Timeshare USA – Diamond/Hilton Transitions, does it work?
First off, it’s refreshing that any developer takes the subject of exiting a timeshare head on and makes steps to allow application to exit. The transitions scheme came about in 2016 when the Arizona Attorney General’s office reached a settlement requiring Diamond to establish a relinquishment program. Arizona timeshare owners who met certain basic criteria […]
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Timeshare USA – Hilton Grand Vacations to acquire Bluegreen Vacations
News has just broken that HGV is to acquire Bluegreen Vacations for a reported $1.5B. After the recent takeover of Diamond Resorts, there seems to be no stopping the expansion programme of HGV in the world of timeshare. Bluegreen has 49 resorts across 19 States which no doubt will be merged into and be renamed […]
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Timeshare – The power of the negative
Many years ago the author of this article held a senior management position with a large financial services company. Said company decided to introduce an annual staff appraisal programme and then put all management through an appraisal training course. One point that sticks in the memory of the author is the tutor explaining the power […]
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Timeshare USA – Diamond at it again
Today we will keep this article short and sweet. In the past, we have reported on a number of occasions that Diamond Resorts, recently acquired by Hilton Grand Vacations, are not backward in coming forward in filing lawsuits against exit companies for, amongst other things, Tortious Interference. Well, they’re at it again. Recently a suit […]
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Timeshare USA – Hilton step up sales drive
We recently reported on an interview with Sam Gurnik CEO at Hilton Grand Vacations. In the interview, Mr Gurnik was explaining how Hilton were using tech to profile those who may be more likely to buy timeshare or those who would more easily succumb to the “up sell”. From information we have found, it appears […]
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Hilton Grand Vacations – An interesting interview
An American online site, Skift published an interview with their journalist, Sean O’Neill and CEO of HGV, Sam Gurnik. HGV are rapidly becoming one of the largest players in the timeshare industry especially when taking into account their recent acquisition of Diamond Resorts. In many respects Sam Gurnik is just confirming the way the timeshare […]
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Craigendarroch Owners’ Club – A new twist
On numerous occasions we have reported that, in general, the sale of new timeshare in Europe is on the decline, the same may be said of the UK. The “staycation” market saw a cosmetic bounce when Covid travel restrictions were in place but since these have been lifted, the run for the sun has returned. […]
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Diamond Resorts lying? – Certainly not
An all too common sad tale came to our attention recently. A former timeshare owner with Diamond Resorts Europe decided in 2014 that enough was enough. The maintenance fee for the timeshare owned, originally purchased with Grand Vacation Club in 2002 which then morphed into Sunterra and then into Diamond Resorts had risen from £395 […]
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Timeshare resales – Good or bad?
There is a certainty that if you are considering buying a timeshare then the resale market is the place to look. Many developers will put reasons as to why buying direct from them has advantages, inferring that buying second hand has disadvantages. In a number of cases this is true, however because of the enormous […]
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Timeshare USA – The return of the telephone numbers?
The Irish writer George Bernard Shaw once said: ‘England and America are two countries divided by a common language’, the same may be said of timeshare in a roundabout way. Here we look at not just England but Europe. As we have often reported, timeshare sales in Europe are at the lowest point for decades, […]
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