Comments on: Best of: A parable about advice (not just financial)

By: Carnivals of Sorts | Working Hard On The Internet

Carnivals of Sorts | Working Hard On The Internet — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:34:18 +0000

[...] 0 Comments submit_url = “http://nothowtodoit.com/2008/07/31/carnivals-of-sorts/”; Friday I will be publishing a Carnival of Catastrophic financial advice, where I asked fellow financial bloggers to send me in their worst financial advice story, the stories are interesting, but no one bares their souls as I did a few weeks back in Worst Financial Advice Given Ever . [...]

By: Canadian Personal Finance Blog » Blog Archive » Worst Financial Advice Given

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:13:12 +0000

[...] During these discussions the topic of time share condominiums came up and that led me to tell this story (which I previously published here). [...]

By: nancy (aka money coach)

nancy (aka money coach) — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:36:00 +0000

ha ha ha – and I’m with Telly. It reminds me of my own very worst ever insert-foot: my then prospective boss took me out for a wine & dine. We both love classical music. He asked what I thought of Fur Elise and thinking I was speaking peer to peer said I didn’t care for it that much (I don’t. what can I say). Honest to god, turns out his estranged daughter made a tape of herself playing it on the piano, and gave it to him.. before she passed away. How could I possibly recover from that one??

By: telly

telly — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:07:00 +0000

These “presentations” can be found quite easily in Florida and Mexico. I’ve never thought it was worth wasting 1/2 to a full day of my precious vacation time to attend one. I guess I’m just not THAT frugal.

BCM, my lesson learned from this story would have been, open mouth and insert foot. I wouldn’t feel guilty for giving him the idea to attend one of these sessions. It could have very easily happened anyway. The unfortunate part is what you inadvertantly said afterwards! OOPS!

By: MillionDollarJourney

MillionDollarJourney — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:36:00 +0000

BCM,

LOL, i’m interested in the time share presentations that offer free stays and food if you attend the presentation. I’m not interested in purchasing what they’re pitching, just what they’re giving out for free. Derek Foster talks about them in his book.

By: Big Cajun Man

Big Cajun Man — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:33:00 +0000

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

They offer large monetary commitments and many hidden service fees, and you lose 2.5 hours of your life.

If you want to attend one, simply check into a Motel in Florida someone there will aim you at one of these “presentations”.

By: MillionDollarJourney

MillionDollarJourney — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:29:00 +0000

CFS,

How did you go about finding these time share presentations? What other perks do they offer? My wife and I are all about getting free stuff.