Question - re: Bluegreen RCI ongoing search

[iapetus79 Member Find all posts View Profile Close iapetus79]

What a terrifically informative thread! I had a vague idea of how it all works before, but I feel much more confident about it now. Thanks, everyone. Hopefully it'll still work this way when I get around to making use of the information.

glad to see i'm not the only person that is benefiting from this thread

[iapetus79 Member Find all posts View Profile Close iapetus79]

Because you are so new to this forum you can't see our DVC sightings board, but once you get beyond
I believe 30 posts, you should be able to see it, so get busy posting.
BTW, Welcome to the forum. Hope you stick around.

Chris - Where do I find the sightings board ? I am over 30 posts now

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

Chris - Where do I find the sightings board ? I am over 30 posts now

It's under exchange opportunities.
Go to the Forum tab and scroll down til you see "exchange opportunities" and you should see RCI first, then II.

[GrayFal Silver Contributor and supermoderator Find all posts View Profile Close GrayFal]

Hmmmmmm, maybe not!

From FAQ, Making Exchanges on the BG website.


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7. When I book a reservation on the RCI website, how long will it take for the Points to be deducted from my Bluegreen account?
Points will be deducted from your Bluegreen account within two business days of the day you make your reservation. You will be held responsible for the re-payment of any Points used that exceed your available Bluegreen Point balance.
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So MAYBE you will be okay.....it seems to allow you "re-pay" the points.
In your case, you would immediately cancel the fountains Resie to make those points available for the RCI Resie.

Another option I imagine would be to borrow next years points by prepaying the MF.

I had not looked at this scenario before. Live and learn!

So now I am wondering how this will work......I am looking at RCI now and got this response.


1 Bedroom
Insufficient Points
Sun 20-Dec-2015 to Sun 27-Dec-2015 Max Occup(Privacy):4 (4)Kitchen:Partial Bluegreen Points 12000

The "Insufficient Points" button is dithered and will not let me click on it. So with a manual search, you can not move forward without the points in. Your account.

I have seen this before which is why I made my earlier statement that the points needed to be in your account to do a trade.

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

I have seen this before which is why I made my earlier statement that the points needed to be in your account to do a trade.

My understanding was that you could do an ongoing search with insufficient points, then when you see RCI has put a hold on something for you, you need to pay ahead to get the points to lock it in. You can't actually reserve until you have the points, and I would guess the hold only lasts so long.

[GrayFal Silver Contributor and supermoderator Find all posts View Profile Close GrayFal]

My understanding was that you could do an ongoing search with insufficient points, then when you see RCI has put a hold on something for you, you need to pay ahead to get the points to lock it in. You can't actually reserve until you have the points, and I would guess the hold only lasts so long.

Yes, I believe you are correct. Usually a hold is to the end of the next business day but last year I matched an Easter week at SSR and the hold period was 72 hours. I think this is a special situation with DVC.

My point is that for an instant exchange, you can NOT confirm unless the points are in your account. It did NOT give me an option to hold the unit, I was stopped in my tracks. So I would have to call BG/RCI desk and ask them to put it on hold for me and then get the points in my account (either by borrowing ahead or canceling a current Resie which is what OP. Is going to do) before I could actually confirm.

So for BG owners, it really is an advantage to put an ongoing search (OGS) request in for any trade....when you do this do not chose "auto-confirm" so that the unit will be put on hold and you can decide what to do.

[iapetus79 Member Find all posts View Profile Close iapetus79]

My point is that for an instant exchange, you can NOT confirm unless the points are in your account. It did NOT give me an option to hold the unit, I was stopped in my tracks. So I would have to call BG/RCI desk and ask them to put it on hold for me and then get the points in my account (either by borrowing ahead or canceling a current Resie which is what OP. Is going to do) before I could actually confirm.

Yes - I see the insufficient points button as well...and figured that if I find something then I need to call to get it put on hold so I could work out the point situation.

I definitely need some pixie dust lol

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

Yes - I see the insufficient points button as well...and figured that if I find something then I need to call to get it put on hold so I could work out the point situation.

I definitely need some pixie dust lol

Can you see the sightings yet?

[iapetus79 Member Find all posts View Profile Close iapetus79]

Can you see the sightings yet?

yes i found it ... THANK YOU

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

yes i found it ... THANK YOU

Great!
I put a few in there for SSR.

[iapetus79 Member Find all posts View Profile Close iapetus79]

Great!
I put a few in there for SSR.

Yes thank you - Ive seen them... unfortunately I need a specific week bc we are going with 3 other families (check in Aug 21, 22 or 23)

[triniciak Member Find all posts View Profile Close triniciak]

Did you ever book?

[iapetus79 Member Find all posts View Profile Close iapetus79]

No still waiting


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[triniciak Member Find all posts View Profile Close triniciak]

That's a bummer! I just started an OGS yesterday for November. Wish me luck!

[triniciak Member Find all posts View Profile Close triniciak]

I spoke to one person when I called a month ago and you would have sworn they thought I was crazy for all my questions. But I started my search yesterday and she was very positive that I could get booked for a 2 bd in offseason. So lets pray she was right!