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

We nickname you the "silver fox."

I was just about the youngest person there, how could you call me that?

[Ryne08 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ryne08]

I was just about the youngest person there, how could you call me that?

To be Honest with you.
We were all surprise have young you are ?

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

www.diamondresorts.com seems to be moving a little faster for me of late. The error message with the reclining belle with the laptop in her lap comes very often. I have found that in many of my availability searches, it doesn't pay to check the box saying "My Dates Are Flexible" as I usually get the error when I do that and if I don't check it I can get some results. Also today it has been returnig a lot of results for resorts that are across the country and many months different from my request.

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

www.diamondresorts.com seems to be moving a little faster for me of late. The error message with the reclining belle with the laptop in her lap comes very often. I have found that in many of my availability searches, it doesn't pay to check the box saying "My Dates Are Flexible" as I usually get the error when I do that and if I don't check it I can get some results. Also today it has been returnig a lot of results for resorts that are across the country and many months different from my request.

Last time I was doing searches, I didn't get see any difference whether or not I checked the Flexible Dates box. If I didn't have it checked, it still returned results that were close matches, and if I checked it I got the same results.

I ran through three months of searches, week by week, and every time when there was availability close to my requested window it returned identical results regardless of whether the box was checked.

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A big limitation I see with the current format is that the system only seems to look one week after your search dates. Also, it treats your earliest and latest dates as check-in and check-out. So if you're interested in what might be available at a given location during the next six months, if you input dates three months apart the system thinks you are looking for a three-month long visit. That forces you to repeat the search iteratively, changing the dates by one or two weeks each time, to check availability.

I sent a comment e-mail to them suggesting that they change the site so the user inputs the start and end of their search interval, then also indicates the number of days of stay the user is looking for.

I got a letter back from a VP supporting the suggestion.

[dale7 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close dale7]

www.diamondresorts.com seems to be moving a lot faster today for me.

[KGKG Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close KGKG]

At a presentation at Sedona today, Salesperson repeatedly said there were NO exchange fees within the system - did not indicate that was only for elite.

[fnewman Member Find all posts View Profile Close fnewman]

As far as I know, there is no exchange fee for THEClub members exchanging within the Diamond system. In addition, there are no fees for assigning your exchange to another party (called a "guest certificate" elsewhere). There are however, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, some fees for some other types of transactions.

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

There are exchange fees for exchanging CLUB points for II units -approx $140 for domestic, regardless the size of II unit obtained.

[fnewman Member Find all posts View Profile Close fnewman]

That is certainly true, as such exchanges are outside of the Diamond system. II also charges for a guest certidicate.

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

At a presentation at Sedona today, Salesperson repeatedly said there were NO exchange fees within the system - did not indicate that was only for elite.

In this case, the sales person was exactly right. There are fees for using your points for anything else that decrease at higher elite levels.

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

www.diamondresorts.com seems to be moving a lot faster today for me.

Been real quirky last two days but seems to be better this evening, I couldn't get anything done for last two days, it kept kicking me out.

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

http://diamondpayments.com

I don't know of any functionality for fixed week owners.

http://diamondpayments.com is supposed to be for 'fixed week' owners to use for MF payments.

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

http://diamondpayments.com is supposed to be for 'fixed week' owners to use for MF payments.

Thanks for the info and confirming that www.diamondresorts.com does not work for weeks owners.

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

www.diamondresorts.com

www.diamondresorts.com appears to have a new look today!!!!!!!!
If you see different functionality, please post.

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

Search functions and search return seems a little quicker?