| Ok, we’re weird. We find reading lawsuits kinda interesting. Particularly this one. A group of people in Knoxville, TN say the “Westgate Resorts business model invites fraud.” The lawsuit alleges Westgate uses “…a high-pressure scheme that involves convincing prospective purchasers to buy into its vacation timeshare program while failing to disclose material and legally required information to buyers.” This lawsuit claims: “Westgate sales agents pressure purchasers to sign a series of complex and misleading legal documents; only months later, when the new timeshare owners attempt to reserve vacation time in “their” unit, do they learn that Westgate sold them something entirely different than what Westgate told them they had purchased.” And this lawsuit highlights the Westgate Resorts Vice President Richard Siegel saying Siegel “…has been captured on video telling sales agents to “lie” in order to complete a sale: “You should own at least one week yourselves—and if you don’t, lie and say you do! Don’t let these people leave here without buying something! Something!” he said. “100% of the people we are talking to are—it’s not a nice word, but we call ‘em mooches. They’re coming in for a sales presentation on their vacation for a free gift. So we train our sales people on how to take someone greedy like that and get them to buy today. We do 100% of our sales on the first day . . . They will not buy today if they don’t get a ‘great deal’ [making air quotes]—if they don’t believe that they’re getting a great deal…. Timesharing you sell every unit 52 times because you sell it by the week.” Got a Westgate horror story? You can email it to the Westgate CEO, David Siegelat david_siegel@wgresorts.com. You can :cc in Jim Gissy too … jim_gissy@wgresorts.com. He’s a big Executive VP at Westgate. We’d also like to see your story too. Send it to us at info@timesharefacts.com. PS: Follow us on social media. Twitter Facebook Instagram |
