• ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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      No, but it’s baffling to me that folks don’t seem to understand that timeshares with recurring maintenance costs that can only be discharged by paying someone to take them or bankruptcy aren’t worse. If people aren’t careful you can die and the damn things might get inherited, continuing the extraction misery. They’re a whole different class of financial mistake.

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        I remember going to a presentation trying to sell timeshares back in the 90s. I was on vacation with my parents in Orlando Florida. If we went to an hour long presentation selling us time shares we would be given tickets to Disney world for 3 days and up to 4 people per party.

        I have no idea how they afforded to do that, I know we didn’t buy one and I just read a book(i think I was about 10) while waiting to go to Disney world. We did get the tickets and Disney world was enjoyable.