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Re: What is the value of an RCI point? (by KC):

adahiscout asks, quoted verbatim:

>> Would someone who buys a 1BR unit at a RCI POINTS Gold Crown all red season resort in Florida, for example, get 60,000 pts with which to trade or will the points value of their resort vary a lot depending on location? MD << ===================================

The RCI Points Value summary grid which I cited only specified what a unit "costs" (in RCI points) for use of a week at a gold/silver/standard RCI resort in Hawaii.

The amount of RCI points which one ACQUIRES in the course of making a RCI points resort purchase is individually determined within each individual purchase. RCI points values associated with any RCI points purchase at any given RCI points resort varies with resort location (and likely, to some extent, with resort age and condition and amenities too). There is, at least as far as I can tell, not a whole lot of consistency or pattern in the amount of RCI points acquired with any given purchase. Also, it's clearly NOT that "more RCI points are acquired for more money spent". Figures (both cost and points) seem to be all across the board.

The above point clarified, to use a 1BR unit in ANY "Gold Crown" resort in Florida in RED time "COSTS" 43,000 points for one week of use. However, someone actually owning that same 1BR Red week at a GC RCI points resort in FL may very well own considerably more (or less) annual RCI points than that amount in their own underlying RCI points ownership at their particular resort. It's only in the "spending" of the points that there is any resort consistency ---not in the purchase.

In short, the amount of RCI points which one owns is separately determined within each individual RCI points resort purchase, whereas the actual RCI points "cost" to utilize any given size unit in any given location or season is standardized and consistent throughout the world, openly published in a RCI points value grid.

By the way, those grid values also reflect exactly what a RCI "weeks" owner will get in RCI points when converting a "week" over to RCI "points for deposit". The RCI points value is reduced from that grid figure only if the deposit / conversion is made less than 90 or 120 days (I forget which) before the usage date of the to-be-converted "week".