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@mscheribel59 sounds like you haven’t gotten wise salespersons.
Any idea why are people buying back into W57th ?
Truthfully, I don't understand why they keep asking us to go...lol@mscheribel59 sounds like you haven’t gotten wise salespersons.
Truthfully, I don't understand why they keep asking us to go...lol
Retired, living the life the best we can, and grabbing a few gift cards along the way.
By they way, We love HGVC, and are glad we bought 2 weeks, at resale!
...At the end, the sales person said “stop buying those resales!”
Or what?
He was going to hold his breath until he turned blue?
$16K for Seaworld was a most likely credit against a new purchase.
IOW, you'd give up a perfectly good TS to buy one horribly overpriced from them.
At least you weren't hornswoggled by these modern-day pirates.
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Oh yes, they were only offering buy back the resale to lower how much I would have to pay to ‘upgrade’. I won’t rehash my long history of intermittent upgrades since 2010 (before I became aware of TUG) but at every upgrade, they ‘buy back’ at purchase price to move you up usually to move you onto the Elite conveyor belt. This is the first time I saw them do that with a resale purchase.
The 'new' money they'd want for the upgrade would still be excessive.
But some peep have $$ to burn and prefer to have HGVC chauffer their limmo, even if it means paying thru the nose.
Actually, Amex Aspire card gets you 7x points on restaurant purchases (not 3x). I have received 7x on all direct airline purchases as well (don't think it can be via Expedia, Travelocity etc) . Registry collection isn't all that. Most of properties on regular RCI anyways and point values are more expensive via registry collection than RCI. Availability isn't great either. See: https://club.hiltongrandvacations.com/en/club-membership/elite/exchange-benefits You can browse the registry collection as a non-member and it shows the same info as a member.I had an owners update at Park Soleil this weekend. I live two hours away from Orlando and go there frequently. I always turn down the update. This time I agreed mainly to see how they were going to reconcile my ownership (plus get the $100). I have 24,000 developer purchased points at HCNY. I have a Sea World resale 7000 points and I am in the deeding process for Kingsland 14,400 points. A couple of takeaways that I found helpful:
Resale is their kryptonite and the sales person (and the closer) were in disbelief that my resales passed ROFR. At the end, the sales person said “stop buying those resales!” It was priceless.
- Chicago will NOT be a ‘by Hilton club’. I asked her three times and she said it was just announced internally that it will be ‘regular’ HGVC. Still don’t know if I believe that given that it fits the portfolio of bHC to a tee.
- They really tried to push me from Elite Plus to Elite Premier (34,000 points) by ‘threatening’ that the Elite point thresholds are going up soon for new owners, but existing Elite owners will stay at their current level. I do admit they make the Registry Collection (only available to Premier) appealing in that it opens up nicer resorts from Disney, Marriott and international locales not available through RCI for relatively low club point values.
- I learned that my AmEx HHonors Aspire card ($450 fee) actually only gives 3 points on restaurants, grocery shopping, and gas stations but Ascend ($95 fee) gives 6 points for those purchases. Aspire travel benefit at 7 points is ONLY if you purchase direct from Amex travel or from certain partner airlines. So you probably get better points in the long run with Ascend and are paying for Diamond status with Aspire. As someone who has been pushing the Aspire card, I stand corrected.
- They have no idea what you paid for resale purchase. My sea world resale was listed at the 1997 $16,000 price, not the $4000 I paid this year. At some point in the presentation they offered to buy back the sea world for $16,000.
Sean