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Re: bankruptcy (by Doug P.):

To beac 5:

It's not just FQ salesmen or Stormy Pointe salesmen. It's a problem throughout the industry. While most don't go this far, they all stretch the truth a lot. In Williamsburg, I had one salesman try to get us to buy based upon his "secretary's" ability to rent out units. He told us he could convert the weeks we currently owned into 30 some odd weeks worth of points and could rent those weeks out easily for $1,000/week. Of course he couldn't do that and within a few years I started to read about this guy and the complaints about being sold a bill of goods.

I can't tell you the number of times we've been told a resort would take a "trade in" but, when I pushed to get it in writing that we would never have to pay MF's on the resort week traded in, that's were the deal would break down. "Trust me" isn't good enough when they're wanting thousands of dollars from me.

Another lie told around Branson was that Disney was coming to Branson. After all, Missouri was Walt's home state. Disney was supposedly buying land like they did in Orlando to keep the price down. The only thing Disney ever brought to Branson was a Disney store and I don't think that lasted very long.

One other lie told to us by a salesman in Branson was that there would NEVER be another timeshare built in Branson because they'd passed a law prohibiting them. Inventory was going to run out by the end of the year (2009 I believe) so I'd better buy more weeks now. That same resort group just opened another resort over by Palace View called Palace View Heights.

You've learned an expensive lesson. Always keep in mind that if a salesmans lips are moving, then they're lying. We don't go on updates anymore. We're tired of the lies and arm twisting.