Burning questions
Jun. 20th, 2005 08:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jianantonicWhy is this a headline?
• Prankster squirts water in Tom Cruise's face
CNN had all weekend to come up with exciting reports, and this is the best they can do? I mean, damn. There were only five headlines up there, and this was one of them. 18 Iraqis killed in Car Bomb, Natalee Holloway Still Missing, Tom Cruise gets splashed. Jesus.
What is the point of a pop-under? Why do people pay for that kind of advertising?
I'm going to advertise, but you'll only see my ad for a split second as it quickly dives out of sight behind all your other windows, and annoys the fuck out of you because it shuffles around all your open windows. Does ANYONE spend money on things advertised in popunders? Really?
Does anyone want to have a Mary Kay party? I'm feeling like doing one soon. Also I could really use the cash.
I've also been meaning to mention this for a while. As many of you already know, a time share salesman will say ANYTHING to get a sale. We've heard some whoppers over at the Nut, but lately, they've been BSing double time.
See, all last year, they promised people the water park would be open in May 2005. Well, guess what? No one ever planned for that. Here it is, June 2005, and it looks like we've got three more months of construction before the water park is open, at least, and the salespeople have some 'splainin' to do. In reality, there was no delay, they just never were shooting for May. But here are some of the best things we've heard about the "delay:"
Chris heard one saleslady say that the glass for the building was being shipped from Germany, and it got held up in customs. GLASS. Held up in customs. FOR TWO MONTHS. Nice.
Just yesterday, we heard a timeshare owner (fresh from his tour) speaking ever-so-solemnly about how he was excited about the park but he understands the delay what with the Indian burial ground problem. His sales rep had told him that while constructing the park, they dug up an ancient Indian burial ground, and we had to get permission from the city (it would be a fed issue anyway) to continue construction. The funny thing is, the guy didn't seem at all fazed that the park where his kids will play is constructed over a bunch of dead Native Americans.
THEN when we were laughing about that story, Kathy, the weekend manager, who agreed that it was the most ridiculous thing she'd ever heard, said that the Woodstone building actually WAS built on an Indian burial ground. Now, maybe I'm just a cynic, but before Woodstone was built, that whole part of the mountain was densely wooded. Most of the area still is. I never really thought of deep in the woods as a good place to dig a lot of big holes. Maybe the landscape was different back when the natives were using it...but...Kathy...sigh.
In addition to water park stories, we've heard, at one time or another, that any celebrity you can think of is an owner here. It usually goes something like this:
Salesman: So, you like movies?
Hopeless souls: Yeah!
Salesman: Who's your favorite actor?
Hopeless souls: Tom Hanks
Salesman: No way! Tom Hanks owns six weeks of time share here at Massanutten. This is like his second home!
We've also heard that Disney is going bankrupt and Great Eastern (the company that owns the nut) is buying them up.
Now, I've always thought that time share salespeople were the scum of the earth, but if you are STUPID enough to take anything they say as truth when they tell you that MASSANUTTEN is saving DISNEY's ASS, then you deserve to get taken.
"Why is my condo in such disrepair?"
"Oh, we're sorry, it's just that all our extra funds have been pumped into the whole Disney thing..."
Seriously.
And don't get me wrong, Massanutten is a fucking awesome place. But for the money you'll spend on a time share, why not buy a small vacation home instead? At least there's some equity in that, and you're not limited to one week of the year. We figured that to outright buy a whole year of timeshare at Massanutten, so that you could actually live in it, would cost over a million dollars, plus $500 for each week you own for maintenance fees. You would not be able to wire it for internet, your fireplace wouldn't work from April through November, and you'd only get one parking space. These units are like 1200 square feet. For a million bucks plus $500 weekly, you could buy one hell of a house. Just saying.
So today the plan is to do some calling. First Jer's grandmother and great-grandmother in Barren Ridge, then my folks, then back to the Barren Ridge area to play with Link and Carrie. And we're taking my car, because the AC works.
:)
Peace.
• Prankster squirts water in Tom Cruise's face
CNN had all weekend to come up with exciting reports, and this is the best they can do? I mean, damn. There were only five headlines up there, and this was one of them. 18 Iraqis killed in Car Bomb, Natalee Holloway Still Missing, Tom Cruise gets splashed. Jesus.
What is the point of a pop-under? Why do people pay for that kind of advertising?
I'm going to advertise, but you'll only see my ad for a split second as it quickly dives out of sight behind all your other windows, and annoys the fuck out of you because it shuffles around all your open windows. Does ANYONE spend money on things advertised in popunders? Really?
Does anyone want to have a Mary Kay party? I'm feeling like doing one soon. Also I could really use the cash.
I've also been meaning to mention this for a while. As many of you already know, a time share salesman will say ANYTHING to get a sale. We've heard some whoppers over at the Nut, but lately, they've been BSing double time.
See, all last year, they promised people the water park would be open in May 2005. Well, guess what? No one ever planned for that. Here it is, June 2005, and it looks like we've got three more months of construction before the water park is open, at least, and the salespeople have some 'splainin' to do. In reality, there was no delay, they just never were shooting for May. But here are some of the best things we've heard about the "delay:"
Chris heard one saleslady say that the glass for the building was being shipped from Germany, and it got held up in customs. GLASS. Held up in customs. FOR TWO MONTHS. Nice.
Just yesterday, we heard a timeshare owner (fresh from his tour) speaking ever-so-solemnly about how he was excited about the park but he understands the delay what with the Indian burial ground problem. His sales rep had told him that while constructing the park, they dug up an ancient Indian burial ground, and we had to get permission from the city (it would be a fed issue anyway) to continue construction. The funny thing is, the guy didn't seem at all fazed that the park where his kids will play is constructed over a bunch of dead Native Americans.
THEN when we were laughing about that story, Kathy, the weekend manager, who agreed that it was the most ridiculous thing she'd ever heard, said that the Woodstone building actually WAS built on an Indian burial ground. Now, maybe I'm just a cynic, but before Woodstone was built, that whole part of the mountain was densely wooded. Most of the area still is. I never really thought of deep in the woods as a good place to dig a lot of big holes. Maybe the landscape was different back when the natives were using it...but...Kathy...sigh.
In addition to water park stories, we've heard, at one time or another, that any celebrity you can think of is an owner here. It usually goes something like this:
Salesman: So, you like movies?
Hopeless souls: Yeah!
Salesman: Who's your favorite actor?
Hopeless souls: Tom Hanks
Salesman: No way! Tom Hanks owns six weeks of time share here at Massanutten. This is like his second home!
We've also heard that Disney is going bankrupt and Great Eastern (the company that owns the nut) is buying them up.
Now, I've always thought that time share salespeople were the scum of the earth, but if you are STUPID enough to take anything they say as truth when they tell you that MASSANUTTEN is saving DISNEY's ASS, then you deserve to get taken.
"Why is my condo in such disrepair?"
"Oh, we're sorry, it's just that all our extra funds have been pumped into the whole Disney thing..."
Seriously.
And don't get me wrong, Massanutten is a fucking awesome place. But for the money you'll spend on a time share, why not buy a small vacation home instead? At least there's some equity in that, and you're not limited to one week of the year. We figured that to outright buy a whole year of timeshare at Massanutten, so that you could actually live in it, would cost over a million dollars, plus $500 for each week you own for maintenance fees. You would not be able to wire it for internet, your fireplace wouldn't work from April through November, and you'd only get one parking space. These units are like 1200 square feet. For a million bucks plus $500 weekly, you could buy one hell of a house. Just saying.
So today the plan is to do some calling. First Jer's grandmother and great-grandmother in Barren Ridge, then my folks, then back to the Barren Ridge area to play with Link and Carrie. And we're taking my car, because the AC works.
:)
Peace.
