I worked for Seaside in Galveston. I actually moved out to Galveston to be close to my job. I started selling write away, then all the sudden put on the back burner. I tried more training which I pissed off the Favourite girl who lied to the director and then he wouldn't put me out at all hardly. This led me to fall far behind on draw, which I had know idea. You don't find out about any money until you have been there for a few weeks wondering where it is. We were told not to say a word to new reps or they would take the redeye.

Finally one of the others needed help and I offered to drive them if I was allowed to go back out and sell. Well since then I started selling all the time and was put in the power group.

Guess what I lost my job because I had to go to court for a couple of hours on my regular scheduled day to work. I was told if I went I would be fired. Here I was with a fever and never had taken off sick and if I didn't show would be in contempt of court and arrested.

Then they added a day, well I was in school. Hmmm some others are also in school and get to come in at 12. You know what people? We aren't allowed breaks. The HR lady would come into the bathroom while I was on the potty telling me to take another tour, while some of the guys hid so they could protect their bonus's. I sold enough in two months that I was denied my bonus because I was forced to take other reps tours.

One day I couldn't breath or catch my breath as the HR lady jumped my case and demanded I go out and take another tour. Here I was gasping for air, hadn't had a break, and crying because I wasn't sure I was having a heart attack as I was verbally accosted further by this women and then forced to leave. Here I sat in the car crying because I couldn't breath or drive for over an hour. One of my friends kept me on the phone and convinced me to try and drive until I got home. My blood pressure was 179/113. Now you tell me if anyone deserves to be treated like this!

Even with some of the BS I always picked my tours up with a smile and was energetic. My people loved me as I over heard others saying I wish I had her.

You know what else? Some of my TO's were giving my sales to the VC councelors because they weren't making any money. Are you kidding me? All the time this happened as a matter of fact one tour said yes as her family was split up on tours. Well my TO excused me off my table and tried to give my sale to the new girl|. How do you like them apples|. You know I would have split the commission to be fair had he not tried to screw me over?.

Now I believed in the program, but knew nothing of the downfalls, so on a personal not I hope all my people were satified because I wasn't there long enough to know anything shabby from the financial part!.

Well to my disbelieve the director really let me down|. He fired me because I wssn't going to be there at a time when I really needed the support, then he lied to the unemployement people about my character, and other things.. Rudy you know what I never said one bad thing about you even after you fired me.. I was a good employee and I believed in you.

My girlfriend jokingly entered one of those contests set up in malls with the flashy cars and huge prizes, and got a phone call saying she was selected to win one of 4 prizes if she came out to a resort in Flint, TX and listened to some presentation.
She decided we should go, and we were both more than prepared to say no. We sat down one-on-one with one of their salespeople, and spent a good 45 minutes just answering questions about where and how often we like to vacation. After some basic math, she told us that over the next 20 years, we'd spend about $80, 000 on vacationing. Before telling us the price of this supposed 'great offer' she took us on a tour of the resort. It was nothing too special, and not many actual guests around. She was more than friendly the whole time, joking with us and incorporating other things we had told her previously into her spiel.
Once we sat back down and she told us the outrageous $3, 000+ down payment and $400+ a month payments, we said no. After that, she seemed to get a little distant and uninterested in us, now that she knew she wouldn't be getting her commission off our purchase. She called a manager over, who was supposedly from a different department and was just helping out. He too was very friendly and jovial, and said he wanted to find a way to help us afford this timeshare.
He came back with what was, in comparison to the first set of numbers, a great deal. It was an old deed, bought years ago when the resort was nothing but construction, that had been sold in order to upgrade. He said he was able to offer it to us for roughly $8, 000, and included bonus time and an RCI upgrade option. Basically, any time during our "blue week" period (the "starter" time period, which included early January-mid March, and mid November-mid December), we could come out for a few days at a time during the week and stay at no charge. Nice perk, I guess, if you don't mind the weather during most of that time period. What really got us whas the RCI exchange program. He pulled out a huge book, opened it to a random page, and showed us multiple 5-star resorts in exotic placed that we could stay in at any time of the year, for only $199.
Once he checked my credit, he gave us a small down payment, and very low monthly payments, and we were sold.
We signed the papers, played a scratch-off card for one of the prizes we initially came for, and were on our way home.
In that 2-hour drive, however, it hit us that we were now tied down into a 7-year loan, with a high interest rate, and were probably not going to fit much vacationing into the very limited blue time frame. I read into the contract, found that we had 6 days to cancel, and had two letters of cancellation in the mail, both to the resort and the corporate offices, the next day.
Don't get fooled by these great "one time" deals they offer at these presentations. I can guarantee they would give you the exact same deal any other time you came in if it meant getting your business. I've read enough stories from satisfied owners to know that you CAN get what you pay for, but other times, it's just flashy sales tactics and supposed great deals that no one else would be able to get, just to keep you from walking away.
This is not something that should be decided in the couple hours they talk to you, especially with salespeople pressuring you. You CAN cancel these loans without damage to your credit, and if they try to tell you otherwise, don't listen. If you cancel within your state's "cool-off period", there is legally nothing they can do to keep you in the contract.
If you made the same mistake I, and other people, have, there is a way out.

The Service I got from mrs boyd sucked!!! She is a very rude *** excuse my language but facts are facts. I was trying to get some help my wife lost her job and was need some type of assistance. Mrs boydtold me to deal with it thats life. Asked to talk with someone else she stated I am the manager asked to talk to someone higher she got smart and stated if you cqll ford and ask for the ceo are you goin to talk to them. I just asked to speak with someone else rather than her. I hung up called back yet I was transfered to mrs boyd she refused to give me her full name when I asked. Im very upset im calling to get some help yet this is what im told. Mrs boyd then states I will not talk to anyone but her. I told her I will report to Bbb someone will hear me out mrs boyd said do what you have to do if your not paying we dont need to talk do we and hung up in my face

You were reading a complaint about Silverleaf Resorts.

Filing a new complaint about
We were told that they will waive membership fees if we buy the day we did.

Salesman signed the waiver and put the form in the yellow folder, after we got home the form was gone and now they are demanding membership fees and late payment fees on top of it.

They press us so much that they even convince us to have Bank of America credit card and pay the full amount with it.

I would like to know how do I get out of this contract?

On top of it all, they promised that payments start on January of 2012. And Bank is demanding payments now.

Silverleaf is nothing but a scam! These people lure you in and lead you to believe you are getting a great deal and all these wonderful things...then you get locked in and that's when you realize that you are NOT getting what you paid for! They will kiss your butt until you have a complaint then they talk down to you and make it seem like you are the problem, not them...WTF who does that??? I guess they don't care how they treat you at that point because they will get their money, regardless of how you feel about it. If you haven't sold your soul to these people yet, DO NOT do it! I promise you, you will regret it if you do!!