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Traveling Sales Persons selling INVERNESS at South Padre (by Lance C.):
You might want to check out the General Discussion forum and the thread Points Rental Liquidators. It is a very similar story and could possibly even be the same operation under a different name.
As for "[contacting] your resort pay a much smaller fee if you wish to convert to RCI points", yes, you can do that but it would not likely be a smaller fee. What resorts usually do when an owner there inquires about converting is invite that owner to an "owner's update" (which turns out to be one of those high-pressure sales pitches like what they do when trying to sell a timeshare) pressuring him to pay thousands of dollars to convert from RCI Weeks to RCI Points.
RCI only charges about $200-300 to convert. Anything on top of that that the owner pays (usually thousands of dollars) is for the resort's profit.