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Exchange companies -response to kathi32 (by Joan P.):

kathi32 wrote: 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-

I'm clear on the week I own and that I can do exhanges. What I didn't realize until recently was that my home resort limits me to depositing my week for exchange only with RCI.

I own week 24 at Powhatan Plantation. I can either go to Powhatan every year on week 24, I can rent out my week 24 if it has not been deposited for exchange, or I can deposit my week with an exchange company and then try to exchange it for another week. So far, we have never gone to Powhatan on week 24 but have instead deposited our week with RCI and exchanged it instead.

I have memberships with two companies; Powhatan Plantation and RCI. I have to pay maintenance fees to Powhatan and membership fees to RCI. If my maintenance fee is not paid with Powhatan I can't deposit my week with RCI. According to Powhatan, as a "weeks" member, they only authorize me to deposit my week with RCI to do exchanges. (They said if I was a points member I could do II).

Since I always deposit my week for exchange, instead of not depositing my week and going on week 24, I was interested in if I could deposit my week with any other exchange company besides RCI. I was told by Powhatan Plantation that I must use RCI and not II. I didn't ask about depositing to Redweek.

Kylie is saying that he/she? thinks I can deposit my week with Redweek instead of RCI. I haven't checked that out yet.

Joan