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16 November 2007

I actuallly responded to a piece of junk mail. We went to one of those vacation club/timeshare promo sales meetings and walked out two hours later with a free turkey and two free airline tickets. [More:]

And I only feel a little slimy for going just for the promo swag. And I ate two cookies. I sort of feel like that twilight episode where they give you a box and if you push the button, somebody somewhere dies and you receive one million dollars. We were joking that everyone else in the room was an actor and we were the only real customers.

The sales manager used to work at UPS and two huge red scars on his elbows where they repaired the nerve damage in his arms.

It was slightly depressing, but not terribly so.

Thanks, just had to publicly process the whole experience. Move along now.
Those things are good if you have the backbone for them. A friend of mine wangled a week-long stay in an Ireland timeshare just for sitting through one of their sales pitches.

If you've got the personality to say No No No No No I Really Mean No Gimme, then you should do it.
posted by mudpuppie 16 November | 02:17
Don't feel lousy about it - perhaps their sales goal was merely to get you to consider a time-share sometime in the future and lure you back, not get you to sign up right there and then.

Have you decided where to use the tickets yet? And what kind of cookies are we talking about?
posted by mdonley 16 November | 02:18
I've wanted to try one of those, but my ex had the backbone of a jellyfish and I knew he would have gotten us into something we couldn't afford. I wonder if my new boyfriend could do it?
posted by rhapsodie 16 November | 04:04
Damn, I just fed one of those into the fire. Free 4 day cruise and free weekend in Vegas and another in Puerto Rico. I thought, "srsly, 2 hrs of bumpf? gotta be worse than that." Damn. Backbone be damned, I ain't got nothin' to spend. I used to, though, which I think may have been the carrot for them.
posted by elizard 16 November | 04:36
Well now I know if I ever get an invitation to one a them, I'll go. Like elizard, I have no money, so even if my backbone failed, I'd be safe.
posted by Specklet 16 November | 13:02
My parents used to do this periodically, to get an afternoon away from the kids and to experience the freedom that window-shopping brings when you simply won't cave to the pitch.

For the longest time, a tiny b&w tv they scored at a timeshare pitch sat on our kitchen counter; my mom was so happy to watch "Donahue" while she made dinner, and doubly happy not to have a timeshare condo in Florida.

I don't think you should feel slimy taking them up on offers of free tickets and free 20-lb. hams or whatever --- is a fish being malicious when he takes bait off your hook?
posted by Elsa 16 November | 13:16
Apparently this company was on the news last night for scamming people!!!! I hope our plane tickets are real.

Great Escapes scam
posted by craniac 16 November | 15:11
Well at least you got a free turkey. Unless that turns out to be fake too.
posted by puke & cry 16 November | 19:19
UPDATE: THE WHOLE THING, INCLUDING THE CERTIFICATES FOR AIRPLANE TICKETS, IS A BIG FAT SCAM.
posted by craniac 29 November | 22:09
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