How Many Came Out Ahead, & Vice Versa?

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Let's assume we all can see the same, everything.

How many have benefitted from the new system and how many have not?

If you have been trading into the same resorts or areas for several years, at the normal amount of time out that you have been confirming (excluding last minute stuff) can you get the same exchanges for the same one deposit, or do you have to combine deposits?

Or, look at some of the exchanges you have taken. Can you still get each of them with one deposit?

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

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[riverdees05 Platinum Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close riverdees05]

Not me, I could see a lot more before than after the change for the same number of points as they gave me for my unit. Should have booked two units - number of deposits I had before the change.

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

I've definetely come out ahead.
I can see stuff I couldn't see with my week and even get some
change back to do something last minute.

I could not see DVC with my units before but now I can. Yippie!

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

JMHO, but I think that the people who made the best trades before will not see as much. Why do I think this? Because some/many of the people with formerly lower trading weeks will be willing to combine and trade up into better units.

Again, this is JMHO, and time will tell.

Fern

[BocaBum99 Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close BocaBum99]

I'm even. I haven't used RCI for a couple of years and I still don't. RCI Sucks.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Improperly constructed poll.

It did not take into consideration those who could not get stuff with one deposit before, but now can.

If that is your case, select Can Get Them With One.

Thanks, and keep the cards and letters pouring in.

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

My OBX summer week which I either use or rent and have never exchanged with any exchange company came out with a decent points lite number if I ever wanted to exchange it.

My southern England summer weeks, at a resort that is hard to find availibility online any time of year at RCI, got whacked as did much of the UK. RCI will never get those again. A few weeks ago, I deposited them - one to DAE and one to SFX.

My South Africa weeks got whacked as did most of South Aftica if I deposited the same weeks as in the past. However, if I am lucky and can reserve the right weeks under the flexi-weeks system, then I would come out even for those weeks. It willl be interesting to see how difficult it will be to get the weeks with the good TP.

The best way to tell if you week got whacked or gained in TP is to look at the past even trades you have made and whether or not you could still make them as even trades under Points Lite. If you could not make them under the new regime, you got whacked. Of course, trades made in the 45 day window or right after a bulkbanking should not be included in the comparision.

RCI clearly did not tell the truth about not changing trading power. They did move the goalposts and some won and some lost.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

The best way to tell if you week got whacked or gained in TP is to look at the past even trades you have made and whether or not you could still make them as even trades under Points Lite. If you could not make them under the new regime, you got whacked. Of course, trades made in the 45 day window or right after a bulkbanking should not be included in the comparision.

RCI clearly did not tell the truth about not changing trading power. They did move the goalposts and some won and some lost.

Pretty much re-explains this poll . . . in more words.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

If someone would like to link to this OY, that would be nice.

[Bourne Member Find all posts View Profile Close Bourne]

FWIV, i came out ahead by a looong shot...enough to not know what to do with these credits...

Started with RCI a decade back and moved to II/SFX for years. With little kids in tow, I need to be where Disney is.. What has helped me is the fact that I reconstructed my RCI portfolio from scratch in the past two years. Last year I was second guessing myself as I was breaking every conventional timeshare rule on earth. Buy what you can use...Do not buy in overbuilt areas...Don't chase the tiger's tail...

At this point, my portfolio is punching out about 135 credits for about a grand. Also, I ended up buying a dinky 16.3K Points membership that can use one of the above lock-off weeks ownership as PFD.

Will it last, no. Things change and I would need to change. As my cost to aquire these weeks including closing was under $500 for all, they are pretty much use and throw.

It's not about the fact that RCI/II/SFX/others are better than each other or not. Its about the money. Whoever gives me the cheapest rate for the week I want gets my business.

[odaddy Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close odaddy]

JMHO, but I think that the people who made the best trades before will not see as much. Why do I think this? Because some/many of the people with formerly lower trading weeks will be willing to combine and trade up into better units.

Again, this is JMHO, and time will tell.

Fern

This will be 100% true JMHO too, but it will happen for sure.

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

This will be 100% true JMHO too, but it will happen for sure.

I think you can count on it. That is the very reason RCI put the combining weeks provision in there, for the fee stream.

One of those who was shown the plan or parts of it before roll out said that he was told there would also be a provision for buying extra points lite, but that might not be rolled out at the same time as the start of the program. I am still expecting that to happen, as it also creates another revenue stream for RCI, even though it further bastardizes the exchange program.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Today I am first seeing for January, 2012, something similar to what we have been getting for January for nearly 20 years. It is a one bedroom at the same resort we have been getting 2-bedrooms, and where we have two weeks in a 2-bedroom next month (Jan, 2011). All, over the years, for one deposit.

I have had an Ongoing Search for nearly the last year and nothing (acceptable) has matched . . . certainly nothing at this resort. Hmmmm!?

We have a 2-bedroom Gold Crown on the beach 35 miles north for one week in Jan, 2012 and are looking for the second week to go with it. That week was one deposit, also.

The one I saw this morning takes 2 deposits.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Here's the bottom line for us, to continue doing what we have been doing for 20 years/115 exchanges. These figures include annual maintenance fee plus RCI exchange fee and combine fee, but not subscription fee. This is our range, lowest and highest, using our six weeks available to deposit.

This is what one exchange costs.

Previously: $479-$779

Now: $878-$2876