1 reason RCI members cant get exchanges

Both of these are the same person. I emailed to ask about the way they get the inventory. I was told they own several timeshares and are renting exchanges and extra inventory they buy from RCI. I emailed them back to say that was against RCI policy and I got a nasty email back telling me they can do whatever they want with exchanges and to mind my own business.

I would suugest that any RCI members who think this is wrong and taking away from your own exchanges might want to call or email RCI and let them know about this.

www.resort-vacation-rentals.com

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6613862997&ssPageName=MERCOSI_VI_ROSI_PR4_PCN_BIX

Another Problem with allowing anyone to rent out Timeshare Weeks!

"From this Web Site:

Embassy Vacation Resort at Kaanapali, Lahaina, Maui Hawaii. One bedroom units, sleep 4. Many check-in dates for late April, May, Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec 2006 ONLY $1395 Week! Please add $100 for Holiday Weeks! June, July, August Weeks are higher."

Here is another problem with Renting out Timeshare Weeks to anyone. It appears that this person is buying the weeks from RCI and Snap Travel, adding a profit and renting to anyone.

I guess if this person is not a RCI member, it is OK.

Walt

No, it isn't

The rental agreement specifically states they cannot be rented (or rerented in this case) to a third party. If it becomes known it will be shut down I'd guess. They only rent to use they have no right to reassign any more than you could rent an apaartment to someone without the approval of the landlord. They don't have to allow it.

timeos2 said:

The rental agreement specifically states they cannot be rented (or rerented in this case) to a third party. If it becomes known it will be shut down I'd guess. They only rent to use they have no right to reassign any more than you could rent an apaartment to someone without the approval of the landlord. They don't have to allow it.

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John you are assuming this new vendor does not have the approval of RCI. I think he might!! RCI is selling franchises to its rental business, this ebay seller could be one of RCI's so called outside vendors. His list of inventory looks to be quite large and his claimed ability to get any week you want seems to indicate that he has a direct computor link to RCI's exchange pools. I am speculating, but my theory makes more sense to me than that this is a rogue individual that has somehow managed to corner the market on snaptravel's retail rental inventory. IMHO, Ben.

Thats possible

Ben - You are right. If they are bulk purchasing weeks with RCI's understanding they paln to resell then that would be OK from RCI's view - not mine.

reddiablosv said:

John you are assuming this new vendor does not have the approval of RCI. I think he might!! RCI is selling franchises to its rental business, this ebay seller could be one of RCI's so called outside vendors. His list of inventory looks to be quite large and his claimed ability to get any week you want seems to indicate that he has a direct computor link to RCI's exchange pools. I am speculating, but my theory makes more sense to me than that this is a rogue individual that has somehow managed to corner the market on snaptravel's retail rental inventory. IMHO, Ben.

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This person is not a vendor for RCI. They claim they have the right to rent exchanged weeks because they own the timeshare weeks and they can do what they want with them.

They also have EBAY auctions listing II weeks as well.

Being an II member I notified II and got an email response back that they will be checking to see what is an exchange and what is not and they will shut down any rentals that they find are exchanges.

In addition to violating RCI policies, this person is also in violation of eBay policy.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/travel.html

It clearly states that a seller of travel must be booking the accomodations themself; they cannot resell accomodations booked through another company, in this case RCI.

Maybe Madge should have an answer about RCI policy on that?

As member of RCI, i am kind of about all these people who takes away the exchange week we would have get. It has to stopped or i, like many others, will move towards another exchange compagny that wont allow it...

If RCI complained enough to Ebay (and even perhaps sued), it would stop. Maybe all of the listings should be printed out and saved, and made part of the class action lawsuits in that there is a double standard of enforcement (or rather, a lack thereof).

Ebay will stop anything from being listed if there is enough of a fuss made (but it seems to be report-driven, not through a program looking for key words). RCI needs to make that fuss, or risk losing their members.

RCI doesn't give a whop finkle about its members, IMHO. If they did, they wouldn't continue to recruit "outside vendors" to rent out their inventory while refusing to the let the members profit doing the same thing.

Has anyone brought this to Madge's attention?

geekette said:

RCI doesn't give a whop finkle about its members, IMHO. If they did, they wouldn't continue to recruit "outside vendors" to rent out their inventory while refusing to the let the members profit doing the same thing.

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Well, I wonder if a quasi-outside party can make the complaint to Ebay. According to this thread on teacher's manuals/Ebay:

http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/vb/showthread.php?t=121427

this is exactly what some party did to stop listings. If I were the publisher/author of these books I would be complaining to Ebay (not to mention that a teacher relying solely on textbook stuff for grades at the K-12 level is not a good thing anyway--we're not talking about a state-certified course in Real Estate or Cosmetology here, but I digress). Lots of people (not just homeschoolers) buy teacher's manuals precisely because student textbooks are so poorly written these days.

The RCI issue is totally different--this is clearly a double standard. Either everyone can rent their exchanges or no one should be able to. Selective enforcement of the contract is not right.

Just click on the link to email the auctions to a friend and send it to RCI customoer service or whoever. They may end the auctions of that person, at least until they make a new Ebay ID.

Rent Police

I find it ironic that we are talking about turning to RCI for relief for timeshare rentals! Just kind of strikes me as “interesting”.

Of course what the eBayer seems to be doing is against RCI’s policy – but its RCI’s problem to enforce. I, for one, would love to see RCI’s “Rent Police” in action and shut down folks in violation of their policies.

However, we don’t have the facts and should we become RCI’s “Rent Police?”

My vote is no. If it can be shown that RCI is not enforcing their policies – they are wide open to much more of this. And wouldn’t that be a shame (That’s a pun)