We just returned from Bluegreen Club 36 in Las Vegas. We knew it was a timeshare pitch when we signed up. We had the privilege of staying on the property. My husband and I loved the room. It was beautifully set-up with a living room, dining area, mini kitchen and large bathroom. The people that worked the front desk were friendly and inviting. The only downfall came when we attended the 90 minute presentation which lasted 3 hrs and 45 mins. They started off with a comedian who was very funny and informative (best part of the presentation). We were given a young man who said he was new (which according to the posts seems to be a theme). He was quite nice though. However once we were presented with the 20, 000 point plan for $32K, we said no. Then it went to 8, 000 pts for $9, 900 to finally a two year 12, 000 point plan for $3K. We were adament that we would not sign up for a vacation program because we had two high school graduates starting college in the fall. The "supervisor" flat out told us that we could afford it. When initially presented with the $32K plan, my husband said that he would not pay $500 a month, maybe half that would be better. However after discussing it alone, we agreed to pass altogether. Mr. Supervisor said "when you said you could afford half of the $500 monthly payment, what happened to that... were you lying?" The "soft sale" became very hard. Honestly, the only option is to just get up and walk out. These pressure sales rely on the fact that many people are raised to be polite and won't tell them to just shove it. Finally the young man in his continued attempt to "sell us", he said "You can always make more money, but you can't buy more time." I interrupted him and said, "You are exactly correct and that's why I don't want to waste anymore here. I want this to be over NOW."

All that being said, it was a nice facility and 3 days in Vegas. All the people were not bad. Even though they told us the facility in Vegas was for owners only, we found online that you can rent a room there for a hellva lot less than $32K for 10 years At 17% interest.

I've started a Facebook page in the hopes of starting a class action lawsuit like the one in Pennsylvania. Were you lied to at your sales pitch? Join the movement to get a class action lawsuit going. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_180578055325962

No matter what the contract says the sales pitch must be honest or it is ILLEGAL! End of story. It’s not the fault of the consumer who has been swindled. Christmas mountain sales staff makes the characters of Glengarry Glen Ross look like saints. Deceptive sales practice are also illegal in most states.

Federally it is illegal to engage in deceptive sales practices. A sale is deceptive if it.

1. Represents that goods or services have sponsorship, approval, characteristics, ingredients, uses, benefits, or qualities that they do not have. (How many were convinces they would receive some service they did not receive? The ability to rent points via blue greens web page.)

2. Represents that goods or services are of particular standard, quality, or grade, or that goods are of particular style or model, if they are of another. (How many were shown the cleanest and best unit only to find that all the other units are not as nice)

3. Disparages the goods, services, or business of another by false or misleading misrepresentation of fact (How many were told how that “other” time share was so horrible?”)

4. Makes false or misleading statements of fact concerning the reasons for, existence of, or amounts of price reductions. (How many were told that there bonus weeks were being “thrown in” as a means to get them to buy. Every time you said no, they offered to throw in something that really came with every sale.)

5. Engages in any other conduct which similarly creates the likelihood of confusion or of misunderstanding. (How many knew exactly what they were getting from the sales pitch? Not the contract signing, but the sales pitch)

That's just to mention a few. If you had any of these happen to you, then BG broke federal law, The Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act, and most likely state laws as well. Furthermore the Pennsylvania judge ordered them to STOP.

I’ll be starting a Facebook page for people who want to join the class action law suit to go to. And taking out ads on face book to gather people. Alone you are just a swindled owner. United we can bring a case all the way to the federal level.

our bluegreen is paid for, i have just had my tenth surgey and can not use the vacation no more i have try to be nice i tried to just give them the title back and they wont take it i mean i, m the one losing the money here the people saying nice thing, s about bluegreen just wait they will get you i have allways paid my bills but i am not going to pay for something i am not using bluegreen did lie to us so just wait till hard times fall on you and even if i was able to go on vaction we could not aford to go because fo the finical mess that bluegreen has gotton us in to they never had a place for us when we wanted it

My husband and I bought into the Bluegreen resorts in 2005. For the first couple of years, it was nice. We actually upgraded our ownership to the Gold status, 30, 000 points a year. After that it has been all downhill. Maintenance fees have more than tripled. Resort quality has declined drastically. One example, we spent time in Orlando last summer, theoven in condo did not work correctly, electric sockets did not work, no cooking appliances/utensils in kitchen to speak of, not even a frying pan. They are giving free weeks to anyone who wants one, hence all kinds of riff raff in the pool area to the point I had to stay with my granddaughter in the pool, not just on the pool deck. Customer service is non-existant. If you are unhappy, they do not care. We are $40, 000 in the hole. Can't sell the thing, no one wants it.
Don't buy Bluegreen, and if you are not convinced, just take over the maintenance fees on mine, the mortgage is paid off. You can have it.

My husband and I went to Peigon Forge for our Blue Green presentation. First of all we had to drive for miles to get to the Vistor Center to pick up our paper work. We got our paper work and I was excited to find out we were staying at Laurel Crest. This was until we open the front door to the room. Entered into the front door to find a double bed (I'm 6' tall and my husband is 6'3) with a window for everyone that walks by to look staight in. The bedding looked like something out of a Motel 6. The bathroom was so small that we had to take turns getting dressed (only the one mirrow in the bathroom). The bedroom was so small that the DOUBLE bed was right upside the wall. Just a disappointment.

We arrived 20 min. early for our 90 min. presentation and ended up being there for 3 hours. One of the first things we were told was that BG would not pressure us into buying anything. After 6 times of my husband telling them we didn't want to buy anything we were treated to a very rude saleman who had been nice up until our last no.

We explained to the salesman at the beginning that we were disappointed in the room and this room looked nothing like the rooms in the presentation. As a matter of fact Laurel Crest was not even shown in the presentation. And it is amazing how many packages they can pull out of their hat when to begin with you only have a few to choose from.