What papers do you get and need to save? How do you leave at the time limit if they keep talking?
Is it as simple as setting your phone’s timer to two hours at the start, and telling them you will be walking out of there at that time?
I could probably never convince DH to sit through one of these due to horror stories of 2-hour presentations going on for 5 or 6 hours!
If you are staying on an extremely cheap rate or free with the requirement to attend a meeting, there is absolutely NO GUARANTEE of how long you have to stay. You have to stay until they sign you off to leave to keep the rate. Many, if not all, will revert the room fee to the rack rate if you do not go through the sign offs. Its that little print in the contract for that rate. The only one I went to started off as lunch. The time at lunch does not count towards the time. Once they have everyone, they go through the spiel, try to be your best friend, and try to sell you on the joys of spending $20k - $100k for vacations.
For this one time, we were the most intelligent in the room. They tried throwing little jokes/activities to see how smart people are. They tried to be cute and get everyone to like them. Believe me, it works for those that are not educated. The one thing the guy said at the beginning is 1-in-5 buy into it by the end of the presentation. There were 5 groups there and he asked which it would be. I responded back that it wasn't us, at least he laughed. After the 60 minute spiel, they haul the group off to look at the most prestigious room in the timeshare. It was a 4BR Presidential. Everyone in splendor and they say it is easy to stay in it for a week every year. We were quickly separated from the group so as not to influence their "No" decisions. We get back to the main building to start going through the Hard Sell. Before he started, I asked him to provide the annual MF for the room we had for the week. It was a 1BR for 7-nights. I do not recall the points, but it was something like 120,000 with the VIP discount who we rented from. The Hard Sale Guy said it was about $1,000. Because I rented from a Platinum VIP owner with their discounts, inside 45 days, and who else knows what other discount they had, I paid $450 for that week. I wrote the ~$1,000 cost down on his paper. Then I asked him about WBC for a week we had stayed. He pulled it up and gave the price. We did this for 2 other rentals as well. I handed him back his paper, handed him the first receipt. He couldn't believe it. I did the same for all 4. I handed him back his calculator, had him total each set of numbers, and then tell me how much I saved vs just paying MFs. He went into the but, but, but routine, and I shut that down quickly. I told him I would buy 1M for $0.50 and annual MFs on that 1M point would be $100/month. Obviously he was not happy with me. He goes and gets Hard Sale Guy #2. I showed him the paper and what I was offering to purchase. No agreement. I said thank you, asked to be signed out, and he did. We were only there 75 minutes. They did not want me to infect the other 4.
The morale of this is if you are spending money to buy a timeshare, you have just thrown that money away. Seriously, you have thrown it away. If you can get it free through the dozens of resale places and the MFs are less than what you can rent from someone, then that may be viable for you. I have never rented a timeshare place that was above the cost of the MFs.