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Re: New points based Global Access and RCI points (by Lois H.):
Oddly enough, after reading your comment about RI members being the only ones who could use RI... there was a RI unit available in January '08 through RCI when I checked last week.
Although I cannot answer your question with definite certainty, I would guess that if you convert to points through Global Access you would be able to "trade" your week (similar to RCI) through the new program, assuming (the huge factor here...) that there is availability when you want to travel.
With regard to your question: "How can this be when this was used as a selling feature when we bought?"... there is unfortunately very little honesty in timeshare sales -- it seems to be whatever it takes to get the sale!
That said, we have been happy with our trading power through RCI in the past, but are now attemptimg to sell our OLCC week due to the purchase of Starwood units.