Original Message:
Re: Diamond Resorts reduces owner benefits again! (by Annette R.):
It doesn't make sense. I had to join the CLUB in order to convert my weeks to points. There was a $2000 fee to join and a membership fee every year which started at $135 and is now up to $300. This is supposed to allow me to split my weeks and to make exchanges for other DRI property without an additional fee. If I quit the CLUB, I am no longer able to do that, but have to make my exchanges through Interval for their fee. This has really turned out to be a rip off because I have never been able to split my weeks at any resort, and because DRI does not have enough properties that I want to exchange with. So I always end up going through Interval anyway. I have now accumulated way more points than I can use, and stand to lose them if I cannot do so by the banking limit, which I believe is two years.