In Today's Mail

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

Three maintenance fee bills . . . $1875 . . . & a letter from a company promising to pay our 2011 fees!

Sounds good.

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

I get one every other day it seems. Apparently they're coming to my area and want to be good samaritans and help me out of my timeshare mess.

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

Dori

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

Actually, those folks helped facilitate our current timeshare mess, but that was our own choice . . . us making that decision under a different set of circumstances . . . you know, the we can use these weeks to get something though RCI set of circumstances.

Another sign of the times, something I alluded to at the beginning of the Economic Speedbump, our much-maligned upscale luxury golf resort timeshare is now offering a monthly auto-draft payment plan. Yeah, sixty bucks a month seems soooo much better.

A few folks talk about the changing times, as if the dinosaurs did something to deserve their fate , but I don't see very many reveling in the latest enhancement.

Except for those fortunate enough to be able to travel at the last minute, or to have guessed right at the RCI TPU crapshoot (not even knowing there was going to be an RCI TPU crapshoot), no one else appears to be better off. More realistic, better off appears to mean simply still being able to do what they were doing before, for the same amount of $$$.

The majority do not appear to be in that category.

Who, exactly, is better off than before 5/30/09? Who is seeing more inventory (more than 170K)? Who is paying less now than before?

The lifeblood of timesharing, the hardcore longtime owners, including my real-life golf buddy whom I met OY years ago, are now saying, "I'm getting rid of my (favorite timeshare)."