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RCI has no control over RCI points, which is a major flaw in their own system.
Considering all the resorts who now will not transfer points with ownership, which devalues what we own and what we may want to resell, and the arbitrary way in which points are assigned, RCI has lost complete control over its own system. Why allow resorts the ability to keep points from resale buyers? It does not benefit RCI at all to have the points die with a resale. PAHIO will not allow us to have points, under any circumstances (not even if we paid or bought another week from them), because we bought resale. How does that benefit PAHIO? Now I guess Summer Bay is doing the same, denying points transfer with a resale purchase.
Developers say, "If we are going to push points, you have to give us lots of points for our resorts." This makes point values in places like Orlando so inflated that no one will give up those numbers of points to go there, so they rent the weeks in Last Call for $202 for a one bedroom or $249 for a two bedroom.
Now they make $202 for the same week for which they were going to get $99, if we used our points.
It makes no sense, but RCI is still the one that makes the money in the longrun.
The developers really push the 9,000 point weeks, which also helps RCI with their profits because now a 45,000 point week they used to make one exchange fee on, they can now get six exchange fees. Not too bad for RCI, but most people don't do things that way.
For people like me, though, I am going to grab the last call weeks and use my points for valuable stuff, not timeshares. If I can grab Orlando weeks on last call and not pay $440 MF's + $164 exchange fee for a week, then I can use those weeks in PFD and get airfare or Disney tickets. That is the only way to work the system.
Seems to me that RCI points has morphed into something they didn't intend, but for the two of us, I am going to take advantage of the system while I can and may even grab about ten Disney 7-day passes this year with my points, before they change their minds about that one.
Developers say, "If we are going to push points, you have to give us lots of points for our resorts." This makes point values in places like Orlando so inflated that no one will give up those numbers of points to go there, so they rent the weeks in Last Call for $202 for a one bedroom or $249 for a two bedroom.
Now they make $202 for the same week for which they were going to get $99, if we used our points.It makes no sense, but RCI is still the one that makes the money in the longrun.
The developers really push the 9,000 point weeks, which also helps RCI with their profits because now a 45,000 point week they used to make one exchange fee on, they can now get six exchange fees. Not too bad for RCI, but most people don't do things that way.
For people like me, though, I am going to grab the last call weeks and use my points for valuable stuff, not timeshares. If I can grab Orlando weeks on last call and not pay $440 MF's + $164 exchange fee for a week, then I can use those weeks in PFD and get airfare or Disney tickets. That is the only way to work the system.
Seems to me that RCI points has morphed into something they didn't intend, but for the two of us, I am going to take advantage of the system while I can and may even grab about ten Disney 7-day passes this year with my points, before they change their minds about that one.
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