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RedWeek is not RCI... (by KC):
Citing the hypocritical "do as I say, not as I do" double standard practices of RCI, adriennek11 asks: >>If this is the case, is RedWeek acting legally by promoting timeshare rentals??<< ===============================================
The question is a comparison of apples vs. oranges, I respectfully submit --- but the answer is still YES!
Owners are always free to rent out weeks they actually own --- anytime, anywhere, at any price and on any terms they choose, as long as they literally OWN those weeks. Weeks acquired by "deposit one, in exchange for another" are an entirely different matter, however.
The RedWeek exchange program is NOT the RCI program and is not affiliated in any way with RCI. Accordingly, the RedWeek program simply does NOT have the same rules, terms or conditions as RCI. They are entirely different, completely unrelated and thoroughly dissimilar programs.
RCI rents out its members' deposits directly to the general public (at the expense of RCI members' own ability to acquire quality exchanges, even after "depositing for exchange" with RCI). RCI rents directly, and also more subtly through Lesiure Link and SnapTravel (two entities now wholly or partly owned or controlled by RCI after being separately acquired by RCI within the past year). Meanwhile, RCI members can't seem to get prime exchanges anymore, even those formerly accomplished with relative ease. This is exactly why RCI is currently the defendant in a class action lawsuit (Murillo vs. RCI), brought about by dissatisfied RCI members unable to any longer acquire the quality of exchanges formerly available to them.
With these facts in mind, RCI's hypocritical double standards hardly make RCI a respectable benchmark for comparison rearding exchanges. If RedWeek allows the rental of RedWeek exchanges within the RedWeek program, that's their call to make. At least RedWeek is open, honest and upfront about it --- unlike RCI which "talks the talk", but isn't actually able or willing to "walk the walk" themselves.
For the record, I don't currently exchange with ANYONE, haven't done so in quite a while, and don't plan to do so anytime in the foreseeable future. I certainly have "no dog in this fight" and no hidden agenda. However, I will readily state that I personally find RCI current practices with acquired weeks to be hypocritical, reprehensible and a grave disservice to its own fee paying RCI membership. Just my personal view and opinion on the matter.