Circumstances of Manhattan Club being offered as $$$ Extra Vacations

[Conan]

The following Q and A appeared in Ask RCI a few months ago:

cbogan,
I am absolutely fed up with RCI - in addition, I'm led to believe that they are actually renting out deposited weeks!! [br]
RCI offers units as Extra Vacations when they were used for non exchange products, such as cruises or Points Partners. RCI also acquires some units directly from resorts. Other prime exchange inventory is held for Weeks exchange requests. http://www.tugbbs.com/forums/showpost.php?p=45465&postcount=49

I understand that a big block of Manhattan Club weeks is being offered as Extra Vacations at very high prices. I think we can assume that these weeks were "acquired" by RCI directly from the resort.

Since Manhattan Club is maybe the most highly sought RCI property, how does RCI decide what proportion of those weeks to sell for cash and what proportion to "[hold] for Weeks exchange requests"?

Isn't there something of a conflict of interest here, since RCI needs to decide whether it would rather collect thousands in cash rather than a bunch of paltry exchange fees?

Looking forward.
Richard

 

[Madge]

I understand that a big block of Manhattan Club weeks is being offered as Extra Vacations at very high prices.

rklein001,

I do not see any Manhattan Club units (4064) in our inventory being offered as Extra Vacations. Are you perhaps seeing the 5-night stays at Manhattan Club (8057)? These are provided to RCI by the resort in an effort to use their surplus partial weeks. Owners can use partial weeks and this often leaves surpluses.