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I respectfully suggest first spending many hours (if not weeks or months) reading through the discussion forums on the Timeshare Users Group web site before jumping into these shark infested waters. There is more timeshare knowledge and experience openly shared on that one web site than exists or is available from every other timeshare information source on the planet COMBINED. It's a FREE education, but you still have to exert the effort to absorb the information to BECOME educated. Whatever you do, DO NOT buy directly from ANY developer. Never mind the free rubber chicken lunches, airfare or lodging discounts, free tablet, passes, coupons or gift cards --- you would still grossly overpay for something which, as already noted above, literally has little (or no) resale value immediately after you buy it. The bottom line is that ANYTHING offered by ANY timeshare developer (at ridiculous, truly obscene prices) can be purchased in the secondary (resale) market for pennies on the dollar. There is NO difference in the product in the final analysis. A timeshare is a timeshare, regardless of purchase source. Enough said. P.S. One thing you must never conveniently overlook about timeshares is that after the initial purchase, regardless of purchase source, there are annual maintenance fee obligations to which you are legally committed for as long as you remain the owner of record. It is reasonable to expect that annual maintenance fees will increase by an average of 4-6% per year, each and every year, regardless of what or where you purchase. Please make the effort to fully educate yourself before buying ANYTHING, or you will surely regret a hasty decision later --- possibly for many years. Personally, I would NEVER attend any such "presentation" AT ALL, but it seems that you are bound and determined to do so. Just be prepared to discover that those alleged "free tickets to Hawaii" will still have some attached fees, as well as a laundry list of very difficult usage restrictions. Ultimately, there is no "free lunch". Forewarned is forearmed. Good luck.