BocaBum99 Questions about your post on Ask RCI?

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

Hey, Emmy, I think it is always appropriate to remind folks about the basic rules for owning timeshares:

"buy where you want to use." ...so thanks for adding that thought...RCI exchanging is sold to newbies along with their unit: they are told, "you can go anywhere" and they are told about last minute escapes (we know them to be rentals)....it all falls into the same "buyer beware" category!

Thanks for thinking of the newbies who will stumble on this thread!

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

I really really wish someone had told us that bit of advice... because we totally go sucked in to the GO ANYWHERE ANYTIME!! They made it sound like the bed would be made and waiting for us!!! never did they mention that you may never actually see anything in the little book because of availability issues!!

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

Dancingfish, exactly! That is why TS4ms and TUG are important for the consumer...now more than ever!

We need to keep each other informed, keep the industry on its toes, and try our best to get the value (that we THOUGHT we had bought) out of timesharing.

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

Did anyone see this?
Thanks Boca.. Are you getting a kickback from RCI?

http://www.tugbbs.com/forums/showthr...259#post139259

[reddiablosv Member Find all posts View Profile Close reddiablosv]

Boca I think you are being too kind to RCI when you suggest that engaging in questionable business practices for short term greed is beneath RCI. I think RCI has the same business ethics as the leaders of Enron, Worldcom and Lincoln Saving and Loan. RCI is looting the exchange weeks for rentals. RCI is scaming the ts owners in just the same tradition as the developer did when we were overcharged for our weeks when we purchased them. Except RCI is taking our money when we try to exchange them and not when we try to buy them. RCI's refusal to refund the EV rental fee when it failed to deliver the week due to the hurricane is clearly illegal. Its claim that the EV fee was an exchange fee is a transparent attempt to conceal the true nature of RCIs EV business which is a rental business. I think TUG has performed a valuable service by turning the spotlight on some of RCIs questionable activities. Ben