In Reply to: too good to be true posted by kawrider on Wednesday, 26. March 2008 at 17:03 Bali Time:
I have attended a timeshare presentation in Bali after receiving a phonecall telling me that I had won a prize. My daughter was thrilled to hear that I had won, so I agreed to attend the presentation by RCA.
I sat down with a Balinese fellow and I told him that I would give him an hour. After exactly one hour of high pressure salesmanship, I told him that I now wanted the prize. The Balinese fellow called over his boss, a Dutch fellow who reluctantly agreed to give me the prize.
The prize turned out to be a voucher for a weeks accomodation in one of the three RCA hotels in Bali. The voucher had to be used within six months and I would have to pay an "administration fee" of $US20 per night to book the accomodation.
Of course, I never used the "prize".
Points of interest were:
* at no time in the presentation was the price of the timeshare mentioned despite my numerous requests; and
* the real purpose of those numerous people with their clipboards and free scratchies infesting Kuta was revealed - they gather details of tourists' names and room numbers, so that the tourists can then receive the phonecalls about their "prize".