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Disney and other non-topic digressions... (by KC):

vivianh26 wrote:

Can we appeal to the resort managements? ....the lack of trade value is a huge deal and prospective owners should hear about it.

This thread has certainly now drifted VERY far afield of its' actual original topic (...which WAS the class action lawsuit against RCI...).

That said, however, no resort and /or its' management really has much at all to do with the "trade value" of ANY week / unit ANYWHERE.

With RCI, "trade value" is a "man behind the curtain" mystery whose details RCI has always declined to reveal, but is certainly based in part upon simple supply and demand. Interval Intl. has a more "like for like" approach to establishing "trade value" (studios generally only get other studios, 1 BR gets only another 1BR, etc.), but supply and demand considerations certainly factor into the II valuation process as well.

However, all individual exchange company internal procedures aside, exchange value is influenced by other market influences. For example, a very few years ago, Hawaii ownerships were like gold bars and would get you almost anywhere else you might want to go when deposited for exchange. Then, along came high fuel prices, exorbitant airfares and fewer available airline choices and --- POOF!! Gone in a flash was that "gold bar" exchange value of a Hawaii timeshare, since the cost of getting to Hawaii at all in the first place became a severely limiting factor (indeed, an outright liability) in and of itself.

In short, there are assorted and fluctuating factors which can (and do) influence both "supply and demand" and "trade value", but an individual resort and /or its' management cannot (and does not) really factor into that equation at all, except in the relatively rare instances where the resort itself has been physically run into the ground by gross mismanagement and / or financial impropriety.