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Re: view counters (by Phil L.):

Jayjay, How do you know if they get thousands of hits a day if they don't have a counter system that they already use? You would have no way of knowing this count unless Redweek tells you!

You have no idea how much I was renting for but it was cheaper than all other non-holiday weeks by $200.00! I'm not new to timesharing and I do understand pricing!

I give same advice to some owners that their price might need to be lowered but this is not always the case so I don't throw this your price is to high crap out everyday!

Owners that want fair price can only drop their price so far. Owners that are willing to deal with these people trying to get something for nothing can drop their price to nothing if they would like. These are the owners that are hurting the timeshare rental business.

Our price was low from the start of our ad so pricing had nothing to do with no hits. Problem is lack of traffic even seeing many resorts and a counter would prove or disapprove this!

I had ad on two other free sites and had eleven e-mails, two scams,. I had these ads for less than two months before July 4,week.

I had people show interest and price wasn't issue with them but amount of days. Three of them wanted to rent for only July 3-5th and this not going to happen!

When you get some interest a counter not that big of a deal but when you get no interest over two years on a very active resort you need a counter to see if your ad is even having anyone see it. It wasn't just my ad but all of ads on our resort showing nothing. Our resort was full except for a few units that owners tried to rent and got nothing. 2009 already full for Naegle owners booking so only units people can get are by exchange or renting for that week again. All three Naegle buildings were full for the week and booked out for 2009 holiday.

I know you always tell everyone it is their price and they need to drop it and many times you are right but this is not alway true!

As far as a counter yes it does some good because it lets owners see if anyone is even seeing their ad,Its not useless!

You keep telling everyone on here how Redweek is the number one site which I don't agree but just look at resorts and see how many go un-rented each month.

I don't know who is or isn't number one timeshare site and as most members of a few forums really don't care as long as they work with their members and help other timeshare people! I know and talk to many owners and timeshare resort people that have never heard of Redweek!

About six months ago I was following some area's and found over a hundred rentals that just fell off the board within three months.If you just go by the fee for six months these owners paid Redweek $9.99 for membership and $19.99 for posting fee so these 100 owners paid out to Redweek $2998.00 for no results. Of coarse Redweek doesn't want to have a counter that might cost them this kind of cash flow!

When they don't rent they just drop off the list and when rented they stay on for a while so other people thinking of running a ad will think this is great and pay to run a ad. There is a ad on a resort this week and all old ads gone and one ad marked rented and was three weeks past its ad date and was still on the list so people can see it. If it had not been rented it would have been gone on that last day! Who even knows if it was rented off the Redweek site but this makes others think Redweek site worked!

I don't see the big deal here about a counter that people have been asking for from the time I joined. It just gives more information to the owners to help them decide what to do next year.

I can see Redweek not liking it because owners not getting hits probably not going to run more ads on here if its not working. This doesn't mean other sites would do any better but they also are free so owner's not out $29.98 for six months ad and membership cost.

Just remember that owners with top beach resorts can rent off any site and this doesn't make Redweek special just because it was listed on their site. Most owners list on three or four sites at same time and if rented come back and mark rented. This doesn't always mean rented from the Redweek ad.

One owner posted few months back how he list all his rentals on four sites and when rented comes back to all his sites and marks rented. Stated this make more people check out his units next year. A rented unit is alway better advertising than a non rented unit.

This why Redweek will leave a unit marked rented on their site for a while(Advertising)

These top resorts will be found by renters or buyers no matter what site there posted on. This doesn't make that site the number one site!

PHILL12