Not sure this is common sense. Marriott HOAs absorb the HK costs on some point based short stays
I stand corrected. (But not for Wyndham).
My understanding, but only from reading on TUG years ago, was the cost of the VIP perks get billed back to the VIP program (things like housekeeping, discounts, and upgrades).
What do the group rules say about timeshare sales and giveaways? Some groups don't want any listings and are just there for information, questions and answers about how to use the timeshare. Are other sales and giveaways being posted in the group?
The Hoa's absorb it but then the owners at those resorts pay it through their Mf's. I would imagine at some point if members are averaging 2 and 3 night stays at certain resorts the HOA's will demand some sort of compensation from Abound coming from the annual fee, building in the housekeeping fees into the program fee just as Wyndham does with their program fee.
True, the owners are paying for it as they are the HOA. It has been 13 years and so far the only reimbursement HOAs receive for Marriott point based stays is when they are made using Trust points. Enrolled weeks point reservations aren't and any additional cleaning or front desk costs are taken on and paid for by owners. I only really took issue with the term "common sense". Common sense is thing like not putting your hand in the fire, not something as obscure as timeshare can be.
I have no idea what the group is for, except for a bunch of people talking about their various stays and upcoming stays. It seems kind of disorganized and not much point for a group that is supposedly helping owners. I see no way to invite my aunt who owns at Wyndham Branson and her daughter-in-law, who want to get advice on using their points and points I was hoping to give to my aunt's kids.
I’m not Amy Pavlock, and actually I’ve joined and left that group several times because occasionally she and one of the other mods in that group have gotten on my nerves (totally my problem, not theirs, which is why I quietly dipped out of there).
Well, that is actually good news to me. I am glad I am not the only one. Maybe Richelle has answers as to why I cannot post my giveaway there. I think a group helping owners should allow people to give away points to other owners. They know what they are getting into. What better way to help other owners?
Unless it's something obvious, we typically leave notes as to why it was something that was denied. I do not know your Facebook name, so I have no way of going back into the log to see why it was denied.
I am not sure what you mean by disorganized, but we do manage a group of 39k members. Maybe when you do that, you can tell us how we can be more organized. The admins talk to each other when they need to be on the same page with something. We offer very few exceptions to the rules so that it's fair to everyone. We are pretty consistent on the moderation, so I am not sure what you mean by disorganized.
I think facebook in general tends to seem disorganized. Just a constant stream of collective conciousness in my opinion. My wife follows Owners Helping Owners and other Wyndham facebook groups. Today she was hoping to show me pictures she had seen the day before and scrolled forever to find them.
If she had not already tried it, show her the search option in the group. If the post had the resort name on it, she can search for that resort and choose “most recent”. It could save her some time and headache.
We are in the same situation. Old timers former Founders in the close to 30 year ownership range. Over the past 10 years, we've seen our benefits plummet. When we purchased we went over every contract word by word and questioned our personal sales rep and other owner's updaters (ha ha) about specifics. Unsurprisingly, they did not tell the truth. The funny part is that Wyndham did operate more than fairly for close to 20 years and then little by little took things away. We used to tell folks how great Wyndham/Fairfield was but at that 10 year line of demarcation and after talking to many Wyndham friends, we can't say that anymore.
You stop comments on various posts, when I am trying to answer a comment and you are just generally heavy-handed with the moderation of posts. Just today, I was trying to figure out why an owner was charged $6.00 per day at Kingsgate, since we have an upcoming trip. I see that comments have been stopped. That is heavy moderation. It's very controlling of free speech, and it's not even Facebook doing it, it's your little group of control freaks.