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I have a major complaint with RCI points!

"Roger"

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Look before you leap.

If you believe the RCI satisfaction surveys (and, yes, some skepticism is appropriate), satisfaction levels among point owners is much higher than among Weeks owners. You are looking at one thread which expresses dissatisfaction on one issue (a concern about the availability and proper granting of 9000 point trades within the 45 day window). On the other hand, if you read the posts about the Weeks system, there is a ton of dissatisfaction there also. (In fairness, there are many satisfied owners in both systems.)

Perhaps reverting will be a good idea for you, but don't overreact based upon looking at one thread.

(Also remember, when looking at all the threads, people are more likely to post when problems occur rather than when they are satisfied. That doesn't mean the problems aren't real. Yes, they are. But when a problem does occur, someone is more likely to post than when they make a satisfactory trade. The latter is just too humdrum to post about.)
 
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I am a first time buyer, dont know anything about anything.! I brought 87,000 RCI points on ebay- home resort is St Maarten Artium, Gold RCI resort, red week. It sounds like points arn't very good is there a way to convert back to weeks with the resorts?

So sorry, I'm new, really really new! I guess I will learn! Meant to post this not reply!

RCI points are more valuable. Keep your points and don't take my rant as anything more than temporary. The problem is still there, or at least it was still there before the big RCI computer crash of 2007.
 
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