Can a red week change?

[quest]

I am looking at a timeshare that is a red week under RCI. It is a week 18. For this resort a week 17 is white and an 18 is red in 2009. It looks like May is considered red and April white. As time goes on and week 18 falls in April will this red week suddenly become a white week or will it always be red because that is how it was sold?

Sorry for the newb question. I just don't want to be surprised by diminishing trade power.

Thanks!

 

[carl2591]

I have seen week change color.. in Mrytle beach years ago a week 9 to week 13 or so was white.. now some 20ish years later its starts red at week 9..

they are POC traders as it all on paper demand for the RCI resorts in MB to sell $hit for shineola.

the will never in most cases go down, but can come up..

where is the property located.. one good way to figure demand is to check out wyndham properties online.. they have charts that show the different demand ranges of resorts in different areas.. in orlando which is RCI red all year you have 3 demand times. Platinum, High & Value.. it quite intresting when you look at it..

go on the Wyndham board and search for "online resort directory".. its there somewhere.


now go our there and buy something..

 

[Egret1986]

You will be getting what they call a "pink" week.

I am looking at a timeshare that is a red week under RCI. It is a week 18. For this resort a week 17 is white and an 18 is red in 2009. It looks like May is considered red and April white. As time goes on and week 18 falls in April will this red week suddenly become a white week or will it always be red because that is how it was sold?

Sorry for the newb question. I just don't want to be surprised by diminishing trade power.

Thanks!

I doubt you have anything to worry about the color becoming white. However, there are varying degrees of red. As stated, some areas have all red weeks, but that doesn't mean a whole lot because some of those red weeks have a low demand time, plus some places have an over-supply of units (like Orlando).

If week 18 is the time you like to travel to the resort, then it doesn't really matter about the color. However, if you are buying it for mostly exchange purposes, a red week that is one week away from being a white week, isn't going to be a top trader. My mother has a week 18 on Hilton Head. It's a great week to go to Hilton Head; however, that week is only a good trader (not great) because the first week of May is not a high demand time.

 

[Carolinian]

They changed the calendar on the Outer Banks about fifteen or more years ago, which gave higher color codes for a number of Fall weeks, partly balanced by giving lower color codes to a lesser number of spring weeks. I think they realized the impact of Fall fishing season on the OBX with fewer owners depositing than in spring as many own to use in fishing season, and also demand from fishermen.

There was a plan not long before GPN started to expand the high and shoulder season on the OBX. One of the OBX execs who had really good ties into RCI shared it with me at the time. I remember it pushed red season into more weeks in both the fall and spring, and white also moved outward, as well. However, this change never actually was made for whatever reason.

When the first change was made, owners of weeks that changed from red to white or white to blue in the spring were ''grandfathered in'' by RCI at their former status. For many years thereafter, the resale list at the local t/s reseller would regularly show weeks marked as ''white/red'' or ''blue/white'' which were the grandfathered weeks. I have not seen weeks marked that way in several years, so I don't know if RCI still recognises that or not.

In the Weeks, system, the season designation really means little anyway, as it is the real supply / demand factors for that week that determine trading power, not season color designation. A ''blue'' week 47, when it is Thanksgiving substantially outtrades many of the pinker Red weeks, for example. In the Points system, where ''all red is the same'' for the generic points grid, the season color designation does make a real difference, but this overaveraging is one of the many things that really stink about points.

 

[John Cummings]

The only place I have seen where the color designation had any real meaning was within a resort or resort group. I used to own at a coastal California resort that was part of an 18 resort group. My resort was designated as "red" all year which meant that owners of non "red" weeks at other resorts in the group had to pay an extra fee to reserve their week at my resort. On the other hand I could reserve any week of the year for free at any of the other resorts.

As for exchange companies, it is like Carolinian said. The color designation has little or no meaning as it is simply a matter of supply vs demand.