professorman

Has anyone here ever done the King's Creek Plantation in Williamsburg, Vacation Ownership presentation?

This is one of those offers that sounded too good to be true type of deals. They say that I attend a 90 minute presentation, I am guessing about time share, and they they give me a $100 gas card and a round trip ticket and hotel for 3 nights at some popular travel destinations.

I know there must be a catch somewhere, but I figure I can go check it out and see what it is about and if anything in this is legitimate. I have seen them advertising free tickets to Bush Gardens and such before. The telemarketer just called me out of the blue and offered me. I was trying to hang up, but stuck around on the call until I booked an appointment.

Anyone have any experiences with these sort of things?

OhShift!

When my family and I moved to VA, we were at some restaurant in Williamsburg. As we left the place, people from King's Creek Plantation approached us and said if we went to the presentation we would get a 4 pack of season tickets to Busch Gardens.

We went, sat down, and listened to the speel. At the end the presenter stood up, said, anyone who is interested goto room A. Anyone who is just here for the tickets, go to the main lobby.

We went to the main lobby, stood in line. Got ticket. Enjoyed Busch for the year. And they had snacks. Granted this was 8 years ago, so it may have changed since then.

Twelvz

The catch is...the 90 minute presentation (which can certainly take longer) is a high pressure sales enviornment. Don't buy what their selling. You really don't have to pay for a timeshare. You can find ones already for sale where you just have to pay the transfer fee and keep up with teh annual dues.

B14SERClone

As Twelvz said, it's definetely a high pressure sales environment. If you can just remember that you're only there for the free stuff, you will be allright. But it's really easy to get sucked into the speal and buy something you had no intentions of getting!

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RandomTask

I've done it, they were giving away $150 in a visa gift card and some $50 gift certificate to a restaurant. Told the guy repeatedly I was not interested in buying and after about 45 min of me saying "no" they finally gave up and lemme go.

Twelvz

When we did one right before we walked into the sales pitch room we walked by a 911 Turbo...I was like you shouldn't let that car park there I'm saving my money for one of those instead.