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Helping Your Buyer Make A
Selection
Depending what you or your company has to offer, you may need
to help your buyer accept a plan or unit that is right for his
circumstances. The process of doing this involves finding out
what he expects to receive for his money, who will be
vacationing with him, what kind of amenities he wants in a
timeshare, and whether there will be children and the ages. You
do, after all, want to cater to your buyer’s needs because in
the competitive timeshare market, failure to do that will send
your buyer to a competitor who is willing to provide what your
interested buyer wants or needs.
When helping your buyer select a timeshare, do not attempt to
mislead him. If he wants something you cannot provide, tell him
the truth and let him decide how important that is. If he likes
the rest of the amenities, he may overlook something you cannot
provide, especially if it is minor. In some cases, you may even
be able to accommodate. For instance, if he wants a
refrigerator with an icemaker, and your units don’t have
icemakers, perhaps on his weeks there, you can provide an
icemaker for his unit, or if he will always be staying in the
same timeshare as some people do, you may want to change the
refrigerator to one that has an icemaker to make the
sale.
On the other hand, if your buyer has four children and a wife,
and his brother, wife, and their two children always go on
vacation with you, and you do not have more than three bedroom
units that will not comfortably accommodate ten people, be
honest with him, even if it means recommending a timeshare that
can meet his needs. He will respect you for it and recommend
you to someone who is looking for what you can offer.
The most important thing you can do for the interested buyer is
help him and his family find the timeshare that will make them
happy and give them pleasure on their vacations. Do not try to
talk them into something you have just to make the sale unless
your buyer is willing to compromise. Offer him something else,
and let him decide if he is willing to accept that instead of
what he had already decided.
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