UPDATE: I just got home from OTA. Since I’m now an owner, I got put in an “owners education class” or whatever they called it. Guys kept saying if they wanted to sell me something, I’d be on the sales floor and that they had to talk to me so that Wyndham could release “accountability” for any offers I missed during the transition period. I was constantly laughing in my head. Especially when the guy said something about people like me thinking I know a lot about the system and I really don’t. I almost laughed on that one.
He started talking about PIC on my other 2 timeshares and when I said they don’t qualify because they are in RCI points I got a “who says?” To which I responded the Wyndham rules. He kept going down the rabbit hole of how if I bought $20k in points that I would somehow be saving money. No way would I be saving money with $500-700 more in MF, $200 loan payment plus the program fee in the pic points. He missed the fact that I have a Bali Hai 168k EOY bought resale. Told him I only paid $400 for it and his only response was to talk about how the MF is 100% profit for Wyndham and that I’m not getting my money’s worth.
I’d say I’m pretty savvy on travel, but dropping $20k to somehow magically get my money’s worth, definitely isn’t savvy.
Note: it didn’t register when I said my flight there was only the 4th time I’ve ever flown and that I normally drive everywhere (in a Prius that isn’t hard on gas.)
