Killing The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs

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Killing The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs
is among the best known of Aesop's Fables
and use of the phrase has become idiomatic
of an unprofitable action motivated by greed.

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

The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

Any reason that this is posted under ''RCI''??????

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Killing The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs

The Goose

RCI Member Resorts and Members

The Golden Eggs

RCI Timeshare Week Deposits

Buying More Golden Eggs

Next on their agenda Start
Selling Members TPV points
like DVC - Disney Vacation Club
An alternative to renting weeks!

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

I have no doubt that RCI will develop a program where you can buy TPUs. Why wouldn't they?

For me it makes no difference. If I can get the TPUs I need to do what i want to do for a better price elsewhere, I will. If RCI has sales at times that provide me with a better price, I'll take advantage of that.

Certain people have been prophesising the down fall of timesharing for years and years. I have no doubt they are right - everything changes and nothing lasts forever. RCI is not the source of the fatal flaws - but they are taking advantage of them and may make the end come faster. Just like a very long list of companies in the world doing this on a much grander scale.

The thing to do is work it so you get your share of golden eggs (desired exchanges), since you are indeed the goose. And while doing that, act to turn yourself into somehting other than a goose so when the axe comes you are not in the barnyard.

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

The clairvoyant are not all that wrong.

In case you've missed this:

FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31 2009
Number of exchanges confirmed during the year 1,351,693

1999 - RCI confirms more than 2.7 million exchanges

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

Obviously, some are victims and some are not.

Some are whining and some are gloating.

Who caused that?

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

Time to put your eggs in another basket if you hate RCI so much.

I haven't been around as long as some of you but can't you roost at another henhouse? Try the independents. Maybe you'll get a nice surprise.

I figured the independents out way before I discovered you guys.
They have some nice stuff. So does II. Try it you might like it.

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

What matters is if RCI is more profitable now than in 1999. Not if they do more exchanges.

If people are relying on week for week exchanges the way they were done in the 1990's, then they have simply ignored the warnings that everyone else have been giving them for the last 5-10 years.

If some chooses to ignore reality, then they deserve what happens to them.

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

What matters is if RCI is more profitable now than in 1999. Not if they do more exchanges.

If people are relying on week for week exchanges the way they were done in the 1990's, then they have simply ignored the warnings that everyone else have been giving them for the last 5-10 years.

If some chooses to ignore reality, then they deserve what happens to them.

And this is why the Mini-systems like BG, Wyndham, HGVC are so nice.
Their reservation fees are cheaper and you actually have a shot at getting what you want. Right Boca?

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And this is why the Mini-systems like BG, Wyndham, HGVC are so nice.
Their reservation fees are cheaper and you actually have a shot at getting what you want. Right Boca?

Those are the warnings that staunch weeks exchangers ignored.

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

Those are the warnings that staunch weeks exchangers ignored.

Yes they are and funny how RCI actually does something to improve the weeks problem and people are still unhappy.

Yes, RCI is making more money but they are providing a solution, not the problem. Companies make money when they provide solutions so I certainly don't fault RCI for jumping on this bandwagon.
I give them credit for trying to keep the ship from sinking.
I guess you just can't please some people no matter what.

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

Solutions? What they have done is destroyed any reason for anyone to own an off season week to trade in RCI. That is going to be devastating to HOA's.

They have also degraded the internal exchange mechanism which is damaging for those who use that.

They have also reordered values of weeks, which creates both winner and losers, probably about the same number of each.

Companies think they make money when they raise fees, which is what RCI has done with its combining fee. Sometimes, the bottom line does not work out that way, however.

What they are doing is torpedoing the ship for the HOA's who will suffer from RCI's continued degradation of the 45 day window, something they built up in their own promotional materials provided to developers.

Yes they are and funny how RCI actually does something to improve the weeks problem and people are still unhappy.

Yes, RCI is making more money but they are providing a solution, not the problem. Companies make money when they provide solutions so I certainly don't fault RCI for jumping on this bandwagon.
I give them credit for trying to keep the ship from sinking.
I guess you just can't please some people no matter what.

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

What matters is if RCI is more profitable now than in 1999. Not if they do more exchanges.

If people are relying on week for week exchanges the way they were done in the 1990's, then they have simply ignored the warnings that everyone else have been giving them for the last 5-10 years.

If some chooses to ignore reality, then they deserve what happens to them.

Well, a large part of that profit comes from stealing exchange deposits to rent out to the general public. Timeshare owners do NOT deserve what is happening to them from that fraudulent scheme.

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

Well, a large part of that profit comes from stealing exchange deposits to rent out to the general public. Timeshare owners do NOT deserve what is happening to them from that fraudulent scheme.

As I just warned Lawren, careful, you are supposed to be happy and allow a brief period of gloating, before the next enhancement du jour.

They say a few of things about history:

1. it is what got us to where we are
2. it repeats itself
3. you gotta learn from it

Pining for the good ole days is the same as reminding folks