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Re: Exchange companies. (by KC):

I thought that we had it down, but......:

Re: >> If RCI Points members have their RCI Points automatically deposited with RCI, they cannot re-deposit them for exchange with RedWeek. <<

RCI points based weeks are automatically (no choice, no option) deposited as RCI points of known amount directly into the associated RCI points account on an annual basis. Your statement is true, but also unnecessary if I correctly understand RedWeeks actual intent, which (unless I'm wrong) is intended to express that RedWeek simply will not accept or process for RedWeek exchange "RCI points based weeks" -- period, amen.

Weeks (by which I now very specifically refer to "non-RCI points based" weeks) is a separate (and in one sense, entirely unrelated) matter, since such non-RCI points weeks belong to their owner until and unless that owner overtly and voluntarily CHOOSES to actively "deposit" that week for exchange, whether within RCI (only a fool.....) or with RedWeek --- one or the other, but obviously not in more than one place). =======================================

Re: >> ....weeks or points which have not been deposited with RCI or any other exchange system, they may be deposited with RedWeek in the form of weeks. (Right?)<<

No, I don't think so; see my prior stated belief. I could be wrong, but it's my interpretation and belief that RedWeek is simply NOT going to accept or process "RCI points based weeks" for RedWeek exchange -- period, amen. Maybe I'm mistaken, but that's what I believe they are intending to express, if not very well so far. =======================================

Re: >> (Even if someone is a member of RCI Weeks, their weeks are NOT in "RCI Weeks" unless they have been intentionally deposited with RCI Weeks.<<

????? I assume you mean that an RCI (non points) week is not deposited (spacebanked) with RCI until or unless the owner of that (non-RCI points) week chooses to actively and voluntarily do so. If that's what you mean, yes I certainly agree. Again though, "RCI points based ownership" is an entirely different process with **automatic, no choice, no option** "deposit" of those RCI points directly into the RCI points owners' RCI points account (here comes the headache from too much RCI....) . =======================================

Re: >> When we check into the RCI site, we are required to indicate whether we are doing so as RCI Points members or RCI Weeks members. Keeping that capitalization helps reduce confusion. After all, you can get an RCI "week" from RCI POINTS.)<<

Sure, of course. They are entirely different systems, entirely separate staffs, entirely separate accounts. Some folks have only one or the other, some (like me) are crazy enough to have both. Yes, you can get an RCI week with RCI points (and the reverse is true too, when depositing a non-points week as "RCI points for deposit", as I just did the other day with a dog week, thereby extracting RCI points from a non-points week ---which is exactly why I acquired both types of ownership in the first place). Getting "weeks for weeks" with/from RCI has become just too difficult, too mysterious, too unlikely, since they literally "hide" from you the actual trade value (as they see it) of your non-points week deposit. And the lawsuit currently files against RCI alleges they are actually renting out the best deposits themselves (for higher profits), with no chance of the paying members having ANY shot at the best deposits). But I digress ---- I don't think this detail relates directly to RedWeek's intent on declining to proces RCI points based weeks (but allowing RCI non-points weeks). =====================================

>> Maybe we are making this way too hard. Can't we just say that nothing may be deposited for exchange with RedWeeks which has already been deposited with any other exchange company? <<

I don't think so, personally. It's a complex arena and there needs to be clarity without confusion or contradiction for the RedWeek exchange program to succeed, as I sincerely hope it will.

Your last statement above is certainly CORRECT, but I'm not convinced that it addresses adequately RedWeek's intended policy (if I indeed understand it correctly) to completely and summarily exclude "RCI points based weeks" from the RedWeek exchange system. If that's actually the case (as I believe it is), so be it, but it also needs to be stated with MUCH more clarity that such a RedWeek policy on excluding "RCI points based weeks" from the RedWeek exchange system has ABSOLUTELY NO bearing or relevance whatsoever on the ability to deposit "non-RCI points based" weeks with RedWeek's exchange system (just as long as it's not already deposited with RCI or elsewhere, of course).

At the end of the day, the RedWeek Q&A statement which initially prompted this lengthy (but, I think, worthwhile) discussion is incorrect, even if unintentionally so. It's RedWeek's own responsibility to state much more clearly and accurately that which is currently on record (and, I believe, unintentionally misleading and wrong).

Gotta run for a few Ibuprofen now. It's RedWeek's move anyhow at this point to state their own policies and intentions for themselves --- with more clarity and specificity.