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Westgate Timeshare Reviews

11/6/2012

21 Comments

 

Consensus from Around the Internet

Westgate Resorts began in the garage of David Siegel as Central Florida Investments, (CFI) but has since grown to become the largest privately-held timeshare company in the entire world. While the company has achieved titanic business status, the organization has long been the subject of consumer outrage, which can be most explicitly seen in online Westgate timeshare reviews. There are many websites that allow consumers to submit timeshare reviews, and the aggregate of these reviews relates to an overall score that determines an online presence and reputation for the company. While no one Westgate timeshare review can determine an accurate depiction of the company, the sum total tell a very frightening story, one that should drive many potential timeshare owners away from this company.

David Siegel has recently come under fire from employees, consumers, and other activists for his announcement that he would fire employees if Obama was elected. No matter one’s political views, this is seen as a coercion tactic to perhaps sway his own employees into voting for Romney, because their own livelihoods depend on this. Westgate Resorts employs over 6,500 people across the United States, with an annual revenue stream of nearly $1 billion. Needless to say, there are many employees out there who are frantic on this election day, and we will see if Mr. Siegel carries through on his imposing threats. While recent Westgate Timeshare Reviews have focused on this piece of information and have a taken a downturn in recent months, their online reputation was never glowingly positive. In fact, Westgate timeshare reviews have been some of the most devastatingly negative for the entire online community, and this began long before Mr. Siegel’s inflammatory remarks.

There have been many events over the course of Westgate’s history that has lead to such negative Westgate timeshare reviews. In 2009, Westgate Resorts was found guilty of violating the United States Telemarketing Rule in United States of America versus Westgate Resorts Ltd. Siegel had to pay a $900,000 settlement, and many Westgate timeshare reviews had complained of their telemarketing practices before this case was brought to light. Westgate Resorts was found guilty primarily on the charge of violating stipulations of the national “do not call” register. This was the largest subject of consumer outrage in Westgate timeshare reviews for quite some time, but it certainly has not been the last.

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Westgate timeshare reviews have not been flattering in recent days, even discounting those that focus on David Siegel’s recent election-based threats towards his employees. In fact, many of the recent Westgate timeshare reviews are based against these employees, who are often accused of bullying and pressuring consumers into purchasing their timeshares.

“We got three different people who came to our table and asked us over and over to buy some property that we NEVER even saw. I was so disappointed with this behavior and will NEVER tour with them again. They got mad and even rude with us for not buying what they had to offer but couldnt explain why everyone else got a tour and we didnt.”

-Quienna (Pissedconsumer.com)

While many Westgate timeshare reviews complain of similar interactions with disorganized and pushy sales people, the majority complain of actions that were taken after the contract was signed. Many consumers claim that Westgate Resorts is involved with timeshare fraud and make it a regular practice to scam their clients.

“The shower leaks, the toilet runs all night long, and the dishwasher leaks. I called maintenance and even talked to owner services - no fix and no new room. I repeat: if you are an owner, get everything in writing. When you make a reservation, have them send it to you in what actual building you will be in. I can't believe this is really happening. I can go on about once you're an owner, you're treated like **.”

-Dean (Consumeraffairs.com)

While no singular Westgate timeshare review tells the entire story of the company, the aggregate score and overall online reputation is staggering. Through research into user-based online reviews, Westgate Resorts will have to make major changes in order to negate their building reputation with the consuming public. This is especially true if David Siegel’s threats are carried out, and they will fire their employees based on the results of the national election.

21 Comments
David Siegel WestGate Resort Management link
12/15/2013 01:42:39 pm

In March,2009, we were on our way to Florida when we stopped at a roadside booth in northern Florida advertising cheap and free tickets to Disney World and Sea World attractions. We thought we were getting a great deal on tickets so we purchased some but had to set up an appointment to pick them up at Westgate Lakes Resort in Orlando, Florida.

After receiving a free breakfast, we found ourselves in the middle of a sales presentation to buy a timeshare from Westgate Resorts. We were not intending to purchase a timeshare but we listened to the sales pitch of Barry Gold. He told us that my fiance and I could save a lot of money on hotels and suites by using our Westgate membership benefits to stay in high class upstanding hotels and suites at a huge discounted rate. We were told that our membership would guarantee us rooms of equal or better value than those at the Westgate Resorts. We still were unsure of this purchase and really decided we didn't want to purchase a timeshare but Barry then brought his sales manager, Alicia Quiroga, to our meeting and lowered the price of our purchase to make it more appealing. They convinced us we would save a lot of money because we did so much traveling and also because my fiance drives truck he would be able to save a lot of money while on the road by calling Interval International to set up his hotel suites in upstanding high class hotels at a discounted rate.

During our travels this past summer to Colorado, we attempted to use this benefit for hotels but when we called Interval International to reserve a room, the representative from Interval informed us that was not her job to do so and that Westgate must have misinformed us and that was not part of their agreement with Westgate. She told us that Interval International could set up getaways and exchanges for 2 days or more at a time but that we had to get on-line to set up those services and they needed more than a day's notice to do so. When we told the representative from Interval that we were in the middle of Colorado at night and needed the services that we believed we purchased from Westgate, she directed us to a cheap, filthy, and roach-infested motel in a bad part of town.

The next day, I called Westgate Resorts to complain and they said they couldn't be responsible for what Interval International does because they are two separate companies. However, I informed the Westgate representative that we purchased the timeshare primarily because of the benefits we were told by Barry Gold and Alicia Quiroga we would get while traveling. She then asked if I got any of that in writing and I told her "no" because I thought they could be trusted that they were being honest about the benefits.

I'm a teacher and can only travel at certain times of the year and every time we've attempted to use our benefits, we were in the middle of "black out dates". We still haven't been able to utilize any of our benefits we thought we were purchasing from Westgate Lakes Resorts.

After many unreturned phone calls to Barry Gold, Alicia Quiroga, Dustin Vizueta, and many other Westgate representatives, we are just wanting to get rid of our timeshare at Westgate Lakes and be done with Westgate altogether. We have been lied to, misinformed, and conned out of too much money to trust anything they say anymore!!

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joe
1/27/2016 09:19:29 pm

Hi, my name is Joe. I just bought Westgate Timeshares
And tried to cancel them within the 10 day cancellation limit the State of Florida guarantees for Timeshares. Art, 720. 06. I was told I couldn't cancel because They said I bought one that was an upgrade from another person they had as a client. I call the State of Florida=and asked for an appt. To go over the Law and they directed me to the consumer of Professional Services. I have to meet with Westgate in the morning. I will go to the Senators office if they do not cancel. Its been 3 days since I purchased.
Thanks Joe

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Marcela
4/19/2016 01:19:52 pm

Please help it has been close to 30 days we bought a time share and was misrepresented. We were told we had benefits that we don't. ANd of course 5 day cancelation period over as well as they wont return or respond on who to contact. HELP

Harris
10/21/2016 09:07:15 am

It has been a few months, tried to plan a vacation and they completely ripped me off!! Did you get it worked out and how??

Lili link
4/16/2018 05:17:24 pm

Did you get it cancel ? Let me know please I bought mine on 4-14-18 send my cancellation certified mail to Orlando Florida I am from Utah I am still in the 5 day period so hopefully they respond

Tanisha
5/24/2018 11:14:27 am

Lily, we just got pushed into buying one. They wouldn’t take no for an answer. We are in the 5 day period and sending our letter of cancellation in. Were you able to cancel?

Andrea
8/31/2018 05:00:22 am

Ive been trying since day one to cancel.
No one has ever given me a return call or an explanation as to why I am still being charged for a timeshare i tried to cancel on the day It was purchased.

David Siegel WestGate Resort Management link link
12/15/2013 01:45:06 pm

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Mother Fucker, Asshole I hope he dies in Fucking Fire He took advantage of thousands of people.

Fucking Bastard

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James & Debra Gibson
8/11/2014 09:59:59 am

We also sat in a timeshare presentation in April 2014. Our sales rep was Badre Boss. He was very smoothtalking, & very convincing. We trusted him, & enjoyed the presentation. I wrote down the information concerning everything he promised us we were getting. But everytime I have called to make reservations for getawys, cruises, etc. We have been told different info than Badre told us. I have tried to contact him on his cellphone number he gave us, but he is unavailable, I left a message, but he has not called back. He even signed the paper with all the info on it. We had purchased the timeshare, but we have been lied to, deceived, & very frustrated over this. We wish we had never heard of Westgate. THE BIBLE SAYS ALL LIARS WILL HAVE THEIR PLACE IN HELL. People are going to have to pay for taking hard-working people's money, & not giving them what they promised. We could have taken a lot of vacations with the money we paid Westgate. We don't recommend anyone dealing with this company or probably any timeshare company.

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David Siegel/Westgate Resort Timeshare
8/11/2014 10:09:15 am

This goes with the previous comment from the Gibson's. It was intended for David Siegel not the Gibsons.

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Audrey
4/27/2016 08:09:30 pm

Westgate timeshare staff are beyond rude- I think they actually hate humanity. They promise a 90 minute presentation with no obligations and prize tickets at the end but then say you must stay 2-3 hours and listen and respond to their weird personal questions. "How did you two meet?" None of your damned business!

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Shamika
8/1/2016 06:28:28 pm

I was on a timeshare tour with Westgate Resort at Myrtle Beach on 07/29/2016. We purchase on the 07/29/2016, their sale pitch was amazing and the rooms were lovely. On 07/30/2016 we was approach by another company that offered timeshare. He said several things that made us research Westgate and other timeshares. We decided on 07/31/2016 to cancel the timeshare. On 07/31/2016 we returned to Westgate and spoke with Tatiana Gonzalez. We explained that we did not want the timeshare. She continued to try and persuade us to buy the timeshare at a lower price. She stated that everything was going to stay the same. We will continue to be able to use the timeshare every year while paying the maintenance fee every other year, and the same room as the previous timeshare we cancel, but something was very different about this transaction. We were signing all paper documents which the day before we sign everything electronically. I asked her for copies and she said okay but instead she handed it to me on a CD-ROM. I was wondering why would you take all that time to scan these papers on a CD-ROM instead making copies. I had kept the CD-ROM from previous cancel timeshare and I compared the documents with the newly purchased timeshare. It was an awful discovery; I was missing several documents and they scanned old information on the CD-ROM from the cancel timeshare. I was missing signatures on several documents plus the most important document was the Attorney Disclosure and several other documents are missing. I have asked them to cancel and the recorded calls states that it will be cancel. Tatiana Gonzalez acted on behalf of Ashley MCCLELLAND who was not present during this transaction on 07/31/2016. She also had someone else to notarize our signature that was not present in the room. We never met or heard of Amy E Lehman that notarized our signature. If this is not illegal information I do not know what else I need to prove regarding this company. I also have documents and recording from several calls in which I have spoken with Tatiana Gonzalez and others from the company.

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Lilia link
4/14/2018 08:58:26 pm

What happen with your timeshare did Tatiana cancel them what can I do I am so concern and desperate can you help me

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Tanisha
5/24/2018 11:17:04 am

Hi Lili, I’m absolutely sick over this. We bought one yesterday and I want to cancel. Were you able to cancel yours?

Jerry Pamplona
6/15/2017 06:40:59 am

We just got out of a Westgate Timeshare presentation in Las Vegas, and we did not buy the timeshare because I prefer to do research on the company before I buy anything. Judging from the comments made here, we are glad we did not buy. However, Westgate never said the presentation was for a timeshare until we were wined and dined with hotdogs and tostitos - yummy (sarcasm). We were offered a free show and dinner to sit through the presentation.
The presentation was a bit difficult, but we were shown property they said represented what we would get. For up to 2 hours they talked how great it was, but did not mention the price. Finally after 90 minutes we were offered the timeshare for $14,950, which dropped to $7000 as we balked. But I can get a lot of other deals for $7000, so we said NO.
So then we tried to get our "free" movie and dinner. We had a choice of three sub-par restaurants to choose from, and each restaurant only offered 3 entrees to choose from. So off we went to find one of the restaurants. It was located near Planet Hollywood, inside a huge mall. We sat down to eat (all told we walked 3 miles to find this place) and the waitress told us we needed to take our information to another place to get our food vouchers. We walked to that place, and they told us to come back tomorrow. That day we walked 8 miles. Prepare to do a lot of walking in Las Vegas!
We will try agin to get our vouchers, but I should mention that in the restaurant we first went to, we decided to get dinner anyway and we got the buffet. Pretty horrible food for $25/per. The restaurant is Pampas - recommend to say away.

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Lilia link
4/14/2018 07:47:33 pm

Were you able to cancel I just bought a time share today 4/14/2018 did I do wrong

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Marina Robles
8/6/2018 02:52:17 pm

We just went through a presentation in Vegas. Surprised to hear that Jerry Pamplona had a bad experience. We were treated very well. We got tickets to Bruno Mars. Dinner and cocktails before the show and transportation to and from the concert. Breakfast during the presentation was great. The evening after the presentation they provided dinner and coctails. Everything was great. We didn't commit because we wanted to think it over but after all of these reviews I doubt we'll commit to anything no matter how well we were treated.

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Richard
11/30/2018 06:08:49 am

They use online 3rd parties to get you in on a "no obligation" GUARANTEED only 90 min. presentation. Right-just try to pry yourself away after the 90 mins. are up. This is the standard typical timeshare scam. And guess what? I scammed these loser scumbags right back in order to get over $200 off of our Disney hopper pass for all 4 parks for 3 days.

Got a Venezuelan dude who has been in the country for 8 years. Thick accent, he could barely speak English. And he had to do in a room with lots of other scammers selling talking loudly over the top of loud 80s crap pop musica. Tried to get him to be "nice" since my who was with me is a Colombiana.

I told him I had never been in a timeshare presentation before (actually had gotten free car rentals in the past in St. Maarten and Cancun when doing much, much less low pressure presentations) but that I knew about them.

I shot down ever one of his arguments. We do long 3-4 day weekends, not full weeks at a resort. When we do 1 or 2 week trips, we rent a car and hit many cities (4 in a week in Iceland and 6 in 2 weeks in Spain) so timeshares are just not a match for us. We have no kids. We don't do cruises. We have a high income (unlike the poor trash strewn throughout the room that they were probably successful in scamming) so we can afford to stay at high end places if we want or at highly unique AirBnBs.

Yet he kept on and on with scenarios and #s that did not compute and that he was just making up. For example, I stated I wanted to cruise the Galapagos in a small ship. He said they had partnerships there. But alas, it was only a single hotel on an island. I said I wanted to go on safari. He said he had those but alas only in South Africa but I want to go on safari in Botswana or Tanzania.

Clearly upset that he was not going to make a sale, he started a Latin cultural standoff that my Colombiana wife immediately recognized by stalling and stepping away to chat with his peers and making us wait and wait. It was utterly infuriating and my wife stated "That's a cultural thing that Latinos do particularly to try to show up American gringos". I escalated twice to his managers and they were completely rude and verbally abusive. After 2 hours we finally got out there and on our way and "hopped" all around Disney World on their dime. Good for us, too bad for these criminal scumbags who should be prosecuted and jailed by the Florida AG dept.

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Sheryl
3/21/2020 08:57:23 am

Do NOT purchase a time share from Westgate! We try booking beachfront nearly a year in advance for New Year's and can't ever book anywhere we want to go for that date range. Funny how I can call and make a reservation myself and get what I want when I want it. Save your money and the hassle.
By the way, anyone want to buy mine?

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Adelia
4/22/2020 03:56:35 pm

Westgate is an extremely dishonest company and needs to be held accountable. Something needs to be done. It is so unfair how they bully people. They did that to me when I was 7 months pregnant! It made me sick and stressed.

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