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Re: Who cares about resorts' rental rates! (by R P.):

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Truth is, by reading on TugBBS, it has become obvious that most of the provional weeks are just people testing the RedWeek system. I have read that many people don't even own the weeks they were getting quotes for!

You have to take what is said many times on Tug with a grain of salt. Posts there are merely opinions of the poster, not timeshare gospel written in stone.

It was a Tug member who bought the 100K one week of timeshare in (drastically overbuilt) Vegas and bragged about his fantastic negotiating skills in getting that great deal even though Tug's mantra has always been to never to buy from the developer but to buy resale. Anyone who buys one week of timeshare and pays 100K needs their head examined bigtime. He is also the main detractor of Redweek's exchange program.

There are many knowledgable members on Tug (DaveM is a good example), and then there are members that don't know diddly about timesharing (the idiot who paid 100K for one week of timeshare is a perfect example). You have to decipher who are the knowlegable members versus the BSers and whose posts you should believe versus whose posts to completely ignore as untruths and ignorance.

You have to remember that Tug is a very small population of timeshare owners (somewhat like a grain of sand on a thousand mile beach), and I don't believe that most of the provisional weeks are coming from Tuggers (a small group). I believe most provisional weeks are coming from Redweek members themselves.

And yes, you can request the number of Redweek points a week will receive whether or not you own the week. There's nothing wrong with that. And I don't doubt that most provisional weeks are people testing Redweek's waters. This is all new to them and Redweek needs time to build their program just like RCI and II had to do in the beginning. It's still in it's infancy.