The Thrill of the Hunt

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

No, I think most people have realized that change happens, and it is best to look forward and optimize in the current environment vs. constantly lamenting about how things used to be. I don't see how posting hundreds (if not thousands) of posts on how a system used to be better (by their own estimation) is really helpful. I would much rather focus on posts that help people in their current situation. Telling someone that "back 20 years ago, you could have exchanged into XYZ resort" doesn't do much for them today. .

Some can move forward but some just want to live in the past.
Not much you can do to change the kings thinking.

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

I am sorely missing those old days when the hunt was so much a part of the fun. Now that we have bought our place down south, I don't need to be on the prowl for 6 to 7 winter weeks in Florida. The 2 weeks we owned at our beloved Harbour Inn, in Ontario, are gone since the resort was sold. I won't be paying MF's at Lowveld Lodge (thanks to Mr. Bullfrog's nefarious shennanigans), so that leaves us with nothing. I have about 150 TPU's to use up, and then it will be EV's and Last Calls for us.

Nice.

But, you should be very careful about agreeing with me.


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&, Yes, All Owners will someday not need, want, or be able to use their timeshares, and the state of the industry has not accounted for that.

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I love it too ~ unfortunately it's getting harder & harder to find something. Almost like making it to the next level ~ ahh... but it feels so great when you do finally find something great.

Well, that would be different.

As one who documented daily searches for several years, I know that is not possible any more. They just are not there, not for the time we would have wanted them, and, as time goes on, any other time of the year either.

Others here with similar interests, know that to be true, too.

I see a lining up here. Those who knew what it was like, so don't much care for today's watered-down version, and those who never knew what it was like, and are OK with what it is now for that reason.

What I don't see is a reason why one group should hold anything against the other. As I said before, that's very much like another place some of us used to hang out at.

What timesharing and RCI is today is an OK, but not always economical or the best, way of vacationing to resorts where the owners do not place enough value on their ownership, or there is not enough value in their ownership, based on supply and demand, to deposit it with RCI.

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Some can move forward but some just want to live in the past.
Not much you can do to change the kings thinking.

A question for JLB - why do you keep your TS ownership(s) if it no longer works for you?
You have purchased a home in the area you like to stay.
Thru TSing, you were able to stay in this area for many years and decided to buy there.

Why not just give your ownership(s) away and be done with it?

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A question for JLB - why do you keep your TS ownership(s) if it no longer works for you?
You have purchased a home in the area you like to stay.
Thru TSing, you were able to stay in this area for many years and decided to buy there.

Why not just give your ownership(s) away and be done with it?

Cause until he makes everyone as unhappy as he is he cant let it rest. The rest of us who continue to stay in great places and are happy with our finds apparently is totally inconceivable to him that it could even be possible.

As if southwest florida during snowbird season was the only place worth traveling to. Not that there is anything wrong with sw fla but sheesh there is a great big world out there worth exploring and its full of timeshares. Some of us have figured out that its still a great deal but youd never know it if you go by post counts.

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Cause until he makes everyone as unhappy as he is he cant let it rest. The rest of us who continue to stay in great places and are happy with our finds apparently is totally inconceivable to him that it could even be possible.

As if southwest florida during snowbird season was the only place worth traveling to. Not that there is anything wrong with sw fla but sheesh there is a great big world out there worth exploring and its full of timeshares. Some of us have figured out that its still a great deal but youd never know it if you go by post counts.

Speaking of post count, I just passed 20,000

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

How many have been both strong advocates and strong opponents?

Other way around -- we were strongly opposed to TS ownership for years. Hubby's boss tried to convince him of the appeal for nearly a decade, but we didn't like the vacationing for a week thing, or the idea of having to either go to the same place every year or trade through RCI. The "thrill of the hunt" never interested us. We love having points because we have a wide selection of possibilities with good odds of getting any of them, without the worries of renting but still paying way less than we would for a hotel.

When we bought into a points system, hubby's boss was horrified. He thinks points systems are The Evil.

Not that there is anything wrong with sw fla but sheesh there is a great big world out there worth exploring and its full of timeshares.

Yep. I'd like to get to SW Florida someday, but what we value is the variety.

Speaking of post count, I just passed 20,000

Congrats!

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Speaking of post count, I just passed 20,000

Had to do it quoting a personal criticism.

Does that count?

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A question for JLB - why do you keep your TS ownership(s) if it no longer works for you?
You have purchased a home in the area you like to stay.
Thru TSing, you were able to stay in this area for many years and decided to buy there.

Why not just give your ownership(s) away and be done with it?

Great idea, and I'm tickled that they will be going to someone here.

I actually want to keep one of our six weeks, even though we don't use it and the annual fee presently is $650, because it gives me golf at the local country club, in case I may need that when I quit golfing at the another course, which happens to be rated #1 in the state.

So, that leaves 6 weeks that we will deed over to you, free. With me keeping the one, your annual fees will only be about $2350.

Because privacy is important on the Internet, just PM me with how you would like your ownership to be held, and where you would like for me to mail the deeds.

I thank you very much.

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Actually, now that I think about it, once I established that the hunt was useless through RCI, I found other hunts just as thrilling.

www.homepath.com was a daily search in 2010 and 2011, and I viewed thousands of properties there, until we bought ours. Now I check it out maybe four or five times a week.

I also search on www.homeaway.com and www.vrbo.com. Craigslist is a daily search.

Different hunts, same thrill.

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Had to do it quoting a personal criticism.

Does that count?

Yes, it counts...
and I quoted because I believe you have that member blocked and I think she had something valuable to add to the thread.

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Great idea, and I'm tickled that they will be going to someone here.

I actually want to keep one of our six weeks, even though we don't use it and the annual fee presently is $650, because it gives me golf at the local country club, in case I may need that when I quit golfing at the another course, which happens to be rated #1 in the state.

So, that leaves 6 weeks that we will deed over to you, free. With me keeping the one, your annual fees will only be about $2350.

Because privacy is important on the Internet, just PM me with how you would like your ownership to be held, and where you would like for me to mail the deeds.

I thank you very much.

Have you actually tried (other then gifting them to me?)
Have you posted them for $1 on the various sites available?
Have you listed on ebay?

If the golf benefit is valuable to you, it might be to someone else as well who lives in the area.
You like Craig's List, list your ownerships touting the golf benefit in the local CL.

And it took me a while to get back to you because I was helping the nice couple who answered my Craig's List ad today for 10 free patio chairs load them into their car.

There is a home for everything, even your 'used' timeshares.

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Actually, now that I think about it, once I established that the hunt was useless through RCI, I found other hunts just as thrilling.

www.homepath.com was a daily search in 2010 and 2011, and I viewed thousands of properties there, until we bought ours. Now I check it out maybe four or five times a week.

I also search on www.homeaway.com and www.vrbo.com. Craigslist is a daily search.

Different hunts, same thrill.

Good, but no more houses either, they are almost as hard as TS to get rid of

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

Yes, it counts...
and I quoted because I believe you have that member blocked and I think she had something valuable to add to the thread.

You can't block a moderator, even one who repeatedly violates the sites rules against personal criticism.

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Have you actually tried (other then gifting them to me?)
Have you posted them for $1 on the various sites available?
Have you listed on ebay?

If the golf benefit is valuable to you, it might be to someone else as well who lives in the area.
You like Craig's List, list your ownerships touting the golf benefit in the local CL.

And it took me a while to get back to you because I was helping the nice couple who answered my Craig's List ad today for 10 free patio chairs load them into their car.

There is a home for everything, even your 'used' timeshares.

Not that it matters, but everything you listed. For a very, very long time. Concerning selling a week for golf, read my This is a Fine Kettle of Fish thread.

My warnings to those considering buying timeshares against it, because of what the future might hold for them, so that they might take that into consideration before they are locked in with no exit strategy, is well-founded, not that that matters. It's good for prospects to consider everything regardless of my experience, your experience, anyone's experience.

Concerning selling a week for golf, read my This is a Fine Kettle of Fish thread.

& we donated a 15-passenger van to charity, not that that matters either.

If the industry is not ashamed of their product, and it is so good you never want to get rid of it, why don't they let you?
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If people come to a place looking for objective advice, and all they get is sugar-coated, rose-tinted opinions, they are being dis-served.