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Re: Buying timeshares (even resale) (by Phil L.):

What is funny is Dale says its like shopping Albertsons for food. They start about three months before they want to go and like walking through the market he surfs the timeshare sites and picks what he wants and goes to check out.

He tells me that the three month window works because owners are starting to wake up to the fact that they don't have the only timeshare for rent.

Most owners will start really looking at all offers before just saying no way. Many owners turn down offer thinking they have a lot of time left and unless they own timeshare in one of the top areas that is in top demand then they may not see another offer after his offer.

They have been to Hawaii twice in last few years and they only stays in the top of the line timeshares. Dale told me he gets a kick out of the owners that put their nose in the air about his offer and see's them crying about being stuck with their unit couple weeks from use date and it happens alot. He said he always gets one of these owners e-mailing him again at last minute to make deal!

Now we know what he says "NO THANKS" then goes on vacation!

Good example is some post on here of owners stuck with their units and out fee's to try and rent plus there MF. Now its to late to bank so its now" use or lose" for owners!

I would guess that for every owner that rents out his unit there will be at least a 1000 owners that get stuck. Get stuck kind of a funny term because they can still use the unit for their own family. Isn't this the reason they bought the timeshare anyway! PHIL