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Re: Exchange companies. (by Kathi L.):

adahiscout wrote:

joanp60 wrote:

Marty, I bought a timeshare that is a specific week. When I called Powhatan Plantation, my home resort, to see if I could deposit my week with II instead of with RCI they told me that I can only deposit my week for exchange with RCI because that is who they are affliated with. The person at Powhatan told me that if I had bought a Points timeshare at Powhatan then I could do exchanges with II.

So if I can't even use II instead of RCI, I don't see how I could ever use Redweek to deposit my week with.

========= Yes, this is the same problem I ran into when I queried Fairfield/Wyndham. RedWeek may be willing to accept deposits from our resorts, but we are hearing that the resorts are not willing to make the deposits to organizations with which they have no affiliation. This may be a matter of simplicity or a way to protect owners from the "Fly by nights". (The person with whom I spoke had never heard of RedWeek and quickly cautioned me against companies who call offering to rent or sell my weeks.)

MD

Dear JoanP60 and adahiscout:

Perhaps I fail to understand the problem here. But I don't see how any resort in which you own the right to book a week (note - not book points - I know nothing about how points resorts work), and have actually booked a specific week can fail to let you deposit wherever you like.

Because - 1. It's your week because you own the right to a week at that resort 2. It's your week because you reserved it 3. You can do what you like with it once you have a reservation for a specific week- occupy it yourself 4. Give it to the resort to try to rent 5. Rent it yourself (perhaps with some caveats) 6. Give it to someone else to use for free (maybe with having to buy or just request a guest certificate) 7. Deposit it for exchange with the exchange company your resort is affiliated with (assuming you belong to one) 8. OR - deposit your reserved week with Redweek for exchange ( but NOT if you've already deposited it for exchange with your own exchange company. And probably not if you got the week as an exchange in the first place, although I don't know definitely about that either ).

Maybe I just don't understand the issue. But it seems pretty simple to me. I own the right to reserve a week at my home resort. I reserve the week at my home resort. Therefore that week is mine to do with as I like. I am the owner.

I wonder if people are either confusing weeks they exchange for, with weeks they own at their home resort? Or are people just making a more complicated issue out of exchanging than it actually is?

Kathi