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Re: Reviews on Resorts (by Bryan W.):

phill12

jayjay wrote:
bryan, what confuses me is that the lawsuit (from the little I've read) is mainly concerning RCI renting out surplus weeks. Weeks that RCI rents that are considered surplus are weeks that are deposited for cruises, airline tickets (and other non-timeshare transactions) and perhaps points deposits.

Many of the weeks RCI rents are from developers and resorts themselves. Madge has explained this time and time again on Tug, but many people just don't get it. ======================================== I have to agree with jayjay on this and ten years from now you will still be hearing about this law suit!

To much talk about this when the only way to stop Rci from doing this type of lack of service to its members is to leave!

We did that years ago and have friends that have left Rci in last few years because of their dealings.

You want to hurt Rci then leave them. If all these people that signed on to this law suit thinking it cost them nothing to sign on would just cancel with Rci things would happen!

For the thousands that became fed up with Rci and left another new group of owners signs on so Rci loses nothing and just keeps doing what they do!

I signed on years ago to one one of these law suits toward a airline and after eight years the company lost and we were paid! The law firm received over eighty million dollars and I received a fifty dollar discount on two different flights which we never used!

Just seems if Rci loses then law firm makes money!

When I (and I am sure many others who signed with RCI) signed up and paid for RCI, I really wanted to try to make the RCI program work. If they only did what they claim to be doiing, their service would be great. Rather than try to destroy them, I would much prefer that they deliver on their promises and clean up their act. For that reason, I would rather they stay solvent, but less devious. My gut feeling is that they have more loyalty to the developers than they do to the members, but that is my opinion only.

As you point out, for all those that leave, there are new members that continue to feed their system. So, by that logic, it is useless to just leave and do nothing. If they continue to abuse people, and the people don't want to just roll over, but want them to stop the abuse, how else can they do it?

For an individual to try to take on RCI, they would not be able to afford the legal bills alone, and only a foolish lawyer would take something so small on contingency. For a law firm to take on the same cause, only representing 1000's of clients, it unfortunately becomes a good business decision for the law firm. If RCI were to be hit with a fraction of the number of plaintiffs suing individually, they would be sunk by legal fees, because the that many more lawyers will have their hand out. So, as obscene as the legal fees are, they are actually LESS than they would be if everybody tried to sue RCI on their own over the same violation. Just as your own airline class action paid off, you risked nothing in the process and got a small payoff. Most of the legal fees were probably paid from their insurance carrier anyway, just as RCI's insurance will pay for their defense.

I am an RCI member but will not bank my exchange because I can't seem to get anything that I ask for, even after doing everything that has been suggested. I will probably offer it up on Redweek instead. I have an exchange that I will lose at the end of this month and I can't do anything about it, I can't sell it.

There are some people on this board that are patriotic RCI flag wavers, brag about how they do well with RCI exchanges but never really "reveal" the secrets of how they get the "RCI system" to work for them. I don't think there really are any "secrets", as I have asked for and have never received anything of substance that I had not already tried.

In summary: If you don't like the system you have two choices, 1. do something to change the system or 2. leave and go somewhere else. You chose #2.