Let’s Start Holding People Responsible

For my last blog post of 2018, I’d like to talk about holding people responsible for their actions. 

Part of this is directed at consumers. It’s long past time to stop blaming timeshare salespeople for supposedly keeping you in a four hour sales pitch, “making” you buy something or holding your credit card and drivers license hostage. 

While these horrible practices are still widely employed, they can be easily stopped by consumers knowing and using their power. 

The second part of this is also directed at consumers, albeit in a different way. It’s way past time to use company names for something that happened, good or bad. You need to name names. 

Not everyone at a company or a resort is good or bad. The good ones need to be acknowledged and the bad ones stopped. 

Collectively, we need to find out who is responsible for the outdated marketing and sales tactics that too many resorts still use. Encounter a good salesperson?  Let’s hear their name. Your salesperson mislead you about the fact the timeshare was an investment that would appreciate?  Let’s hear their name. 

This goes for the people at the top as well. Wyndham doesn’t exist as an entity except in the legal sense. There’s a CEO, Director of Sales, etc.  Diamond Resorts doesn’t ‘do’ anything. Someone within the organization does and someone sanctions it. We need to hold these people responsible. 

Wishing all of you a safe, happy, healthy and scam free 2019.