which is certainly much more important to us than a week of timeshare use and / or renting out our other fixed week to help defray our ownership costs.
Apparently you are able to see things only through your ME lens. I suggest that you get a tissue if you are just going to cry "woe is ME". You are not a victim. You share in the bad luck of many others who are unwillingly and negatively (and in many case, much more severely) impacted by this pandemic. It's clearly very difficult for you to do, but try to look at the bigger picture. You are not "special" and you certainly are not owed any form of "compensation" --- so get over yourself and your obvious but sad and misguided notion of personal entitlement.