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🗓️ 6 August 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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How does timeshare holiday ownership work and what should you find out before signing up?
On Wednesday’s Money Box Live Louise Cooper and guests look at the costs and considerations of timeshare holidays.
We’d love to hear from you too. If you’re thinking of becoming a timeshare owner send us your questions and if you’ve already got one please share your wisdom! e-mail [email protected] now.
On the panel:
Laura Johnston, Adviser, UK International Consumer Centre Paul Gardner Bougaard, Chief Exec, Resort Development Organisation
Presenter: Louise Cooper Producer: Sally Abrahams Editor: Alex Lewis
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0:00.0 | On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation. |
0:07.0 | It was an extraordinary news story. |
0:09.0 | The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny, |
0:14.0 | mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared. |
0:18.0 | One of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for |
0:21.7 | Loken. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. I'm Alex Fondonzzlement. This is |
0:27.8 | the Lukan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Welcome to the download of Moneybox Live, the program about your money. Today, it's all about |
0:41.6 | timeshares, a fantastic way to get a great holiday or not quite what you bargained for. |
0:47.9 | Back to the bad, high-pressure sales tactics of the 1980s or a modern way to take a vacation. Well, it all depends on who you talk to. |
0:57.3 | And at Moneybox, we have heard for many listeners who are unhappy. But as ever, we want your |
1:02.4 | experiences, your stories and concerns. Please email Moneybox at BBC.co.com.uk. And FYI, |
1:10.3 | a timeshare, is where you buy the right to holiday in an apartment |
1:14.1 | or hotel normally for a number of weeks the year. One listener in the unhappy camp is 83-year-old |
1:22.4 | Jeffrey, who bought a timeshare about 15 years ago. Welcome to Moneybox Live, Geoffrey. |
1:28.5 | Hello. Take us back to that time. How did you buy this time share? |
1:35.8 | Yes, well, I'd gone to Malta for my first holiday there and walking along the sea front, |
1:41.8 | I was stopped by Touts, I would think you would call them, |
1:45.3 | and approached to put my name to a document, |
1:49.1 | said that I was a part owner of a complex. |
1:53.2 | That's what they put it down to. |
1:55.5 | And how much money did you hand over? |
1:58.3 | How quickly did it all happen? |
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