Sorry I failed to give my name. It is Mike and between my wife and I we have 17 years of II experience...I know what I'm talking about.
As far as trying to build an empire in a message board, I agree with however, let me give you some history. II started with a handful of people taking weeks over manual phones...a good friend of TUG and former II employee Craig Urbine was one of the II phone reps. in the begining.
I am just getting some feedback to see what everyone thinks...It will not be an overnight project and God knows I don't have the money to start a full blown call center...I can make the costs lower because the member would do part of the work...looking for the week, booking etc. The difference is I would not hide inventory from my members, I would let you freely do with your week as you want, we forget that it is yours no?
I would do weeks, not points, just easier to exchange in my opinion.
As far as billions of dollars, I know the timeshare exchange companies make billions of dollars, the overhead in comparison is small.
Please continue to send me comments and feedback, I appreciate all the info I can get.