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Just won an ebay auction for 1 br deluxe biennial phase II unit in platinum season for $547 with free closing. Is this a good deal?
How hard (or easy) is it going to be to reserve new year/christmas/presidents day week and to reserve a week during the gold season? Anybody has any experience with this?
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I have been watching that auction, and congrats on your great deal!
However, I am weary of the closing co (so much complaint for slow closing) and seller's feed back is not that great either.
Ask seller to make a 2011 reservation to insure the premium week, because closing would take longer than USA transfer and by the time it is done, maybe it would be too late to get prime week.
If you want a gold week (summer), you should buy gold season.
But overall, price is so so good!
 
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It was a great deal! I bid myself but dropped out early. Hope I see another deal like this sometime! Enjoy and congratulations.:clap:
 
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i wanted the 1 br premium biannual unit. was quite bummed that I didnt get it:(

Congrats to you!
 
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yumdrey said:
I have been watching that auction, and congrats on your great deal!
However, I am weary of the closing co (so much complaint for slow closing) and seller's feed back is not that great either.
Ask seller to make a 2011 reservation to insure the premium week, because closing would take longer than USA transfer and by the time it is done, maybe it would be too late to get prime week.
If you want a gold week (summer), you should buy gold season.
But overall, price is so so good!
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My Harborside resale took 30 days to complete.
 
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gabrielij said:
Just won an ebay auction for 1 br deluxe biennial phase II unit in platinum season for $547 with free closing. Is this a good deal?
How hard (or easy) is it going to be to reserve new year/christmas/presidents day week and to reserve a week during the gold season? Anybody has any experience with this?
thanks
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Free closing....ha!

Closing costs in the Bahamas will cost $2,000-$3,500 and they are throwing it in for free?

The price you paid is fantastic, even if you have to pay closing costs.
 
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Even if it would take only 30 days for closing, it takes another 2 months until starwood transfer the name and new owner can reserve the week these days.
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I will disagree again....We were in the Starwood system the after three days and had made our reservation that afternoon. We were very proactive from start to finish, even going as far as to pre-call Starwood to get the transfer done smooth and quick.
 
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I will disagree again....We were in the Starwood system the after three days and had made our reservation that afternoon. We were very proactive from start to finish, even going as far as to pre-call Starwood to get the transfer done smooth and quick.
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Tom - the transfer with Starwood is taking 2+ mos. these days, and they are not expediting anyone, except maybe people who are requalifying. Not sure why - but we have a thread going on this and that is everyone's experience currently. Maybe they laid staff off?
 
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even in phase 2 the New Year's/Christmas weeks were sold at a premium so you won't be able to get those. May have a shot at Presidents week as I am not sure about those but we had looked at phase 2 for those holidays and ended up buying a week 52 in phase 1.
Hard to reserve to gold as you will be competing with so many who want summer when children are off school.
Your best bet for that may be to reserve a good platinum week rent it and then rent a summer week.
 
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according to the Starwood rep I spoke to if I owned a platinum week I could get week 52 and it isnt a "special" or "event" week. I dont own it now so it does not affect me though.
 
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I guess if an owner didn't confirm that week it might be possible but based on how much they rent for what owner wouldn't confirm that week after paying a premium for it?
And I know having looked in to phase 2 when I was shopping for a week 52 I was told those were sold as fixed and the prices were much higher than the float week in the same season.
 
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When I was shopping harborside, I heard that week 51, 52 and 7 (presidents' day) were sold as fixed week with more premium. However, platinum week owners still can reserve those weeks IF they are available.
 
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in Phase 2, if the weeks are sold by season only, no fixed weeks, how would be any different than another week?
 
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I don't know this to be the case at Harborside but Starwood has sold fixed holiday weeks at many of it's otherwise "all float" resorts (e.g. WKORV). Also, it's pretty routine for them to permit buyers to fix any week in a season for a 10% premium (although they probably charged more for 7, 51 and 52). For example, at WSJ Bay Vista, I think the docs restrict Starwood to fixing no more than 50% of the weeks even though we routinely refer to it as a float resort.
 
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In phase 2 although all float they sold those weeks at a premium to guarantee those buyers they could the holiday weeks they paid extra for.
 
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