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Carl D said:
Okay... But I recall people here actually boasting about their "bait & switch" tactics used in the past. They actually bragged about using a high quality unit to make the trade, then switch it to a low quality unit.
Not the biggest deal in the world to me, as I will rarely (if ever) trade my DVC.
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Several years Ago "bait & switch" tactics worked really well with RCI.
RCI reps would allow trade power overrides to make the switch.
From my own personal experience RCI does not normally allow this anymore.
You can switch the deposit only when the deposit you want to use has the trade power to confirm the week.
I have been told sorry we can't switch the deposit when I did not have enough trade power.
 
JEFF H said:
Often times I will have different weeks searching for different resorts and dates. When I get confirmations I will sometimes find I should use the deposit that expires sooner for the confirmation.
Trade power is another valid c. I don't want to waste a really good trader on a easy exchange if I have a lower power week that will pull the same confirmation.
When I don't have enough trade power RCI will tell me sorry I can't see your confirmed week with that deposit.
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Your particular situation may be completely valid and legit. However That's not really a true example of what used to be described here as the "bait & switch".
For whatever reason (no personal experience, just what I read here), after a hard week was snagged, RCI let you reconfirm that week with a much lower trading week. That ploy was used quite often, and was a known way to get a good week in exchange for a poor week.
Perhaps RCI has clamped down on that loop hole? The OP didn't sound that way, but who knows?
Again, I'm not any sort of expert here. I'm just going by what I've read.
 
JEFF H said:
Several years Ago "bait & switch" tactics worked really well with RCI.
RCI reps would allow trade power overrides to make the switch.
From my own personal experience RCI does not normally allow this anymore.
You can switch the deposit only when the deposit you want to use has the trade power to confirm the week.
I have been told sorry we can't switch the deposit when I did not have enough trade power.
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Thank you, this is pretty much what I was trying to say.

Unfortunately, I didn't see this post before I wrote my last post.
 
I just called to see if my original week had enough trading power to make the switch, and they said yes. They cant make the switch unless the week you want to use can pull similar trades. SO, looks like my dog traders arent such dogs after all!
 
krmlaw said:
Oh yeah,

My dog traders were pulling 75,000

My good traders I got back are pulling 148,000

Now THERE is a difference!!! :banana:
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Okay... this is really confusing. I'll be new to RCI since I own DVC. So, I'm just trying to understand this. If RCI is mostly a point system then, why does trade power come into play? Should it just be you need X amount of points to stay at Y resort? If they are doing what you saying above then, they truely aren't a point system. It would be no different than II. It seems like over the years one of the GREATEST agruments for RCI was that it was a point based system. So, what gives?
 
RCI has points and weeks. Not all RCI accounts and members own points, many own certain weeks at resorts.
 
Trade Power is only in the Weeks System, not Points System

ciscogizmo1 said:
Okay... this is really confusing. I'll be new to RCI since I own DVC. So, I'm just trying to understand this. If RCI is mostly a point system then, why does trade power come into play? Should it just be you need X amount of points to stay at Y resort? If they are doing what you saying above then, they truely aren't a point system. It would be no different than II. It seems like over the years one of the GREATEST agruments for RCI was that it was a point based system. So, what gives?
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RCI has both Weeks and Points accounts. When you are using the Weeks side, everything you can exchange for is based on the trade power of the week that you are exchanging with. There is no trade power required in Points.
 
krmlaw said:
RCI has points and weeks. Not all RCI accounts and members own points, many own certain weeks at resorts.
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I still don't get it as you said that you used your dog trader is pulling 75,000 and your good traders are pulling 148,000. so, it appears from an outsider that you are using points. What does 75,000 and 148,000 mean?
 
ciscogizmo1 said:
I still don't get it as you said that you used your dog trader is pulling 75,000 and your good traders are pulling 148,000. so, it appears from an outsider that you are using points. What does 75,000 and 148,000 mean?
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The number of units available against those deposits, I would guess? That would make sense b/c expiring weeks would see fewer deposits than weeks that have a trading period extending a couple of years into the future.

Also it wouldn't really imply anything about trade power if there's only a few months left on the trading period.
 
wackymother said:
Also it wouldn't really imply anything about trade power if there's only a few months left on the trading period.
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How would this relate to the bait & switch scenario? That may not be what you're referring to, but I'm curious regardless.

Wouldn't (shouldn't) the dog trader need the trade power to pull the great week at the time the OP snagged it with the good trader?

Confusing... let me try again..

In other words, just because the dog can pull the week *now* should be of no consequence, unless it was able to pull it at the time she got it with her strong trader.

A bit confusing, but I hope you get my point.
 
Carl D said:
How would this relate to the bait & switch scenario? That may not be what you're referring to, but I'm curious regardless.

Wouldn't (shouldn't) the dog trader need the trade power to pull the great week at the time the OP snagged it with the good trader?

Confusing... let me try again..

In other words, just because the dog can pull the week *now* should be of no consequence, unless it was able to pull it at the time she got it with her strong trader.

A bit confusing, but I hope you get my point.
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The week that has less time left to exchange will see fewer weeks. Nothing to do with power--just with time.

A week with ONE year left in the exchange period might see 50,000 units available. The same week, with TWO years left in its exchange period, might see 100,000 available units. Just because there's twice as much time left in the exchange period.

Also, this is clearly not a case of bait and switch. The OP called RCI and they told him that yes, the expiring week WOULD pull the exchange he got. Otherwise they would not have made the change.
 
wackymother said:
The week that has less time left to exchange will see fewer weeks. Nothing to do with power--just with time.

A week with ONE year left in the exchange period might see 50,000 units available. The same week, with TWO years left in its exchange period, might see 100,000 available units. Just because there's twice as much time left in the exchange period.

Also, this is clearly not a case of bait and switch. The OP called RCI and they told him that yes, the expiring week WOULD pull the exchange he got. Otherwise they would not have made the change.
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Okay... that totally makes more sense to me. I didn't realize he was comparing how many units were available.

AND, WOW that is alot of availability..
 
Glad someone explained it, as it was confusing to me :) haha.

Yeah, RCI told me the second week had so many more units because it expired further out, almost another year. So instead of seeing 75,000 units, I can now see 150,000 units available.
 
krmlaw said:
Glad someone explained it, as it was confusing to me :) haha.
Yeah, RCI told me the second week had so many more units because it expired further out, almost another year. So instead of seeing 75,000 units, I can now see 150,000 units available.
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So I guess you just wrongly assumed you had a dog trader based on the available number of exchanges available shown on RCI exchange page?

Its really funny all the terms that get thrown around here and the different things they mean to different people.
Bait & switch
reconfirm
Dog Trader
Tiger trader
And let not forget RCI spinning, I get dizzy just thinking about it all. :)
 
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Yeah! Here i was thinking my trader was bad, but it was just because it expired soon, which makes sense.
 
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