Not only is original post a year old, but as of March 2009, Wyndham points can no longer be" rented"....
How do you figure? Last I knew, Wyndham offered a system called “Extra Holidays” for their owners to rent out unneeded points. My understanding of this was to sell points bought back by the company, to rent timeshare to people who aren’t owners (and who they will probably put the sales presentation on for). Perhaps it was a different program, but either way they wanted something like 40% of the sale, and they weren’t asking terribly high prices for the rooms, IIRC.
I, have been contacted by TBO and GMAC as well. The GMAC guy has been persistent as of late, calling at least once each month. I haven’t taken or returned his calls, but sooner or later I’m going to get tired of it & tell him to stop calling. I’m unemployed right now, and I could use the money without putting down $1k that I don’t have.
You can also just do a guest confirmation, but the legal side of such rentals is tricky. That is, if your lessee destroys the room, you need to make them legally responsible - or so I understand. Granted, that’s just one reason I don’t rent out to people I don’t know.
Don't do that. Join
http://forums.atozed.com and rent it yourself. The site is free, no cost. It does require registration.
Is this forum operated BY Wyndham? I find it hard to believe they’d do so, because I was told that while they can’t do much about it, they don’t like the idea of people renting their points out. I suppose it keeps them from pitching / pressuring the sales thing to legit “guests” as opposed to people who are stumbling in after buying a $200, 4-night “vacation" to X resort.