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Certainly NOT "worthless".... (by KC):

annep71 states: >>Then RCI weeks are worthless.<< ===================================

I'm no fan of RCI (...not by ANY stretch of the imagination) but it is neither fair nor at all accurate to label your RCI week(s) deposited via FSP points as being "worthless".

On the contrary, depending on the number of FairShare Plus points (also now sometimes known as "Wyndham points" since Wyndham bought out Fairfield some years back), these deposits can have decent "trading power" within RCI to acquire a substitute week (even multiple weeks from one batch of points) somewhere else --- and anytime in the next two years, I might add.

It seems that you choose to characterize your inability to now extract "cold cash" out of your (late) FSP deposit in 2008 as somehow making that deposit "worthless". That's just not true, unless you narrowly view that FSP deposit only in terms of "cold cash", instead of acknowledging that it also represents and provides access to an alternative week (...even several weeks) elsewhere, anytime in the next two years, for the cost of a RCI exchange fee.The reason you can't rent out RCI weeks obtained via FSP points deposited is simply that you don't OWN the weeks obtained by deposit of FSP points into RCI Weeks. Weeks acquired by FSP deposits are simply not yours to rent out. They are "exchanges" --- you don't OWN them.

If it was just "cold cash" you wanted out of the 2008 FSP Points which you failed to use, you could have (completely legally) rented (transferred for a fee) those FSP points to another FSP owner before the end of CY 2008. The market value was 4 or 5 dollars per thousand FSP points and the demand was certainly there. (Wyndham intends to stop allowing the rental of FSP points effective in March of 2009, by the way, but that imminent change would NOT have in any way affected your ability to rent out your 2008 FSP points out in 2008). Instead, you did not use your FSP points and you did not rent out those FSP points. So, with 2008 expiring and neither one of those two options having been exercised, the only choice remaining to you was to deposit the FSP points as RCI weeks. No disrespect or offense intended, but whose fault do you believe it to be that you did not plan for, use or otherwise extract the inherent value of those 2008 FSP points very well? It most certainly is not RCI's fault...