RCI Weeks

[stlromanian Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close stlromanian]

Hey everyone. My name's Brian and my home resort is the Moon Palace in Cancun, Mexico. Well, I'm a RCI Weeks member with *89* total weeks. Clearly, I won't be needing that many. My question to everyone is how can I sell some to make some cash? Please help, money's on the low side (thanks to my 2010 Camaro SS)

[stlromanian Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close stlromanian]

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[SteveChapin Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close SteveChapin]

Hey everyone. My name's Brian and my home resort is the Moon Palace in Cancun, Mexico. Well, I'm a RCI Weeks member with *89* total weeks. Clearly, I won't be needing that many. My question to everyone is how can I sell some to make some cash? Please help, money's on the low side (thanks to my 2010 Camaro SS)

First, have some patience; you don't need to bump up your thread only a few hours after first posting.

Second, do you mean you own 89 intervals, or that you have 89 deposits at RCI? If the latter, you can't sell/rent them according to RCI's terms of service. If the former, did you mean rent, or sell?

[chellej Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close chellej]

No I think he means 89 weeks to use at moon palace. Unfortunately the AI fee is pretty high so getting much over that will be tough.

Your best bet is to get friends to book the weeks and take the tour and earn some prepaid weeks for yourself through the palace resorts referral program.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

I admit to not knowing, or caring, a lot about mexican resorts, although I have had some dealings with one, but how do you get 89 weeks to use?

In 20 years with from one to 6 owned weeks, mostly closer to 6, we only have 110-ish exchanges, and very few used ourselves or rented.

& what kind of fees would it take to have that many weeks to use?

[SteveChapin Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close SteveChapin]

I can answer my own question, having sat through a presentation at Aventura Spa Palace today (and regarding the other thread on timeshares having class, I must say that the folks at ASP were fairly classy; they did a medium-sell, not really listening to my explanation of why their product didn't make economic sense for us, but in the end, when we firmly said no for about the 4th time, they let us go with no hassle).

A Palace resort membership includes a certain number of weeks of usage over a defined period (they start offering you 50 weeks over 25 years, but saying no moves it to 100 weeks with no expiration fairly quickly). So, the OP means that he has 89 weeks of his 100 left to use.

Unlike most TS, there are no MF, per se, with Palace resorts. The All-Inclusive fee is fairly hefty, at least to someone who's never taken an AI vacation. You only pay when you use a week, and you can use several weeks per year (at one point, the salesman said as many as you wanted; at another point, he seemed to indicate the limit was about 6). In any event, you pay an upfront purchase cost, and then a fee for each week you use (from $1,700 for a suite in low season up to about $4,500 for a 2BR Presidential 2BR in high season).

[chriskre Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close chriskre]

Steve,

So you don't pay any MF's at all?

Sounds like with this scheme he won't be able to make any money expecially in this economy and the fear of Mexico right now.

I'm amazed that they are able to sell this place on these terms.

I must be missing something here.