New limits to RCI Points usage just announced

[reddiablosv]

Points Cap! Crap!

F..K! RCI points. We can't rent the points!..... We can't find a good trade!...What good are the points if we can't at least get good airfare!!...Just another RCI scam!!! Sell your RCI points resorts! Short Hyndam, RCI and Cendant! Drive them under. Ben

 

[sjschuster]

In addition, we have made another important change to the program concerning the number of Points you can use per calendar year. You can now use up to (a) 33% of your annual Points allotment, or (b) 25,000 Points, whichever is greater. An upper limit of 250,000 Points per calendar year applies.

I just called RCI to use my 130k points before Dec 10. Was planning a rt ticket to London for my son who will be studying there this spring and maybe some Disney Park Hopper passes. Well, should I be surprised when the VC told me that I could purchase neither until Wednesday, December 10. He proceeded in telling me that they suspended "interncontinental" travel in May and park hopper passes shortly after, all to be re-instated magically, on Wednesday, December 10. Coincidence? I don't think so. Now, the only thing I can use these points for is domestic travel (or to Carribean or to Canada). Now I just need to sell my PFD weeks, my sole points week and abandon RCI like they have abandoned me!

 

[charford]

I was going to use my points for a trip I'd planned to Europe too. No Europe for me. Currently, you can still use the points to Hawaii, which was the best bang for the buck for me. To use my last bunch of points, I bought my sister and her dh tickets to HI, with accomodation thrown in. I had had enough travel plans for the next 10 months.

 

[PA-]

I just called RCI to use my 130k points before Dec 10. Was planning a rt ticket to London for my son who will be studying there this spring and maybe some Disney Park Hopper passes. Well, should I be surprised when the VC told me that I could purchase neither until Wednesday, December 10. He proceeded in telling me that they suspended "interncontinental" travel in May and park hopper passes shortly after, all to be re-instated magically, on Wednesday, December 10. Coincidence? I don't think so. Now, the only thing I can use these points for is domestic travel (or to Carribean or to Canada). Now I just need to sell my PFD weeks, my sole points week and abandon RCI like they have abandoned me!

Apparently they were being honest. I just called, and they said they just yesterday began selling Disney tickets using RCI Points.

The deal is a 4 day pass for $175 plus $29 fee plus 25,000 RCI Points. I've already sold my RCI Points account (just waiting for it to transfer) and my PFD account, so I'll soon be done with rci permanently.

 

[Dottie]

It sure was better a few years ago. If I remember correctly I got two 4 day Disney passes for 23000 points each and a $69 processing fee. I remember that early on with points you could exchange points for a cruise. Then they changed that to max 50000 points and pay higher than the usual online rate for a cruise. I have only tried to use points for an airline ticket a couple of times but it did not work out in my favor. They have always made car rentals too expensive for points.

 

[TerryBear]

We have 6,500,000 points we can move any time, first last June RCI restricted just our resort to using 60,000 points for point partners,shortly after I heard points partners had been sold the year before and that they where in trouble, then later on I heard they will restrict all RCI members to 60,000 points. I hear from my resort dont worry they will make it good. Then I find out they will not make it good , just want to change you more money for basicly nothing to redo your contract, but if you signed a new contract you could dived you points over 25 years and use those yearly points to fly with, well now RCI done it again, made all those points worthless. Not sure what to do now?Terry

 

[Jimster]

Points

I share your pain. I too have points that can not be used in their partners program. I can not put on here what I feel or it would be censored, but they are definitely among the worst companies on the planet.

 

[carolhab]

When did they send this info out? I don't recall getting anything about this. Thanks, Carol

 

[jancpa]

RCI sent out an email notiflying us of the new restrictions on 12/3/2008 effective 12/10/2008. There was a flurry of activity on 12/8 & 9 (discussed on TUG) to use up large point balances for airline tickets before the 25,000 point limitation took effect.

 

[AwayWeGo]

P. F. D., Shmee Eff Dee.

With the new limits, you will only be able to use PFD for RCI Points resorts.

Really ?

PFD points can no longer be used for Raiding The Weeks Inventory ?

That makes no sense at all. That is, when I use PFD points to reserve a week at an RCI Weeks timeshare, I'm basically just doing a straight-weeks exchange that takes a detour into & then back out of RCI Points.

Plus, points are points. The points total shown in my RCI account at any given time is apt to be a blend of PFD points plus regular points, & likewise the points I "spend" for any particular reservation are also apt to be a blend.

How does RCI propose to make sure I'm not using any PFD points for a points-based reservation into a non-points timeshare ?

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​

 

[gorevs9]

Really ?

PFD points can no longer be used for Raiding The Weeks Inventory ?

That makes no sense at all. That is, when I use PFD points to reserve a week at an RCI Weeks timeshare, I'm basically just doing a straight-weeks exchange that takes a detour into & then back out of RCI Points.

Plus, points are points. The points total shown in my RCI account at any given time is apt to be a blend of PFD points plus regular points, & likewise the points I "spend" for any particular reservation are also apt to be a blend.

How does RCI propose to make sure I'm not using any PFD points for a points-based reservation into a non-points timeshare ?

Maybe Bocabum99 thought the renting of Weeks units was via the Points Partners program .

Unfortuantely there are ways for RCI to know where the points come from, and could start limiting PFD usage as well.

 

[TerryBear]

We have only used our points with points partners, on flights, earlier last year RCI resticked our resorts points usage. We did not have a yearly alotment of points we could tranfer a million points or more a year if we wanted to. We are now limited to 60,000 points a year for points partners unless you sign a new contract and they are telling people if you sign a new contact then it is unlimited again. I dont expect that to last long. There is a class action law suit againist RCI for singling out our resort. I cant help but think that RCI limited all members because of the law suit. I also would not expect point partners to last long if they are resticking points to 25,000 points. There is a web site that explains how RCI works and will answer questions about the inside working of RCI, it is most about or resort but intesting reading it , has a lot of info about sales tactics. www.premier-originalresorts.com Terry