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Exchanging --- yesterday vs. today.... (by KC):

Having been a timeshare owner of multiple weeks for over 25 years now, I think I'm reasonably well familiar with the concepts and details of ownership, usage, maintenance fees, exchanging, trading power, etc.

While I admire your unbridled enthusiasm for the value of your South African timeshare for exchanging, I'd love to see and hear how you fare in the future (...the past is now all in the past). The "exchange game" is currently experiencing radical changes as former "exchange" companies (most notably RCI) now increasingly just rent out prime deposits directly to the general public. RCI has even acquired two separate companies (SnapTravel, Leisure Link) for the sole purpose of RENTALS, both acquisitions having been completed during the past 14 months. In published press releases, RCI has even recently described itself as a "RENTAL and exchange company" (note RENTAL being listed first, when EXCHANGE was once their ONLY business).

In short (and I am assuming that you are not just subtly "peddling" purchases of SA timeshares), I believe that you're going to discover in the future that both the "trading value" of South African timeshare(s) and the available inventory from which to acquire quality "exchanges" (particularly from RCI) is now an entirely, completely different picture from that of "yesteryear". South African timeshare owners are already openly grousing and complaining about their own experiences encountering this fact of "exchanging changing" on other timeshare sites.

In the words of an old Chad & Jeremy song refrain: "But that was yesterday....and yesterday's GONE." Nonetheless, I wish you health, happiness and success in acquiring and enjoying future vacations.