SBK
TUG Member
FYI -- I just posted the information below on the RCI Forum with a plea that Tuggers respond here, not there. I want an answer from Madge as soon as possible and I am hoping that it doesn't get bumped.
I am so curious what the rest of you have found in terms of the taxes.
sbk
Here is what I posted on RCI:
I think we may have been ripped off.
Last year we received a free Last Call vacation for extending our RCI membership for three years. Yesterday I used it to get a Last Call for $219.00 for the Summitt at Massanutten.
After stumbling around for more than 20 minutes (he said he didn't know how to do the transaction and had to talk to two supervisors), the VG finally confirmed the LC and annnounced that we owed $52.16 in tax on the transaction. I hit the roof, but I was pretty well worn down by then -- and I needed the vaction far more than when I had started the call.
He finally said that, because we had received the LC before the tax went into effect, he would charge me on our Master Card, then credit our RCI account that amount to use on our next transaction. Again, I was worn down and did not have the energy to try to get him to understand the illogic of charging us for something we didn't owe, then crediting it back to us.
Questions:
The $52.16 represents a supposed tax of 23.82%. I called Massanutten reservations -- they told me that the lodging tax is 7%!!!!! That is SEVEN PERCENT!!!! Why on earth were we charged 23.82%???? What possible justification could you have?
If I should not have had to pay the tax because you gave me the LC before the tax requirement was imposed, why do you have the right to hold our money hostage until we decide to make another excange or LC?
I am so curious what the rest of you have found in terms of the taxes.
sbk
Here is what I posted on RCI:
I think we may have been ripped off.
Last year we received a free Last Call vacation for extending our RCI membership for three years. Yesterday I used it to get a Last Call for $219.00 for the Summitt at Massanutten.
After stumbling around for more than 20 minutes (he said he didn't know how to do the transaction and had to talk to two supervisors), the VG finally confirmed the LC and annnounced that we owed $52.16 in tax on the transaction. I hit the roof, but I was pretty well worn down by then -- and I needed the vaction far more than when I had started the call.
He finally said that, because we had received the LC before the tax went into effect, he would charge me on our Master Card, then credit our RCI account that amount to use on our next transaction. Again, I was worn down and did not have the energy to try to get him to understand the illogic of charging us for something we didn't owe, then crediting it back to us.
Questions:
The $52.16 represents a supposed tax of 23.82%. I called Massanutten reservations -- they told me that the lodging tax is 7%!!!!! That is SEVEN PERCENT!!!! Why on earth were we charged 23.82%???? What possible justification could you have?
If I should not have had to pay the tax because you gave me the LC before the tax requirement was imposed, why do you have the right to hold our money hostage until we decide to make another excange or LC?
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