[2011] Tahiti Villiage now with RCI

[flowerofthemound]

I spoke to Owner's Advantage department at TVV today but the person I spoke to said she can't tell me how many points are assigned and that her supervisor (who is out sick or on holiday) has to get back to me. She confirmed that it is RCI points.

In response to the RCI offer from Consolidated, Interval is offering a 3-year basic membership extension for $99 plus a non-holiday bonus week if anyone is interested. Offer expires 12/31/2011. Her'e the info from Interval's website:
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Important Information for Consolidated/ASNY Owners:
Your home resort may have recently notified you of its decision to affiliate with an alternative exchange program and this may have left you confused about the status of your Interval International membership. We want to clarify this immediately.

Rest assured you have every right to retain your membership in Interval International and to continue to exchange through its network. Theres absolutely no reason why you shouldnt continue to enjoy all of the benefits and services of Interval International, including the exchange privilege, for as long as you wish to remain an Interval International member. In fact, were so interested in you remaining an Interval member that were making a special membership offer available to you.

Renew your membership with Interval International now and receive 3 Years of Interval Membership: Only $99 Plus a Bonus Vacation Week!* Hurry, offer expires 12/31/2011.
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Can you tell me what the offer code is for this? Or where you found this? I called II and they can't find the offer in their system...

thanks

 

[vamsee]

Can you tell me what the offer code is for this? Or where you found this? I called II and they can't find the offer in their system...

thanks

I don't know of any offer code for this. After you sign-in to www.intervalworld.com, click on "My Messages" at the top (I tried attaching a screen capture). It will take you a page with various offers/alert. At the bottom of the page is this offer.

 

[Doc]

Tahiti Village and RCI, all about the $$$$

I am a member also interested in the RCI option. I came to Vegas with my wife for the explanation/presentation. I should have known it was really just another sales pitch. We were told that we could only purchase the option while on property and that if we chose not to purchase during this visit, that we would not have the opportunity to purchase the RCI option again for another year and that we would have to return to the property to do so. The RCI option costs $5990 per deed or unit and that doesn't include the 1st years annual fee. When I spoke with RCI, they said that the price to purchase in at Tahiti village is solely at the discretion of the resort and not set by RCI.
If my math is correct, with nearly five hundred units on property each deeded for 52 weeks, that is 500 x 52 x $5990 = $155,740,000. That's a lot of money to be made by ASNY by offering this option, and what did ASNY pay RCI to enter the program? They won't tell us. In reality, weeks have likely been double sold, and my number is far below what can be earned by ASNY by selling this option. ASNY already made some good money on the buy back of Tahiti after the bankruptcy while we gained nothing. In fact, all the phase 3 and phase 4 changes we were promised are now permanently off the table, the value of our investment is down, and yet ASNY wants to ask us for even more money. New owners can buy the same units now for much less than several years ago and this includes the RCI option (no additional fee), but the old, faithful, responsible paying owners have to pay $5990 to opt in. As you can tell, I am very upset about this. I think we deserve a better explanation as owners. I am absolutely convinced that the motivation to offer this service was not "how can we increase the value for owners?" but rather "how can we get more money from these guys?"

 

[dougp26364]

I am a member also interested in the RCI option. I came to Vegas with my wife for the explanation/presentation. I should have known it was really just another sales pitch. We were told that we could only purchase the option while on property and that if we chose not to purchase during this visit, that we would not have the opportunity to purchase the RCI option again for another year and that we would have to return to the property to do so. The RCI option costs $5990 per deed or unit and that doesn't include the 1st years annual fee. When I spoke with RCI, they said that the price to purchase in at Tahiti village is solely at the discretion of the resort and not set by RCI.
If my math is correct, with nearly five hundred units on property each deeded for 52 weeks, that is 500 x 52 x $5990 = $155,740,000. That's a lot of money to be made by ASNY by offering this option, and what did ASNY pay RCI to enter the program? They won't tell us. In reality, weeks have likely been double sold, and my number is far below what can be earned by ASNY by selling this option. ASNY already made some good money on the buy back of Tahiti after the bankruptcy while we gained nothing. In fact, all the phase 3 and phase 4 changes we were promised are now permanently off the table, the value of our investment is down, and yet ASNY wants to ask us for even more money. New owners can buy the same units now for much less than several years ago and this includes the RCI option (no additional fee), but the old, faithful, responsible paying owners have to pay $5990 to opt in. As you can tell, I am very upset about this. I think we deserve a better explanation as owners. I am absolutely convinced that the motivation to offer this service was not "how can we increase the value for owners?" but rather "how can we get more money from these guys?"

I can't verify this but, what I remember reading on TUG (note I sometimes have a faulty memory) was that resorts paid a fee of $500 to RCI, everything else was profit for the resort.

Unless you're having issues trading in I.I., I'm not certain I'd be anxious to jump into RCI for that sort of fee. I'd just laugh at the salesman and tell him not to hold his breath waiting. I suppose if you exchange a lot you could do the math and determine if it's worth that sort of money to you. I'd take me a long time to validate spending nearly $6,000 just for dual affiliation or to jump from I.I. over to RCI.

 

[Doc]

Thanks. We didn't purchase the RCI option.

 

[Quadmaniac]

I am a member also interested in the RCI option. I came to Vegas with my wife for the explanation/presentation. I should have known it was really just another sales pitch. We were told that we could only purchase the option while on property and that if we chose not to purchase during this visit, that we would not have the opportunity to purchase the RCI option again for another year and that we would have to return to the property to do so. The RCI option costs $5990 per deed or unit and that doesn't include the 1st years annual fee. When I spoke with RCI, they said that the price to purchase in at Tahiti village is solely at the discretion of the resort and not set by RCI.
If my math is correct, with nearly five hundred units on property each deeded for 52 weeks, that is 500 x 52 x $5990 = $155,740,000. That's a lot of money to be made by ASNY by offering this option, and what did ASNY pay RCI to enter the program? They won't tell us. In reality, weeks have likely been double sold, and my number is far below what can be earned by ASNY by selling this option. ASNY already made some good money on the buy back of Tahiti after the bankruptcy while we gained nothing. In fact, all the phase 3 and phase 4 changes we were promised are now permanently off the table, the value of our investment is down, and yet ASNY wants to ask us for even more money. New owners can buy the same units now for much less than several years ago and this includes the RCI option (no additional fee), but the old, faithful, responsible paying owners have to pay $5990 to opt in. As you can tell, I am very upset about this. I think we deserve a better explanation as owners. I am absolutely convinced that the motivation to offer this service was not "how can we increase the value for owners?" but rather "how can we get more money from these guys?"

They've done this at other TS as well when it switches to RCI and it was about $6K as well to "upgrade". Why upgrade something that is worth nothing ? If I wanted RCI points, I would just go buy them on resale or if I really wanted TV with RCI - sell the one you have and buy a resale for next to nothing with RCI "upgrade".