Deposit to RCI now?

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

same problem today

I tried to deposit my IPV 2010 summer week today. Total available weeks to exchange was 2,903, and the VG couldn't pull anything (literally) outside of 45 day window. So I "undeposited" again. IF this is just because this was an unverified deposit, that would be OK, but she did not say that to me. She gave me the trade power explanation, wasn't very friendly, and did not engage in any problem solving effort. Any suggestions? Should I try to deposit through the IT people or does someone have a "special" VG who can help?

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

The fact that it's unverified didn't previously make any difference (in my case, of depositing a "tiger" trader) in how much trade power was apparent - they called the deposit "provisional", allowed you to search as normal, and transact as normal. They just wouldn't allow you to print up a confirmation, and they wouldn't mail you one, until the resort verified.

Everything else appeared normal - trade power seen by myself and by VG's, immediately upon deposit.

And when I say "previously", I literally mean about 3 weeks ago...

calgal, your experience sounds like good evidence that assigned trade power is still out-of-whack - because I can't imagine that your week wouldn't continue to have a very high level of trade power.

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

My update: I called RCI to ask whether trade power was settled down, because I needed to cancel a confirmation. They switched me over to web support, who told me yes, everything except South Africa is fixed. She could also look at my week I wanted to cancel, and could tell me before acting that I might have a bit of trade power loss (as I expected), but loss shouldn't be significant.

I asked if she did cancel and I thought there was a problem, whether I should call back web support, and she said yes.

So she cancelled for me, and we hung up and I searched, and results are more or less as expected given the new trade power limitations/degradations. It's a summer studio unit, previously of tiger status, and now it can still mostly see the resorts it could see previously, EXCEPT way fewer large units. What I believe is there was no or little trade power loss because of the cancellation, but loss because of how they have reset for more like-for-like in unit size, in certain cases (such as DVC, our benchmark. ie - it could *not* see the unit I had just cancelled, even tho I know they have more than 1 of that exact date and size in exchange inventory!)

calgal and wackymother - I would go ahead and deposit now, but call and first get connected with someone in web support now, and if possible keep them on the phone while you check your account for # of units seen.