You people are spoilt!

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

I am getting very tired of seeing those primetime gems sitting on-line waiting day after day for you all to do your vacation planning.

Like I can just whip up those outrageous Glacier weeks? Smuggs right smack in the middle of summer? S Cal coastal in July? They're in Points. They're in weeks. 2009. 2010. Is anyone else handing you these things on a platter? I think not.

and the whining! It's only a one bedroom.... Suck it up and put the kids on the sofabed.

If I see that December Sanibel still there tomorrow morning I'm thinking of quitting. Find your own darn ex-ops.

[Chap7 Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Chap7]

Lawren, I understand your frustration, but think how frustrated some of us feel who don't have the trade power to pull these gems. And then you post the same ones day after day!

"Nah, nah.. nah, nah, nah! You can't have these!!!"

But we still love you!

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

I think the problem is that we don't have enough members to suck up all your ex-ops. What do we do about that?? I mean, I'm already maxed out.
Sent from St Maarten.
Thanks Lawren2!

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

Lawren, I understand your frustration, but think how frustrated some of us feel who don't have the trade power to pull these gems. And then you post the same ones day after day!

"Nah, nah.. nah, nah, nah! You can't have these!!!"

But we still love you!

Unfortunately that is my problem too. I salivate over some of those sightings, immediately sign into RCI and can't pull them

But I still I get good RCI trades that make me happy.

[shaggy Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close shaggy]

Me too, I don't have any weeks to play with!! or grab !! But I read these every day and can dream, can't I? Thanks, Lauren. shaggy

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

maxed out, not enough trade power and not enough members to take these things. Very valid excuses.

OK I'll suffer in silence.

I have to make my own decision regarding 2010 and soon. I was thinking Greece, I so want to return there, but then I saw the Glacier (after Boca's trip this summer I find that very appealing) and the 3 of us can easily do a one bedroom. I bet I could get an IPV from TPI to match-up with it and do YStone too...

Then I can wait for DS to go to college, pack off to Greece for a month in shoulder season with a friend or two and island hop on the cheap LMs. That sounds like a plan...

FWIW I hope some of our euro-members are picking up those DAE bonus weeks. Some of those locations sound WONDERFUL. Not timeshares, more like individual rental properties and so unique.

SOMEONE go get us more members.

[billymach4 Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close billymach4]

Lawren. We still love you!



For one thing I don't trade in RCI. My TS's are in II. Even still I have no more weeks to trade in II. I have to wait until October to deposit my weeks in II. I used 3 trades this year, and I have 2 trades lined up for 09. There is only so much vacation a family can take

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

I did my part with that Michigan week in 8/10. Now all I have on deposit is a weak Wyn FSP generic. Might get me to the Poconos...

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

My weeks USED to pick up sightings.......But NOT ANYMORE!! Very little trading power with my 2BR/2BA Gold Crown fall and early winter weeks on beautiful Siesta Key!!

I'd love to grab some of your sightings!

Decided to try II after my RCI week and membership ends.

[funtime2 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close funtime2]

Hang in there for a few more years until I retire. When I retire I am thinking about taking my special needs child - Caroline - and home school her for 6 months. My homeschooling it going to be traveling and see as much of the US as possible. There is a wide open classroom in vacationing! There is no better way to teach life skills than to experience it.

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

I think that these fantastic weeks sitting there for months on end shows that something is wrong with RCI's trade-power model. There are plenty of people (including me, of course) who would love to take these weeks and would be happy to commit, even two years out. But they don't have the trade power to even SEE these weeks. It's very frustrating. So there they sit.

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

I have the same problem. Would love to get some of those weeks but couldn't see them with my deposited weeks.

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

and the whining! It's only a one bedroom.... Suck it up and put the kids on the sofabed.

Well...when you have 5 kids (including a 6'2'' 17 yo) it's kind of hard to stick them ALL on a sofa bed.

We grabbed one of those 1 bedroom Manhattan Club sightings...the kids are staying home.

Thanks Lawren for finding all these great sightings!

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

Lawren, I understand your frustration, but think how frustrated some of us feel who don't have the trade power to pull these gems. And then you post the same ones day after day!

"Nah, nah.. nah, nah, nah! You can't have these!!!"

But we still love you!

If your dog trader doesn't pull up Lawren's gems on line, try calling RCI....
After seeing one of Lawren's postings for Morritts in Grand Cayman, I tried to exchange on line but my unit wasnt strong enough to pull it up.
I then called RCI and at first was told nothing available. After a little
grovelling and whining, the VC said, "let me see what I can do..."
A few moments later I was confirmed into Morritts for a March 2009 week
Thanks again, Lawren....

[GrayFal Silver Contributor and supermoderator Find all posts View Profile Close GrayFal]

I think the problem is that we don't have enough members to suck up all your ex-ops. What do we do about that?? I mean, I'm already maxed out.
Sent from St Maarten.
Thanks Lawren2!

I am going to the French Riviera, for goodness sakes !!!
I am trying to do my part!