Sigh, this is the 3rd year of my timeshare ownership and I still feel like a total newbie.
We bought in November but our week is 33 so in early August. All I know is that on even years we get a week to use but as it’s in Vegas, we won’t use it. So I called to deposit my 2012 week yesterday and was told very rudely that I was late but that for this once they’d still process the deposit. I asked her when it has to be deposited and she said August 1st. I haven’t seen it in RCI yet but I assume that our value will be severely impacted from the lateness of my deposit. I guess I was expecting too much out of the resort to notify us that we either had a stay coming or had to exchange. Needless to say my calendar and my wife’s both now contain reminders for the future.
But that said I have a few questions I would appreciate an answer to :
Can you trade your week for a better week with your resort? I mean Vegas in August is ridiculous… I would love to use it if our week was in any of the other seasons. I assume we got targeted for this crappy week as we only wanted it bi-yearly and as such were a ‘small fry’ to the vendor. (I ran across an old post of mine, I asked this in 2011 and the response was that it would cost me!)
Can you get your deposit to RCI automated? The resort isn’t interested in telling me when I should do this so we nearly got screwed and no doubt we’ll face penalties in our points value. The RCI website offers no option to deposit for my resort, I need to call the resort itself to do so. Is there a better way to automatically deposit without calling the resort such as either sending them a letter?
When are you supposed to deposit your week to RCI? We have it bi-yearly so should I do that January 1st of that year even though the week is in August? How do we maximize the value or our week if we plan on exchanging?
It’s funny (well, not so much funny as depressing), we’re far from stupid people but owning a timeshare constantly makes us feel like idiots. The resort seem to enjoy keeping us in the dark as much as possible and providing no assistance. The worst part is we want to like the whole timesharing concept but every step since getting into this from purchasing, to depositing, to trading, etc… they seem to want to make it as convoluted as possible to ensure you feel helpless and vulnerable. I suspect this is because they want you to contact them so they can pressure you to upgrade or enter in a new commitment? I mean we’ve only stayed at 2 resorts since 2009 as our vacation time is scarce but we enjoyed them greatly, we had huge apartments in great locations that cost a fraction of what a hotel would have cost… so why do both RCI and my resort seem to make such an effort to keep us perpetually ?
The bottom line is I understand we’re likely stuck with this for life but I’ll always kick myself in the behind for not doing my due diligence and falling for the high pressure sales technique of the timeshare vendor!!
Thanks in advance
Phil
We bought in November but our week is 33 so in early August. All I know is that on even years we get a week to use but as it’s in Vegas, we won’t use it. So I called to deposit my 2012 week yesterday and was told very rudely that I was late but that for this once they’d still process the deposit. I asked her when it has to be deposited and she said August 1st. I haven’t seen it in RCI yet but I assume that our value will be severely impacted from the lateness of my deposit. I guess I was expecting too much out of the resort to notify us that we either had a stay coming or had to exchange. Needless to say my calendar and my wife’s both now contain reminders for the future.
But that said I have a few questions I would appreciate an answer to :
Can you trade your week for a better week with your resort? I mean Vegas in August is ridiculous… I would love to use it if our week was in any of the other seasons. I assume we got targeted for this crappy week as we only wanted it bi-yearly and as such were a ‘small fry’ to the vendor. (I ran across an old post of mine, I asked this in 2011 and the response was that it would cost me!)
Can you get your deposit to RCI automated? The resort isn’t interested in telling me when I should do this so we nearly got screwed and no doubt we’ll face penalties in our points value. The RCI website offers no option to deposit for my resort, I need to call the resort itself to do so. Is there a better way to automatically deposit without calling the resort such as either sending them a letter?
When are you supposed to deposit your week to RCI? We have it bi-yearly so should I do that January 1st of that year even though the week is in August? How do we maximize the value or our week if we plan on exchanging?
It’s funny (well, not so much funny as depressing), we’re far from stupid people but owning a timeshare constantly makes us feel like idiots. The resort seem to enjoy keeping us in the dark as much as possible and providing no assistance. The worst part is we want to like the whole timesharing concept but every step since getting into this from purchasing, to depositing, to trading, etc… they seem to want to make it as convoluted as possible to ensure you feel helpless and vulnerable. I suspect this is because they want you to contact them so they can pressure you to upgrade or enter in a new commitment? I mean we’ve only stayed at 2 resorts since 2009 as our vacation time is scarce but we enjoyed them greatly, we had huge apartments in great locations that cost a fraction of what a hotel would have cost… so why do both RCI and my resort seem to make such an effort to keep us perpetually ?
The bottom line is I understand we’re likely stuck with this for life but I’ll always kick myself in the behind for not doing my due diligence and falling for the high pressure sales technique of the timeshare vendor!!
Thanks in advance
Phil
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