The Manhattan Club: who needs a crossover grid?

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

You probably missed the post on Crimeshare from a Flexiclub owner suggesting that he would like to donate his points to some deserving group like maybe a terrorist organization (in that they would deserve the hassles of the points).

[timeos2 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close timeos2]

Steve - you are making me very glad I know nothing of timeshare outside the US, and I don't want to except as cautionary tales. It sounds like without the far more demanding consumer laws we often complain about here just about anything goes with timeshares and scams. I hope just trading there wouldn't have all the pitfalls you've shown us with ownership. Thats all we'd ever do as I have no desire to attempt to own anything outside the US borders. We at least have a fighting chance here of getting a fair deal if we do our homework.

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

HGVC compared to my weeks

Short,

You raise some very good points.

The true test of preference is not via survey, but via open market resale prices. In an open market, buyers have evaluated alternatives and purchased based on some knowledge of the alternatives and vote with their $$$. This is the most persuasive test of what's better.

If you take fixed weeks in systems like Fairfield and Bluegreen and compare them via eBay completed auction prices for fixed weeks converted into Points, you will see that there is a signficant uplift in purchase price for the points alternative vs. the fixed week alternative.

That means that the market is definitely seeing real value in the benefits offered by point systems.

If I had to buy into HGVC at resale values of lets say $1.50 per points. I would have to buy $25,000 worth of points to trade into my other 4 run of the mill weeks.

Dito World Mark at about the same $25000 purchase cost.(resale)

My cost $4,000 total for 4 weeks.

Short