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I have met 100's, no 1000's of RCI members, and the typical comment I hear is "I can never get anything."
Most TS owners/RCI members are far, far, far below the understanding level of the regulars here, and on other timeshare forums. They are at different levels of understanding, but I am glazed and amazed at how many are still at the level we were at 20 years ago:
Call a guide and see what's available.
I just worked with yet-another of these TS owners recently. Our conversation began with "How do you get what you get, cuz nothing's ever available when I call?"
She is a Weeks member and did not even know Weeks is now a point system. When she asked when that happened, and I said, "November 16, 2010," she just laughed.
She has an account online, she said, but did not have any idea what her weeks are worth. When I checked using the Deposit Calculator, they are worth what our best weeks are now worth, not enough to get what she (or we) normally want.
(I digress, but when you see that I have an infraction, that is from trying to help her, and I did not realize what I was doing was wrong, until the little group that meets in the back room here decided it was."
Which still does not answer the question, "How do I get what I get?"
So, after all these years, and all the tremendous, well-received, enhancements to their program, some (in my experience many) RCI members are no more informed than calling a Guide to see what's available, resting their timeshare success/failure in the hands of someone who may have been put to work last week, or today.
At the next level of understanding is those who know how to deposit and use Ongoing Searches, but still seem to be frustrated by the days and days and days of hearing nothing, except for an occasional notice that nothing has been matched, but the search will continue . . . broaden your parameters, etc.
They do not know enough to know why they can't get anything, or what is available that they can't get.
Next are those who know to search online themselves, with or without on Ongoing Search in place, and know they can see all that is available (so we are told) if they want to, so they can see why they can't get what they want.
Then there are those at what I consider the highest level of understanding and dedication, who have learned that the more they search online themselves, the more likely thay are to get what they want. They understand that RCI computers, or programmers, or whoever makes decisions, are quirky. Many of us learned not long after online searching began in 1997 that a quick search each day for a specific desired target has the best chance of eventually finding it.
Over the last 12 years, I would guess that it has taken me at least 200 days of searching to get each exchange that we want. I can't remember that any of our exchanges the last ten years have been found through Ongoing Searches, but maybe one or two has.
Your mileage may vary and objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.
Most TS owners/RCI members are far, far, far below the understanding level of the regulars here, and on other timeshare forums. They are at different levels of understanding, but I am glazed and amazed at how many are still at the level we were at 20 years ago:
Call a guide and see what's available.
I just worked with yet-another of these TS owners recently. Our conversation began with "How do you get what you get, cuz nothing's ever available when I call?"
She is a Weeks member and did not even know Weeks is now a point system. When she asked when that happened, and I said, "November 16, 2010," she just laughed.
She has an account online, she said, but did not have any idea what her weeks are worth. When I checked using the Deposit Calculator, they are worth what our best weeks are now worth, not enough to get what she (or we) normally want.
(I digress, but when you see that I have an infraction, that is from trying to help her, and I did not realize what I was doing was wrong, until the little group that meets in the back room here decided it was."
Which still does not answer the question, "How do I get what I get?"
So, after all these years, and all the tremendous, well-received, enhancements to their program, some (in my experience many) RCI members are no more informed than calling a Guide to see what's available, resting their timeshare success/failure in the hands of someone who may have been put to work last week, or today.
At the next level of understanding is those who know how to deposit and use Ongoing Searches, but still seem to be frustrated by the days and days and days of hearing nothing, except for an occasional notice that nothing has been matched, but the search will continue . . . broaden your parameters, etc.
They do not know enough to know why they can't get anything, or what is available that they can't get.
Next are those who know to search online themselves, with or without on Ongoing Search in place, and know they can see all that is available (so we are told) if they want to, so they can see why they can't get what they want.
Then there are those at what I consider the highest level of understanding and dedication, who have learned that the more they search online themselves, the more likely thay are to get what they want. They understand that RCI computers, or programmers, or whoever makes decisions, are quirky. Many of us learned not long after online searching began in 1997 that a quick search each day for a specific desired target has the best chance of eventually finding it.
Over the last 12 years, I would guess that it has taken me at least 200 days of searching to get each exchange that we want. I can't remember that any of our exchanges the last ten years have been found through Ongoing Searches, but maybe one or two has.
Your mileage may vary and objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.
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