Reading the Fine Print at Bluegreen

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“Read the fine print!” 
 
Always good advice when it comes to legal contracts, advertising, and especially websites.
 
Because the fine print is where you find the most important information, the key details they hope you won’t read.
 
And that’s how we know Bluegreen Vacations agents willingly make outlandish promises just to close a sale – because the promises they speak out loud contradict the fine print on Bluegreen’s own website!
 
Promises like the ones they made to Trudy, who filed a complaint against Bluegreen with the Better Business Bureau. 
 
“Zero hospitality can be found at Bluegreen Vacations.”
 
That’s quite the start.
 
If you think for one second that you are safe, just because you are in the Smoky Mountains away from the hustle and bustle, surrounded by good folks, heads up. You are a sitting duck.” 
 
“We went on what we thought would just be a weekend getaway and were bullied into 5-plus hours of browbeating, high pressure sales tactics.”
 
So, what made Trudy finally give in to Bluegreen after holding out for more than five hours?
 
One of the main pitches thrown at you by Bluegreen employees is that these are not timeshares.
 
That’s odd…because when you go to the Bluegreen website and scroll alllllll the way down to the bottom, you’ll find this simple sentence among the small type:
 
“THIS ADVERTISING MATERIAL IS BEING USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF SOLICITING THE SALE OF TIMESHARE INTERESTS”
 
Huh. 
 
So, it turns out, Bluegreen IS a timeshare company!
 
It says so right there in the fine print!
 
But the Bluegreen agents told Trudy:
 
“‘Don’t think of these as timeshares and get that thought out of your head!’”
 
“These are, instead, properties for us to invest in.”
 
“As property owners, we’d see our investment pay for itself almost immediately.”
 
That sounds pretty good! 
 
In fact, it sounds so good, you would think that Bluegreen would put that pretty high on its list of benefits of ownership, which we found after digging around on the website.
 
But, no, that page doesn’t include “good investment” as a benefit of Bluegreen ownership.
 
“None of that ended up being true.” 
 
They have conned us out of over $100,000 and counting.”
 
That’s $100,000’s worth of broken Bluegreen promises.
 
We feel for Trudy.
 
And we have a suggestion for Bluegreen president and CEO Alan Levan
 
Maybe all that stuff about Bluegreen actually being a timeshare company shouldn’t be denied by the sales agents…or buried in the fine print…or hidden on the website. Let’s email Alan at alan.levan@bluegreenvacations.com and tell him Bluegreen and its agents need to start telling the truth up front.
 
We should also contact Jason Gamel, the President and CEO of the American Resort Development Association (ARDA), which represents the timeshare industry in Washington, DC. He’s supposed to promote the timeshare industry. Let’s email him at jgamel@arda.org and ask why he thinks of Bluegreen tries to hide the fact that they are a timeshare company.
 
Did your timeshare company pretend it wasn’t a timeshare? Use this list of timeshare VIPs published by ARDA to let your company’s leaders know you’re on to their tricks.
 
Does Judy’s story sound familiar? Share what your timeshare company buried in the fine print at info@timesharefacts.com
 
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