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From: ofut@gitpyr.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.misc
Subject: Re: Does anybody know if Suncoast Travel's free vacation is legit?
Message-ID: <1523@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Mar-86 19:02:38 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  8 19:02:38 1986
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Reply-To: ofut@gitpyr.UUCP (Jeff Offutt)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia
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Summary: Probably trying to sell you a condo.

>
>	"I received a post card in the mail from Suncoast Travel
>	Holiday saying that I won a trip to Florida. I was to provide
                       :
>	in $69.50 to reserve my place and receive a book of coupons
>	worth $800.  This all sounded suspicious to me so I didn't send
>
>>It sounds like they're going to try to sell you a condominium.

Undoubtably.  My wife and I did something similar a few years ago.
I "won" the deal at the Knoxville world fair.  We spent a long
weekend at a very nice condo on the Florida panhandle playing
rich folks.  The only catch was that we spent about three hours
going through their sale routine.  (They were trying to sell
time share vacations where you "buy" rights to a place for two
weeks a year.)  We turned them down, as we were just entering
grad school and more than broke.

They were very nice, not _too_ hard sell, and quite unobtrusive
the rest of the time.  I don't remember the company, but it was
_not_ Suncoast Travel Holiday.

As an aside, the "tyme-share vacation" seemed sound from a business
perspective.  The main negative side is that you then feel obligated 
to spend two weeks a year at the same place.
-- 
Jeff Offutt
School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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