A large amount of the mail we receive here at Escape Timeshare is from people purporting to be timeshare owners that are ‘perfectly pleased’ with their timeshare purchases.
Considering that just about any timeshare can be purchased on the secondary market for 30% of its retail cost, we tend to discount most emails as being from timeshare promoters or masochists that genuinely enjoy greatly overpaying for luxury vacations.
We do occasionally see the stray email that stands out as being from someone that is genuinely pleased with their purchase and may have at least gotten a fair deal. For example, Johnathan writes us:
You really cannot write-off all timeshares as bad deals. I found a single bedroom unit in Puerto Vallarta roughly ten years ago that I purchased for $150 from a co-worker that was sick of maintenance fees on a place she could never find time to visit.
Mexico can be a bit of a trip for some people who sometimes decide to just let their units revert back to the resort. She was about to do so when I offered to buy it for a song. She had spent nearly $20k to purchase it.
