Info on Perenial Vacation Club

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Hi all,
Does anyone have any info regarding this timeshare. What is its trading power? Do they have internal system that gives you high priority when trading with Perenial places? Is it a good timeshare to purchase if you plan to use it for trading?
I saw it on ebay and I'm thinking of bidding. Thanks in advance for your help and/or guildance?
Trang

2 BEDROOM Perennial Vacation Club RED WEEK Timeshare on eBay, Timeshares for Sale, Real Estate

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Re: >> Does anyone have any info regarding this timeshare. What is its trading power? Do they have internal system that gives you high priority when trading with Perenial places? Is it a good timeshare to purchase if you plan to use it for trading? I saw it on ebay and I'm thinking of bidding. Thanks in advance for your help and/or guildance? <<
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I have "owned" at PVC for some years now and I will offer you some of my own factual answers and/or personal opinions regarding some of your questions:

1. PVC is usually a "right to use" lifetime membership, not deeded ownership (as the eBay ad falsely claims). There are a very few exceptions for a few deeded owners at a few specific PVC locations where people owned deeded weeks prior to PVC acquisition of the facility) . I won't belabor the differences between "deeded" and "RTU" since as far as I'm personally concerned, annual use is annual use --- and the annual fees are identical in either case.

2. PVC is a well run operation and PVC weeks trade with BOTH RCI and II. How well? With RCI, trading power is just a "man behind the curtain" mystery anyhow, for almost any owned week except for a few "top tier" facilities. Personally, I've always used (or, on rare occasion, rented out) my PVC weeks, so I can't / won't further comment upon their "trading power". I don't think "buying just to trade" is a particularly good idea anyhow (too many unknowns and uncertainties for my personal liking), but that's just my personal opinion and inclination. Your approach and mileage may vary, but I only buy to actually use what I've bought.

3. With a PVC "RTU" membership, your annual week of usage is *equally* available at ANY one of their 6 locations --- contingent upon space availability, of course. There are 2 places in the Lake Tahoe area, one in Daytona Beach Shores, one on the north Coast of Dominican Republic. One other in inland Florida and another in Bandera, Texas (....where???). You have to make the very best reservations well in advance, just like any other "float" situation, but there is no other reservation "priority" within the PVC system and there is no man behind the curtain (.....he's much too busy with his smoke and mirrors over at RCI). There is one toll free number to use (PVC offices are in Nevada), regardless of the particular PVC facility at which you seek to reserve your week.

4. I was surprised to learn of a PVC membership being offered on eBay, since I think (again, just my own personal opinion) that it's a better than average timeshare product --- not just more unwanted Orlando / Kissimee area junk. In my *personal opinion*, if you can buy that 2BR PVC week for under $1k, that's a very good deal, assuming that you actually have an interest in actually USING a PVC location. If you're buying just to trade, however, it's value as an eBay purchase is a personal bet for you to wager and place on your own.

P.S. I belatedly looked at the eBay listing which you cited. With no reserve, some lucky soul (hopefully you) apparently STOLE that 2BR PVC week for $101.50. However, like so many other eBay ads, the listing had some significant factual errors. For example, NONE of the PVC facilities are rated "Gold Crown", as is falsely claimed by the seller and it is NOT deeded ownership, as falsely claimed by the seller. Maybe both are "innocent" errors, since those mega-sellers so often just cut and paste material from one ad over to another, creating errors (whether that's deliberate deceit or inadvertent error, I don't know; I don't buy on eBay).

Hope some of the above is of some help or interest. If not, the payment you have made to me for the offered information and advice will be cheerfully refunded.