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The war is over --- your side lost... (by Gary S.):

We have owned a redweek timeshare since 1983. When the kids were young we always took them out of school for a week and went down to Disney. We also went other places and never had any problem getting a week for the time we wanted and at the resort we wanted. In 2011 RCI decided to have a "value system" for every week at every resort. Ours is a redweek, at a gold rated resort. They gave us a low rating of 14, in order to get into the Branson area we needed to combine two weeks, two years of maint fees, taxes and our membership to RCI. That doubled our cost of a week. Who wants to pay double? At that time I could have "bought, that's right bought" a week down at Branson for less than one week at our home resort. When we bought this red week, we were told we could trade to any resort up to and including a two bedroom, which we owned. RCI changed their rules, they got caught selling paying members that deposited their redweek, our hard earned money, to any paying customer. When I called them they told me they always did this, they were just notifying members now? I hate to lose our week, if you look in ebay, you will see hundreds of timeshares for as low as $1.00, the owners just want to get out of paying their maint fees and taxes on their home unit. What a disapointment, we were going to leave this to our childres and grandchildren to use when we pass on. It's a no win situation for us.