Day 132 The hard sell!

Tuesday 31/07/2018 Day (Day 45 SZ) Karma Borgo Di Colleoli Via Panoramica 20 56036 Palaia Colleoli (PI) Tuscany Italy

Today we have a meeting with a Jeffery our sales consultant.... he like all the others believes he can give us more for our Buck...

So after a morning of fiddling around with bits and pieces we met him at 10.30am for Coffee...These guys are trained to be your friend always are easy to chat to and always know how to make you feel your important... they are paid to do that...as he says we have 2 jobs... one is to help orientate you to the Resort your in and the other is to help you get the best out of your membership... when they say that it always means up grading and that means money...for the life of me I am over these talks... if I could have a chat and a drink with them I could cope with that... but this hard sell stuff is sorry to be blunt pissing me right of.....

You know that to have a cheap holiday and yep this is cheap @$99US for the week cheap and we know it is..that there is a trade off and that is we paid big bucks to be part of it and we pay a maintenance fee every 2nd yr to get these great deals...... so at the end of the day what is a good deal still costs in the long run... are we ahead probably this year yes...and their specials we have been grabbing at $99US aren’t always that cheap.. in fact a lot are going up to $199US that still is cheap compared to say $800-1,000 a week in a resort at home......my point is that they don’t want you to just be happy with what you have they are always pushing to get more...

When we first applied for this Resort to come the price was$199US a week as we were one of the first 25 we got it for the cheaper price our bonus I think... but Jeffery had to keep reminding us, had we come here not on a deal it would have been for club members $799US... well it wasn’t and we did get a deal and I felt we shouldn’t feel guilty because we did... while we sat with him his sales pitch to us felt plausible, but after we left and I had to request we go away and discuss it.. as John said we are getting exactly what we want from it by using there hot deals... we can take friends with us... Jeff kept telling us in the points we have places like this we can’t access on our points.. true but on hot deals like we have we can so what more do you want...

We aren’t greedy we are happy with our lot... by the time I left I was very emotional which John was finding hard to cope with the fact I was.... so once we got back to our room I just fell into a heap..... John for the life of him couldn’t understand why... jolly women... but we had been through this process every single place we stay and only been through it with Andrew in Bavaria... plus he told us to our face he was warned we were tough customers and hard to sell to... the more we are with this club as great as the resorts are and they really are amazing for all the upside the downside of the hard sell is getting to me... I am starting to think how many more times do I have to do this shit... for the sake of cheap accommodation..... for now we need the cheap accomodation so we will have to cope but maybe some thinking time will help...

For the afternoon I did the Blog and when it was time to go and see Jeff to give him our answer I just couldn’t go, so I headed off around the roads to take some pics... I had thought we had better views here than we do... after walking a fair bit I had done what I could and the heat was intolerable so I headed back... by then John was home and had done the deed. I went to get my glasses and realised I had lost them..

Buggar really.... so I had to go back to all the places I had been, plus more to just make sure I hadn’t dropped them... I was sure they had been run over, I walked and prayed, walked and prayed.... hotter and sweater than I was before... I had gone to the car park before to check but went back again as I had spent some time in amongst the Olive Grove taking pics over the valley... Just as I was about to give up I walked to another spot I didn’t even think I had stood... I was about to turn around, when I had an instinct to look down, and just out if the corner of my eye 👁 I could see a glimmer and thank The Lord it was them..... You have no idea how much I thanked God for yet again looking after even the silly little things in my life... And He does time and time again His mercies are amazing.... this was about an hour of looking now nearly 6pm and John had been looking for me as well and couldn’t find me. But like a bad smell I always return... it’s been a very emotionally draining day today... maybe it hasn’t needed to be and it hadn’t helped I keep forgetting to take my Natural hormone therapy which does work.. me being so emotional has proved it works.. I am usually not this bad...

A rest and then we had our own nibbles here in the room again.... been a big emotional day..Leia mais