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Re: using your timeshare for an exchange is a JOKE!!!! (by Gary M.):
I think there's something to your complaints and there are other big problems with the industry. They sell you something that you can't give away and try to keep you trapped. They were crying foul when owners "sold" their weeks to non-existant people. There should be a law that they're required to take it back or at least never do anything to stand in the way of a subsequent sale. Having said all that, I often exchange for better places than I own. And get in a couple of extra weeks a year. I'm getting plenty of use out of my timeshare ownership and exchange membership. When I bought I wasn't under any illusion about an "investment" or that it would be dirt cheap vacationing. I saw it as a way to get better accommodations than I would ever spend the money to get otherwise.