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Re: Vacation Village Points (by Beck):

I had 7 units with Vacation Village, 5 were weeks and two were in the RCI Points program. I bought all of them resale. Initially Vacation Village wanted $4995 for each unit (5 units) to convert, then they lowered it to $2,995 for each unit. This was in late 2004 or early 2005 I think. I just didn't see the point since it would cost less to sell the 5 units and buy identical weeks which were already in the RCI Points program. A year later I was at the resort and went to a presentation and after quite a while they finally agreed to convert the 5 units for a total of $2,995! THAT was a good deal.

In retrospect though I should have sold off the 5 units, even if I lost $300-$500 on each, and bought one or two similar units in RCI Points. I never used all the points and while I sold six of my units two years later for a small profit I probably still lost money (not including the savings I got while using the units) since I think I let maybe 400k pts expire over a few years. That's like 5 annual maintenance payments over three years plus a few weeks didn't get used before I converted. It was fun though!