Iwant2gonow
TUG Member
- Joined
- Jan 2, 2006
- Messages
- 354
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- Location
- Bluffton, South Carolina
- Resorts Owned
- Sheraton Vistana, Mountain View at Crown Ridge
I have an RCI membership good through 2020. I have been saving my TPU’s in RCI thinking that I would put in OGS for San Fran 2017 May through Oct any dates. I was about to add my 2016 studio at Mt View at Crown Ridge in NH to raise my TPU total to 45 I thought. Recently found out RCI lowered TPU’s to 8 not 10 so would only bring my total to 43.
At this point I am disillusioned with RCI and don’t want to add more weeks to my account. I went online to SFX and almost submitted my studio for deposit but thought I better talk to a rep first (could not believe it autocompleted my timeshare, thought this was a sign they would take it). I called on Fri and learned about the great pricing offer they have going for Diamond memberships and mentioned what I wanted to deposit and trade for. Rep sounded like there was a chance the 2017 SF exchange could be possible. I almost deposited and almost purchased the Diamond membership but told rep I wanted to look over the website and would call back. Now I realize without a deposit I can’t research what kind of inventory they have in the event they can’t fulfil my first choice. I have searched for SFX info on tugs and timeshare forums and most posts are old but most say they won’t take most studios. Of course they are closed for the weekend so I cannot find out more. I do know they have a lot of Mexico availability which I am not interested in. I saw they have Santa Fe listed in directory and would like to go there, 2nd choice, but don’t know if this is as hard a trade as SF?
In the past I have made successful exchanges with RCI, TPI, and one with DAE, all to various locations with this timeshare and with Vistana. I have used II intermittently with Vistana but don’t think they will exchange my NH units. I never tried SFX because I did not think they would accept my NH timeshare because of their reputation for top tier timeshares. My NH timeshare recently downgraded to Hospitality from Silver Crown (even though offered Silver, too long for here).
Please tell me how you might proceed or if any of these smaller companies have been successful for you for a trade into SF. If you think RCI is my best bet how many TPUs do you think it would take? I asked RCI rep and he said since there are none available he could not tell me how many are needed.
At this point I am disillusioned with RCI and don’t want to add more weeks to my account. I went online to SFX and almost submitted my studio for deposit but thought I better talk to a rep first (could not believe it autocompleted my timeshare, thought this was a sign they would take it). I called on Fri and learned about the great pricing offer they have going for Diamond memberships and mentioned what I wanted to deposit and trade for. Rep sounded like there was a chance the 2017 SF exchange could be possible. I almost deposited and almost purchased the Diamond membership but told rep I wanted to look over the website and would call back. Now I realize without a deposit I can’t research what kind of inventory they have in the event they can’t fulfil my first choice. I have searched for SFX info on tugs and timeshare forums and most posts are old but most say they won’t take most studios. Of course they are closed for the weekend so I cannot find out more. I do know they have a lot of Mexico availability which I am not interested in. I saw they have Santa Fe listed in directory and would like to go there, 2nd choice, but don’t know if this is as hard a trade as SF?
In the past I have made successful exchanges with RCI, TPI, and one with DAE, all to various locations with this timeshare and with Vistana. I have used II intermittently with Vistana but don’t think they will exchange my NH units. I never tried SFX because I did not think they would accept my NH timeshare because of their reputation for top tier timeshares. My NH timeshare recently downgraded to Hospitality from Silver Crown (even though offered Silver, too long for here).
Please tell me how you might proceed or if any of these smaller companies have been successful for you for a trade into SF. If you think RCI is my best bet how many TPUs do you think it would take? I asked RCI rep and he said since there are none available he could not tell me how many are needed.