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Original Message:

Membership requirements for potential renters ($9.99 fee) (by Phil L.):

Being forced to pay a fee to become a Redweek member so you can look and see if there are timeshares you would want and contact owner to see if unit is still available is a waste of most people's time and many will not bother with it! Not everyone that comes on this site wants to become a member so paying to look then after no results getting a credit just a pain in the butt.

This is not good business by charging someone to just look at ads and see if there is something they might want and then checking with owner to make sure they can rent the unit. Anyone who has spent time on here understands that many owners never delete their ad or state that it in the process of renting or selling. It just sits there until time runs out and Redweek deletes it.

Owners have already paid the fee to become a member then paid another fee to list their timeshare for rent or sale. Then others are forced to join to see these already paid for ad's. This is a nickel and dime operation that seems to only have one purpose and that is to squeeze every cent they can from anyone checking out this timeshare forum!

Redweek could have one charge to become a member and this cost allows them to use all sites for their membership fee. I would think this would be best business model and more people would want to be a member.

Members then could run ads to rent or sell their timeshares or the wishlist or even a site to try and make a permanent ownership swap. I would think this one fee each year would open up so many uses for its members and forget this nickel and dime operation that drives most people crazy.

PHILL12