Originally posted by philsfan
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I like the concept and it reminds me of what David's DVC points brokerage is doing except of course he is focused on one developer's very very popular product.
If you could win over the Wyndham, Worldmark, Bluegreen and Marriott owners I think you could get enough traction to get some of the traffic and inventory you need.
Right now there are lots of facebook groups doing direct rentals and exchanges and have no middle man.
I have two timeshares that I rent regularly and having other options is always great.
I wish you the best of success. There needs to be some friendly competition out there.
So I signed up and sadly only see two resort listings and one is way overpriced IMO.
A VV Parkway for $1799 even for a Christmas/NYE seems too high but then again I never do Orlando for the holidays so maybe someone would want it.
Not that there is anything wrong with the resort, I own a unit there and it's decent.
But by just scrolling the available units the very very important fact that this is a peak holiday week is not obvious until you click on the details.
That IMO is the only thing that makes this unit desirable at that price and you don't know it until you click on it.
RCI gives these weeks away for $199 regularly so if it's not screaming Christmas/NYE the savvy renter will pass this listing by.
I'm sure you probably know this already (or maybe not) but RCI has a wholesale division where they will let you resell their inventory.
I'm not in the business but somehow I was put on their mailing list a few years ago and saw that they have a full website
dedicated to wholesaling their unwanted or wanted weeks to travel agents. I think you should pursue that inventory.
I think some of the other biggies do the same.
And if you are not doing facebook then you need to.
The people are out there they are just all over the place scouting for deals.
15% seems reasonable to you, but paypal only charges 30cents and 3% so people are using the facebook groups.
I think you may need to take less for now until you get going.
I doubt people are going to give up 15% at this point.
They will have to price too high to cover it and then the buyers go elsewhere.
Just my opinion of course but it's tough enough for owners to break even let alone share another 15% to get paid.
Good luck with your company.
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