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HICV and S F X

Mongoose

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Can I book a week with HICV using points then deposit that with SFX?
 

jackio

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I have done that - made the reservation and then gave it to SFX.
 

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I have done that - made the reservation and then gave it to SFX.
How did it work out? Did you later add a guest certificate?
 

jackio

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tschwa2

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Can I book a week with HICV using points then deposit that with SFX?
Have you ever used SFX? Where are you looking to exchange to?
 

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Have you ever used SFX? Where are you looking to exchange to?
No. Not yet. Looking to exchange into Hawaii in 2021 or 2022.
 

Rdub79

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I am in the process of doing this now. Booked a max time offer for west village and depositing it into SFX in hopes to trade into a Vidanta Mexico resort. The resort fee for Vidanta through SFX is supposed to be much lower then the one through RCI. I’ll let you know how it works out.
 

Rdub79

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I am in the process of doing this now. Booked a max time offer for west village and depositing it into SFX in hopes to trade into a Vidanta Mexico resort. The resort fee for Vidanta through SFX is supposed to be much lower then the one through RCI. I’ll let you know how it works out.
Well that was an epic failure. Turned out HICV will not let you deposit a max time reservation to an external exchange system. I thought I had gamed the system! Looks like I will have to just find a good value shoulder season week to reserve and deposit.
 

Bmatrose

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Well that was an epic failure. Turned out HICV will not let you deposit a max time reservation to an external exchange system. I thought I had gamed the system! Looks like I will have to just find a good value shoulder season week to reserve and deposit.
Do they even allow that? i would be surprised.
 

Rdub79

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Do they even allow that? i would be surprised.
The lady I spoke with at Orange Lake said I can make a regular reservation with my points and then deposit that reservation into SFX. Just not the max time reservation. Although you can send a guest to a max time reservation, so I don't really see why we can't deposit that same reservation with an exchange company.
 

Gypsy65

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The lady I spoke with at Orange Lake said I can make a regular reservation with my points and then deposit that reservation into SFX. Just not the max time reservation. Although you can send a guest to a max time reservation, so I don't really see why we can't deposit that same reservation with an exchange company.

My guess would be that people would be grabbing these and doing just that
Therefore other owners wouldn’t be able to use this perk for themselves

And I think HICV would rather have you at their own resort to either spend $$ , buy more TS, or just to have a busy resort which I assume helps sell others TS
 

Bmatrose

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The lady I spoke with at Orange Lake said I can make a regular reservation with my points and then deposit that reservation into SFX. Just not the max time reservation. Although you can send a guest to a max time reservation, so I don't really see why we can't deposit that same reservation with an exchange company.
let us know if it works, i would be interested.
 
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