Exchange Value Question

[Arkansas Winger Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Arkansas Winger]

Anyone know what kind of exchanges I can expect from a 2 BR Red week, South Shore Lake Resort, Hot Springs? It exchanges through both II and RCI.

I have it on hold and must give an answer by the end of the day. It is within a reasonable driving distance for my own use. So not looking at it just for trading purposes.

Thanks,

[riverdees05 Platinum Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close riverdees05]

Which week?

[Arkansas Winger Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Arkansas Winger]

Sorry about that. It is a week 43.

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

Anyone know what kind of exchanges I can expect from a 2 BR Red week, South Shore Lake Resort, Hot Springs? It exchanges through both II and RCI.

I have it on hold and must give an answer by the end of the day. It is within a reasonable driving distance for my own use. So not looking at it just for trading purposes.

Thanks,

Since this is way past the date of your original post, I'll put this out there for anyone else wondering about trading value. Using the example of a 2 BR Red week, South Shore Lake Resort, Hot Springs. That unit would would have good trading value when searching for similar space. You will most likely be able to trade for beach space... just not during "red time" such as Hawaii (anytime), or Florida during spring break. For places like Branson, or Massanutten, it would have great trading power.

If anyone has questions about trading power, please post them. I do my best to explain it over the phone with members, but it can be confusing. It took me over a year as a vacation guide to fully understand it. Hopefully I can help.

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

This is a wonderful thing, an exchange company employee helping us here at Forums. Thank you for helping with such questions as these.

I always have a lot of questions about exchanging. Rick and I just decided to use PFD for any of our weeks that do not exchange well.

There is no rhyme nor reason for one week to exchange differently than another from year to year, but that happens to us. The exact same week for 2008 pulls completely different from our week for the next year. It is a puzzle to me, but with our PFD at less than 1 cent per point, we are just going to use them in that way, rather than battle with RCI from one year to the next over exchange power.

I still think that depositing a week more than a year out, in this case two years, hurts the trading power. Could this be true?