We have visited NCV and love it and are within driving distance (a long drive). We want to buy resale. FYI we are seriously frugal shoppers - one thing that has held us back from buying a timeshare in the past is that we (I) have always found weeks available for when we wanted, where we wanted, AND at the last minute AND at a good price ($750 NCV this summer for a week for the week we wanted, $1300 for Shadow ridge for spring break a few years ago etc.). We are frugal and last minute but now with two kids and loving NCV we want to "commit".
I have tracked recent prices on Ebay and on this site (ROFR page), and hope to buy a platinum for about $12-12.5K. This seems to be what recent ebay prices have been going for. It would seem that buying direct would be good for the seller since they would save on ebay costs. Is that a good idea to try to find someone directly? and where to look?
I know the price is much lower than what is listed on redweek but it does seem to be the going rate on ebay and with the direction in prices they may even go lower - the economy is not going to pick up in the fall, so I think it is fair. I also noticed the gold week which sold for $4.5 K two weeks ago on eaby. I am wondering, do prices fall toward the end of the year/early winter as the time to book for next year has passed (also do MF have to be paid Jan 1?)? I imagine that we won't be able to get summer for next year (and we need to since we have school age kids) so for us and others it isn't worth as much as it would have been early in the summer when we could have booked a summer week for 2010 (in theory). Anyway, all that factors into my pricing... what are the opinions out there on this?
Finally, if a gold week came available we would consider it at a bargain price, even though there would be no chance of using it this year (having read the thread below from the recent ebay buyer) since we could find something to use it for in the summer and we could use it in future years.
Thanks in advance for all your comments from a newbie.
I have tracked recent prices on Ebay and on this site (ROFR page), and hope to buy a platinum for about $12-12.5K. This seems to be what recent ebay prices have been going for. It would seem that buying direct would be good for the seller since they would save on ebay costs. Is that a good idea to try to find someone directly? and where to look?
I know the price is much lower than what is listed on redweek but it does seem to be the going rate on ebay and with the direction in prices they may even go lower - the economy is not going to pick up in the fall, so I think it is fair. I also noticed the gold week which sold for $4.5 K two weeks ago on eaby. I am wondering, do prices fall toward the end of the year/early winter as the time to book for next year has passed (also do MF have to be paid Jan 1?)? I imagine that we won't be able to get summer for next year (and we need to since we have school age kids) so for us and others it isn't worth as much as it would have been early in the summer when we could have booked a summer week for 2010 (in theory). Anyway, all that factors into my pricing... what are the opinions out there on this?
Finally, if a gold week came available we would consider it at a bargain price, even though there would be no chance of using it this year (having read the thread below from the recent ebay buyer) since we could find something to use it for in the summer and we could use it in future years.
Thanks in advance for all your comments from a newbie.
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