Larry V.
Wyndham isn't about vacation ownership, it is a predatory sales operation.
My wife and I have been Club Wyndham owners since our 2011 purchase in South Lake Tahoe, and over the years we've sunk roughly $200,000 into this timeshare. We wish we'd never signed that first contract. We're spontaneous travelers, and Wyndham's booking system, which often requires reservations a year out, has never fit how we actually vacation. Every "owner update" or sales presentation we've been pulled into has turned into a high-pressure ordeal. We've dealt with unprofessional behavior from staff, including one salesman who broke down crying and yelled at us simply because we said no. More recently, sales reps have pushed us hard toward third-party resale platforms like Vacation Share, RedWeek, and ResortShare, framing our points as an investment we could flip for cash rather than something we use to travel. It all came to a head on June 27, 2026, at the Oceanside Pier Resort. Our salesman, spent four hours (over what was supposed to be lunch) convincing us to upgrade to Club Wyndham Access points, even pulling up a logged-in RedWeek account to show us how we could resell them for thousands of dollars a weekend. We walked away having paid a $15,614 down payment and signed for $69,084 in new debt plus $55,334 in finance charges. At no point did he mention our rescission/cancellation rights. Instead, immediately after we signed, he asked us to call him back on July 13 about trading points, a call that conveniently distracted us until the 7-day cancellation window quietly expired. When I called him back as instructed, he suddenly "didn't remember" any of it and denied ever offering to help us trade our points. This isn't vacation ownership. It's a predatory sales operation designed to extract money from people under pressure, with no real transparency about cancellation rights and no follow-through on promises made to close the deal. We now are trapped by debt and mounting maintenance fees for something we were misled into signing.
