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Re: Reviews on Resorts (by R P.):

phil, I doubt RCI will ever change it's business model. The few RCI disgruntled members on Tug will NEVER be heard by the vast majority of the millions of RCI members. Tug actually has no control or persuaviseness whatsoever regarding anything RCI does even after all the ranting, raving and RCI bashing on the Tug site.

I remember when the RCI points program was introduced a few years ago. There were many Tug members who bashed RCI for implementing that program, however points are the best option for flexibility in the marketplace today and points are the only true evaluation of trading power criteria. If we ever get back into timesharing it will definitely be points.

As far as many Tug members alleging that RCI rents member deposits to the public, there has never been any proof of any such allegations. Madge has repeated time and time again that RCI rental inventory is excess inventory from several sources (including developer weeks) in order to fill a void of unused units at resorts, but many Tug members will not accept that explanation and will argue the point with Madge adnauseum.

And even IF RCI did rent member deposits, the deposits are theirs to do with as they wish. This is stated in RCI's Terms and Conditions. Once you deposit your week with RCI, it is no longer yours.

The best thing one can do is buy where they like to go every year bypassing the use of any exchange company or performing personal exchanges with other owners such as Redweek has implemented recently if owners don't like the exchange companies terms and conditions.

On another note concerning reviews, my favorite site other than Redweek is:

www.tripadvisor.com

There are thousands of reviews there for timeshares and hotels.