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rickandcindy23 said:
Go for it, Icydog! I think you should do it and give him some real competition by offering owners .50 more per point back. ;)
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I think he gives owners $10 and sells for $13. That's a small markup.. Any suggestions???
 
icydog said:
I'd like to start eating some of David's (Daddios) pie. I'm serious. This is an easy business model. He needs some competition. What'd you all think? Should I do it?
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what do you plan to do if you broker a deal and the owner stops making payments on their contract and the reservation is cancelled?

you will be holding the renter's money but do you just reimburse them (and probably take a hit to your reputation) or try to find a comparable room/villa for them?

questions like this make me think it won't be as easy as it sounds...
 
Hi,
I have rented and transfered to/from several times on Dis, but with the new rules I probably will go somewhere else since I am not a big poster. I also looked into having David do it, but decided it was quicker to just list them myself. I have never had any problems with renting, but I would rather transfer if I have alot of points. I would love to see something on TUG...:whoopie: for renting etc.

Denise
 
I buy a transfer once a yr. Due to I am afraid to buy more points, but need more now. Dis has changed prices up to about 12$, by limiting #s of people postings, n Dave's being 13$. I bet I am not alone. I used to love ... Looking for XX UY X points at X resort. Willing to pay X.. It was awesome.
 
sweetdana said:
I buy a transfer once a yr. Due to I am afraid to buy more points, but need more now. Dis has changed prices up to about 12$, by limiting #s of people postings, n Dave's being 13$. I bet I am not alone. I used to love ... Looking for XX UY X points at X resort. Willing to pay X.. It was awesome.
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Just go to www.mouseowners.com, you can still find a good deal. I got a transfer last year for $9/point. It only had 3 months till expiration, but it worked out beccause I had an existing ressie to swap it into.
 
dvc points rental

I always check TUG first and have been able to rent all my needed points from TUG members. Hope the word will spread and more owners will list on TUG.
 
presley said:
Or, in most of the linked cases, RCI exchanges being sold. :annoyed:
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Yikes, I wouldn't have thought TUGBrian would allow that. It's a direct violation of RCI rules and DVC rules too. In order to rent a week you should own it. This is frustrating to me:annoyed:
 
just for my own personal knowledge (as I didnt inspect every ad)...what indicates these are banked weeks? (other than the obvious ones that say THIS IS A BANKED WEEK)

As I replied in PM...it is not against TUG policy to rent out these weeks, its against rci/ii/dvc policy. We do not (because we simply cannot) inspect every ad posted in the marketplace to ensure they are not banked weeks.

I will however submit a new policy rule that all must agree to upon posting any ad, that the ad being posted does not violate any exchange or resort developer guidelines on renting units that are not your own.
 
I just read through the TUG ads of Disney weeks. They are almost all RCI because they say either $95 fee or RCI exchange.:annoyed: That's kind of a bad thing, since someone could rent the week, and if it gets cancelled by RCI because the person is renting a bunch, then people blame TUG ads. Could affect the credibility of TUG's Marketplace. That is bad for anyone who uses TUG for valid rentals.

The blatant rental of exchanges is terrible, but I realize if it's once, people think it's okay because they are only doing it once. Still, it's a commercial rental (making money).
 
Several of these are blatant enough to indicate they are RCI exchanges (at least they are honest and in those cases probably not aware). Interestingly I didn't see any listings for points rental at this time.
 
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Out of curiousity, has anyone every contacted RCI around a specific rental of a DVC exchange ? Guessing that if anyone has they (RCI) didn't do anything about it.

Chris
 
rickandcindy23 said:
The blatant rental of exchanges is terrible, but I realize if it's once, people think it's okay because they are only doing it once. Still, it's a commercial rental (making money).
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I agree that you shouldn't do it. And I'm amazed at how people post at close to full retail on ebay with RCI exchanges. Once I planned a traditional hotel disney vacation for September 13th to the 20th, and 3 months out my wife found out she was pregnant, and due on October 24th. She asked the doctor if she could travel and he said "NO I don't want you more than an hour away" so we cancelled our trip and my son was born on September 15th.

IF the above wasn't a traditional hotel stay but an RCI exchange, and I didn't have relative who wanted to take it. (I don't see that happening with my family) What should I have done? WIth RCI I would have lost the exchange fee & deposit, I may not have been able to travel at all and lost the week all together, or at least lost a bunch to TPU? Wouldn't allowing someone else to take it, and getting some of the money paid for the unused weeks been at least ethical, if not "legal"? How would I have found a friend to take it? Without listing it on a disney or timeshare forum, or Ebay?

Now I too get upset that when I decide I want to take my son to WDW for his birthday, or go for my anniversary that I'm in competition with people who are trying to book that same week, not to use, not because they will enjoy it, but because they want to make money on it.

Is there a way to determine actual destressed weeks vs people booking to sell?
 
Jay_G said:
I agree that you shouldn't do it. And I'm amazed at how people post at close to full retail on ebay with RCI exchanges. Once I planned a traditional hotel disney vacation for September 13th to the 20th, and 3 months out my wife found out she was pregnant, and due on October 24th. She asked the doctor if she could travel and he said "NO I don't want you more than an hour away" so we cancelled our trip and my son was born on September 15th.

IF the above wasn't a traditional hotel stay but an RCI exchange, and I didn't have relative who wanted to take it. (I don't see that happening with my family) What should I have done? WIth RCI I would have lost the exchange fee & deposit, I may not have been able to travel at all and lost the week all together, or at least lost a bunch to TPU? Wouldn't allowing someone else to take it, and getting some of the money paid for the unused weeks been at least ethical, if not "legal"? How would I have found a friend to take it? Without listing it on a disney or timeshare forum, or Ebay?

Now I too get upset that when I decide I want to take my son to WDW for his birthday, or go for my anniversary that I'm in competition with people who are trying to book that same week, not to use, not because they will enjoy it, but because they want to make money on it.

Is there a way to determine actual destressed weeks vs people booking to sell?
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In my mind - YES it would certainly be ethical. Any rental of an RCI exchange that only covers m/fees and exchange fee is ethical in my book, and should be legal as well.
I think there was a time when RCI said this too.
 
dundey said:
In my mind - YES it would certainly be ethical. Any rental of an RCI exchange that only covers m/fees and exchange fee is ethical in my book, and should be legal as well.
I think there was a time when RCI said this too.
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I believe it is only ok per RCI rules to recover exchange fees, not MF. That's why any DVC rental that states a $95 fee is required is pretty much in violation of RCI rules, unless the rental price is $180 (ie equivalent to the RCI exchange fee).

H
 
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