HYATT - Trading into sunset harbor using hyatt points

[dbmarch]

I agree. I have also given them names behind a few of the the Ebay ID's. They do not enforce it or if they do, they do not enforce it consistently. Most of the rentals are for HSH studios. I dont know if they were 2 BR that were split up due to someone reserving the studio or if they were just studios deposited. I imagine not a lot of people would reserve just a studio as those units are very small.

They know these reservations are rented. It is pretty obvious when a Hyatt vacation club owner who doesn't own in HSH reserves guest certificates week after week at HSH.

Regardless - they should have a consistent policy. Either change the policy and allow it , or they should enforce the no rental rule. I will continue to poke at this. Others should too if it bothers them. It dries up inventory and makes it more challenging to make legitimate reservations.

So next time you are in an owners meeting, ask them why they turn a blind eye towards the Ebay rentals.

If Hyatt says "they monitor ebay and craigslist and pursue those rentals", there would be no need to send them the Ebay links if Hyatt would just save the Ebay Studio Gang (yamoondo, spurrier777, malwild, vickid24, margaritaguy, susan5036 and marzue1) seller ID's to their "Favorite Seller" watch page.

Even though you've regularly sent Hyatt the various links, they don't appear do anything with them as the quantity of HSH listings on Ebay seems to be increasing.

 

[Kal]

I agree. I have also given them names behind a few of the the Ebay ID's...

Who at Hyatt did you discuss this issue with? Hopefully it was at the corporate level.

 

[dbmarch]

All I could think of doing at the time was emailing it to the vacation club email. Make a recommendation on whom to contact and I'll pursue that.

I have been a bit dismayed by the response so far. We'll be down to KW soon so I figured I would just talk in person to see where it goes.

It's one thing to have a policy that prohibits rentals and let a few rentals slip through by owners who just can't use their reservations. I am fine with this.

It's another to allow people to establish a business by buying lower cost Hyatt units and then reserving multiple ( in some cases 10-20 reservations blocks) weeks and then renting them on Ebay. This is what is occurring.

We were hoping for our next trip we would trade our 2 BR Week for ~ 2 weeks in a 1BR at HSH but this Ebay activity makes it really difficult to accomplish.

 

[bdh]

An old member of the ESG returns

The latest HSH Ebay listing is from a Studio Gang member that seemed to have "retired" - but based on ihavetwins1 current listing that contains six different dates for 4 night studio reservations, they are back in business (no pun intended as its definitely a business).

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...&ssPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en#ht_607wt_917