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ask-redweek-wyndham-ovation-help-owners-get-out (by Tyler S.):
We haven't even used the program at all. They sold this program as an affordable way to annually go on vacation, but they only gave us 126,000 points and our monthly costs are almost $400 a month with HOA and mortgage. They said we could buy tickets to disney using their points and when we asked they couldn't give us solid numbers on it but they said it wouldn't be a problem. they also said we could even rent a car for 50-100 points (that was a total lie). We went ahead and signed it cuz we weren't locked into a single location, we could go anywhere and it sounded like a viable option to single location time shares. We tried to review information, but because they hadn't "set us up" we couldn't get information. They said it would take 14 days. Nope. It took nearly 1.5 months to get us fully setup where we could review everything and then finally we called and were floored. Disney tickets run 48,000-50,000 for a single park, single person, single day ticket! For our family of 5 to go, 1,225,000 points. (well they said we could buy them with points, never really said anything about it being priced REASONABLY). Ok no sweat, we'll fork over $2k to buy tickets on our own...car rental? 150,000 for a week rental of a car...so basically the entire year and some of next year is required to get the car too? what happened to 50-100? even if he meant 50,000-100,000 that's still not what it was. We sent an email to ovation, though I'm pretty sure I'm gonna need a lawyer to get out of this. We're out $3800 so far and every month it increases and the paypal accounts they set us up to pay the down payments is 0 interest for 6 months, but after 6 months its got to be paid off or we're going to accrue a lot of interest... I'm pretty sure this program doesn't include people who just bought it and feel scammed out of something.
Its cheaper for us to simply save the HOA and mortgage costs and go anywhere... we were also told getting out of the program was "easy" and they don't want anyone to "incur undue hardship". We'll see if THAT was a lie too.