Timeshare is not a Financial Investment (Part 3)
January 8th, 2015
A Depreciating Asset Timeshares are like new cars: the second you drive them off the lot, they lose value. Timeshares loses between 40 to 85 percent of their value once you buy them. If cars depreciated that quickly, I doubt anyone would buy a new one without being subjected to timeshare-like sales tactics. If […]
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Timeshare is not a Financial Investment (Part 2)
January 8th, 2015
Rationalization for Buying a Timeshare. Is it some form of Investment? Most people who purchased timeshares were enticed and sometimes induced into the acquisition, indeed with the idea that owning one is an investment. They were persuaded to believe that owning a timeshare can greatly benefit a person, especially in the long run. The […]
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Timeshare is not a Financial Investment (Part 1)
January 8th, 2015
What is an Investment? An investment is a product or vehicle whereby your deposit (in this case your taxed money) into something on the understanding that you have chance of increasing your investment/deposit equity. Of course investments can go up or down and dependent upon the risk applied. The investment return, benefits and expectations […]
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Timeshare is not a Financial Investment
January 7th, 2015
What is an Investment? An investment is a product or vehicle whereby you deposit (in this case your taxed money) into something on the understanding that you have a chance of increasing your investment/deposit equity. The investment can go up or down: the return, benefits and expectations will vary and dependant on the risk applied. Large […]
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Financial Services UK or is it Woods & Woods? – Another fake Spanish court case
March 27th, 2024
How would you feel if out of the blue a court in Barcelona informed you that you had € 217,789.11 coming your way as the result of a case that you’ve had no knowledge of? As they say, never look a gift horse in the mouth. Problem starts with the fact that this gift horse […]
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Timeshare.com – Blowing smoke
March 25th, 2024
Every day of the week the TCA investigation team scour the internet for newsworthy comments surrounding the timeshare industry to keep you, our readers, up to date as to what’s hot and what’s not in the world of timeshare. Although we have seen, and glossed over, the website with a domain of www.timeshare.com the first […]
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Timeshare – A form of phantom wealth?
February 7th, 2024
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article titled “How to Buy a Week in Paradise for $1”. For the team here at TCA the article contained no real surprises. For a very long time now we have been saying that from a financial point of view, a timeshare purchase in monetary value terms drops […]
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Timeshare – Investment or not?
December 20th, 2023
We start with a refresher as to what, in basic terms, timeshare is. A timeshare is one of many ways to sort of get your hands on a holiday property. You pool your money with other people and each of you buys a share of time in the property each year. Note the emphasis on […]
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Buying or upgrading timeshare with finance – good or bad?
December 8th, 2023
With entry level timeshare rapidly approaching £20,000 it’s hardly surprising that few have that sort of spare cash lying around, therefore for the majority, finance is required. Here begins the first problem, lending for timeshare purchase or upgrades may only be financed on an unsecured basis. Despite your belief that you are purchasing an asset, […]
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Fractional timeshare – Investment or not?
November 17th, 2023
Back in May TCA published part 1 of this subject where we took an in depth look at the product from a timeshare perspective, the conclusion we came to was that the product was far from an investment in the conventional sense of the word. In the article we pointed out the over inflated price […]
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