Against RCI/II Rules to Rent out Exchanges

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Re: Against RCI/II Rules to Rent out Exchanges (by Paul R.):

jayjay wrote:
poroos wrote:
Would seem that prohibiting an owner of a tangible contract, whether it's the original contract or an exchange reservation, from freely selling or exchanging that contract with another party, falls under "restraint of trade" or commerce or something. Would think that the ICC, maybe even the ACLU, might get involved in this case; the ACLU as the "free buying and selling of a purchased property right" ought to be a "civil liberty" or something similar in this country. Furthermore, if an advertisement to sell an exchanged-week reservation is prohibited by RCI, then RCI is denying the printed version of Free Speech.

By discriminating against timeshare owners, and also against RCI "Members", RCI has to be breaking some freedom of something laws in this country. They must be stopped from "having it both ways."

Not necessarily, it states in RCI's Terms and Conditions that rentals of exchanges or selling of spacebanked weeks are not allowed (also II and the independents) so it's not just RCI. Terms and Conditions are what you agree upon when you become a member of any exchange company.

This policy is really for the benefit of an exchange company's membership. Some people could actually make a business of snapping up the best exchanges and renting them for profit.

A few years ago you would see rentals of exchanges and selling of spacebanked weeks on Ebay all the time. That's when the exchange companies stepped in and implemented the rule to put a stop to it. I'm sure part of it was due to member complaints.

OK. You have a point. But what about the restriction on guest certificates that prohibits members from giving them to anyone they wish? This is simply punitive. I can give a GC to my wife or daughter but not to an "outsider" unless the outsider wants to risk getting "carded" or quizzed at check-in.

If I put an ad on Craigslist to sell my exchanged week, is RCI going to cancel my account if they determine that it is my ad, an RCI member? Again, I say this is restraint of trade or something similar.

Hopefully, the pending class action against RCI will stop some of their punitive practices.