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Mayan Palace Regency
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... was trying to get my next 10 certificates when the VLO told me this........She implied it wasn't working for them the way they had it, thus "modifying" it for new contracts, but not giving any new certificates for existing contracts.
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For Vidanta the whole Ambassador Cert concept is / was -another way to get new prospects for the Vida Sales Machine .
I wonder if they are adding resort fees to the cost to redeem the certificates.
Anything is possible / here is an opinion/ guess .
IMO - the Ambassodor Program was “invented “ by Vidanta for 2 reasons .
1) get new prospects for the Vida Sales Machine.
2) increase the revenue* (especially to their “hotel side” ) in this cost of finding prospects .
* (ie) prospects going to Vidanta through the big exchange companies (RCI & II ) probably generate very liimited $$ to Vidanta from the actual exchange .The weeks deposited are primarily developer weeks . The exchange fee goes to RCI or II and the TPU or similar “virtual currency “ is likely split in a manner that limits $$ generates back to Vidanta per reservation .
< the lower resort fee of $75 on SFX exchanges is likely (IMO)because of a different contractual split of revenue between Vidanta & SFX .
The resort fee structure is likely a way of balancing the cost of running the resort vs. the cost of finding prospects for sales .( for example when someone goes to a “presentation” ; (IMO) - the 10% off resort restaurants etc comes from the “hotel side” / the free cabs etc comes from Vida Sales promotional budget)
The Ambassador Certs. reservations are booked directly with Vidanta reservations - so 100% of the revenue goes to them - and then a portion ($ 300/ approx) was rebated to the owner via a pre-loaded credit card . IMO -this is likely to be closer to the SFX style split of revenue .
history:
15/year’s ago : Grupo Mayan / Vidanta upped transfer fees (to non-family) to get their product off eBay . I see Ambassador Certs.as a part of ebay “rentals” regularly . If I were guessing - that could be a reason the program is being revised .
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interesting history:
Vidanta does still use local OPC’s to get folks - “at the airport or on the street”.to go to presentations . They seem to do a lot less of it than 10 or 15 years ago . It is a “legacy business “ that operates on cash .I am sure there are still local families that “pay the rent” from this income . Vidanta seems aware of the role , they as a company play in the local economy(s); and have continued to have local OPC’s get funded to find them prospects .
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