Original Message:
Membership requirements for potential renters ($9.99 fee) (by R P.):
Phil, I am in complete agreement with your statement below. Most people ask far too much for their timeshare week when trying to sell it (both developer bought and resale bought).
When I look at other timeshare weeks at the same resort where I am selling (depending on season), I would always lower my price from what the others were asking. I have never had any trouble selling a timeshare week via this method. The one exception was the first developer week we bought (before timeshare education), which we lost money when selling it. We had to lower the price to 1/3 (which is the norm) of what we paid the developer, but we did sell it.
Many people could sell their weeks if they would lower their price in comparison to other weeks listed at the same resort. Yes, you may take a loss, but it's better than continually paying (rising) maintenance fees each year.
phill12 wrote:What I do not understand is why some owner would check their resort and maybe see 25 other owners listed on here and think they will sell their unit when all these others are just sitting there. I would think most people run ad for only six months so this helps Redweek because it looks like units are getting sold/rented.