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Re: REDWEEKS NEW TIMESHARE EXHANGE PROGRAM (by KC):

Just a few relevant observations of fact on this subject (followed by a bit of my own personal opinion):

1. Rentals directly by the resort (....ANY resort) are generally the highest rental prices to be found ANYWHERE. Personally, I can't imagine who would pay those figures. They ARE renting on behalf of some owner --- and then taking 25-30% from that rental figure as their commission. Maybe that's part of the inflated rental figure. Private rentals are virtually always less money (as they must be, really, to get rented at all).

2. To my knowledge, RedWeek has NEVER asserted that their "points" allocation figures are (or are intended to be) actually equivalent to "dollars". Many have made this assumption or reached this conclusion, but it is NOT (and it has never been) RedWeek's own representation.

3. Different owners have very different concepts and needs regarding rental figures. In any given year, someone might just not be using their unit THIS year (and, understandably, DON'T want to give it to RCI). Such folks might regard any rental amount which pays the maintenance fee for that year to be adequate, and anything more than that to be "gravy". Each and every private rental is individual and different.

4. Both "availability" and "desrability" certainly factor into the value assigned by RW (and/or any other exchange company). In a "transparent" system, it wouldn't seem (to me) to matter much WHEN (how far in advance) the deposit gets made. "Desirable" will always prevail and will get snapped up regardless of advance time frame. "Less desirable" will sit longer without much interest, again regardless of advance time frame.

5. In ANY exchange system, it's ultimately all about the available inventory and the quality thereof. Personally, I'm not clear from some of these "disappointment" posts whether the reported dissatisfaction stems from a belated issue with valuation (you knew right up front the point value being offered, before depositing, no?) --or whether the dissatisfaction arises from the apparent absence of anything you want to exchange INTO.

I have "no dog in this fight" and I certainly don't represent (or in any other way speak for) RedWeek. That very clearly stated, the RedWeek exchange sysyem IS now just about exactly **8 weeks old**. Accordingly, the new program can hardly be expected to be perfect. Certainly NONE of the other exchange companies are perfect either, despite having existed for DECADES now. Some, actually, (and RCI springs immediately to mind as a specific and wonderful example) have gotten nothing but consistently worse and worse and worse --- to say the very least.

I sincerely hope that you folks succeed in accomplishing whatever it is that you specifically sought to achieve in the new RedWeek exchange program. I do believe however, that you really do have to take a step back and consider and acknowledge that RedWeek's exchange system is now just **8 WEEKS OLD**!!

You are intrepid pioneers in a brand new enterprise, one which might be reasonably expected to take longer than just 8 weeks to work out its kinks.........