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Re: Huge Difference Between Purchase and Resale (by KC):

Todd has asked, in pertinent part.....

>> Does anyone have any understanding of how this secondary market became this way? <<

I think it's actually that resale prices ultimately reflect true market value, whereas the developers extract whatever prices they can get away with to maximize their profits --- without regard for true, actual market "value". In other words, in my opinion it's the developer prices that are completely out of whack in the first place --- NOT the more realistic (and more value accurate) figures reflected in the resale market. In your shoes, that may not be at all what you want to hear, but don't shoot the messenger.

In real estate circles, it is said that a fair price is "what a willing buyer will pay to an agreeable seller". That may be so, but it still doesn't mean that the "willing buyer" won't pay the "agreeable seller" much more money than the product is actually and truly worth...

Re: >> Second question, can I also assume that the RCI bonus week certificates that I recieved have very little trading power and are not linked to my home location? <<

It depends entirely upon where you want to go, when you want to go there, and what the demand (i.e., space availability) is within those two specific crtiteria. Equally true either at your home resort and/or anywhere else.