Redweek Membership

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Do you belong to Redweek - How has it worked for you?

RedWeek.com formed in 2002
Membership Fee: Just $14.99

Timeshares for Rent or Sale Ads are additional

Rental postings $24.99/ea for 6 Months
Resale postings $59.99/ea for 12 Months

Access to RedWeek Exchange
$125 fee only at point of reservation

Exchanges, with a unique points-based system
They offer Forums and Timeshare Reviews

I am not a Redweek Member...
Just wondering what others have to say about Redweek.

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Top 25 List of Timeshare Rental Resorts Selected by RedWeek.com Users


The Top 25 Timeshare Rental Resorts for 2010 are:

Disney's Beach Club Villas - Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Harborside Resort at Atlantis - Paradise Island, Bahamas
Marriott's Maui Ocean Club - Napili Villas - Lahaina, Hawaii
Marriott's Crystal Shores - Marco Island, Florida
Disney's BoardWalk Villas - Lake Buena Vista, Florida

Marriott's Maui Ocean Club - Lahaina Villas - Lahaina, Hawaii
Marriott's Maui Ocean Club - Lahaina, Hawaii
Disney's Animal Kingdom Villas - Jambo House Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Marriott's Aruba Surf Club - Palm Beach, Aruba
The Manhattan Club - New York City, New York

Costa Linda Beach Resort - Oranjestad, Aruba
Marriott's Aruba Ocean Club - Palm Beach, Aruba
Marriott's Ko Olina Beach Club - Kapolei, Hawaii
Marriott's OceanWatch Villas at Grande Dunes - Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Villas at Disney's Wilderness Lodge - Lake Buena Vista, Florida

The Westin St. John - Virgin Grand Villas - St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
Holiday Inn Club Vacations at Orange Lake Resort - East Village - Kissimmee, Florida
Disney's Old Key West Resort - Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Wyndham Old Town Alexandria - Alexandria, Virginia
Renaissance Aruba Resort & Casino - Oranjestad, Aruba

Playa Grande Resort - Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Villa Roma Resort Lodges - Calicoon, New York
Playa Linda Beach Resort - Palm Beach, Aruba
Marriott's Frenchman's Cove - St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Casa Dorada at Médano Beach - Cabo San Lucas, Mexico


Top 25 List of Timeshare Rental Resorts Selected by RedWeek.com Users

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

Did belong-don't belong. I very much don't like the idea where shoppers need to pay to come inside to look. I don't support that type of business.

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

I've been a member of Redweek for years before getting active on these forums, maybe 10 years. I used to rent alot from owners of Wyndhams & SW Florida beach & Royal resort owners. Now that I've been active on the forums here, TUG and Mouseowners, I haven't renewed my membership and can't say how good the exchanges are with them.

I did advertise a timeshare for sale once on the site but it didn't sell. This was way before the tanking of the market. I was probably the second cheapest TS in that building at the time. I did have alot of inquiries but nothing ever materialized.

I think it's a good site and gets alot of traffic. They do alot of advertising.

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

Did belong-don't belong. I very much don't like the idea where shoppers need to pay to come inside to look. I don't support that type of business.

When they started out they used to be free but then like alot of sites they started charging. I paid it for a few years and then decided the value was no longer there for me to have to pay for the info anymore. I agree with you. They are limiting the buyer pool by charging the lookie loos.

[PHILL12 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close PHILL12]

I let my membership go after about four years. Wasn't bad for $9.95 a year but now they seem to nickel and dime you to death. Never had result in two years of running rental ad plus they raised that amount too!

Many of the people I enjoyed dealing with on Redweek left for reasons I won't get into here.

I just feel they over priced their service or lack of service and never found the exchange system to be worth my time or money.

PHIL

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

I had considered a membership, but decided not to because I can usually find what I'm looking for here or elsewhere for free.

[Beaglemom3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beaglemom3]

I like it as I've been able to find cheaper rentals, resales and exchanges.

It works for my needs.

B.

[davhu1 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close davhu1]

I was a member at one time when was free and renewed once to rent out a summer beach week that did not generate any response. Had better response with graigslist. I would not renew again. I also do not agree with their model to pay in order to look for a rental when I get them elsewhere for free.

[swestrngrl@msn.com Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close swestrngrl@msn.com]

newbie to the timeshare rental market..going it alone without middle man

i keep seeing people say they are able to find plenty of people using these type of sites, timeshare forum, craigslist and other "free" areas where people are openly renting/selling their timeshare units without paying a middle man, yet i am not really finding a lot of action. is that market really that bad? or am i just not looking on the right sites or posting my timeshare rental in the right places?

[vkrn Member Find all posts View Profile Close vkrn]

I have posted rentals at two different times. One did rent, but not from a contact through Redweek. The second one never rented even though it was a Christmas week in Orlando. I will let me membership lapse when it comes due.

[rikkis_playpen Diamond Club Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close rikkis_playpen]

I've belonged to Redweek for years, part of the cost of being in the resale industry.. It has always been more effective in my view for rentals than for sale ads.

Redweek has always had a good reputation, although perhaps that is because so many of the other choices are bad..

The key to selling or renting in this market is simply pricing..

And the best pricing advice I've heard recently came from Flo Rida- "..gotta be low low low low, low low low ..."


(Apologies to any music purists out there who now want to correct my interpretation of the lyrics...)

[swestrngrl@msn.com Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close swestrngrl@msn.com]

renting low, low, low...

thanks for your reply.
do you mean "rent" lower than my maintenance fee? or start at what I owe and see what I get? i have no idea what to even begin at or what the market bears...

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RedWeek is now DAE

After three years of providing the back-end support for the RedWeek Exchange program,
DAE is now the full service exchange provider for all RedWeek exchange members.