Raintree....point club or buying a week??

[mindy35]

I just went to a presentation in Los Cabos for Raintree. The valiant Tugger I am, i immediately came here to check what I could get resale instead.

I'm confused though. We were being sold into a point system to be used at their 42 properties. Our sales guy said there is no home resort. When I check online, however, I notice that people are trying to sell particular weeks (sometimes floating) for particular properties.

Did they change their business model? Are they converting old memberships to the point system??

 

[Bill4728]

Raintree/club Regina/Whiski Jack are all wrapped up togther.

Currently, Raintree is selling their product as a point based system, but the owners in the system have every kind of week you could imagine. Whiski jack has a great deal of fixed weeks at fixed resorts. Some have floating weeks at a single resort and some a floating week at a family of resorts. Then there is a whole thing about "gems" Which was their way of calling the different point levels you needed for different sizes and seasons ( I think they had 6-8 different levels).

I've tried over the years to get a feel for this system because we love Whistler and they have 17 resorts locations there, but have never really been able to figure them out.

Good Luck

 

[JoeMid]

I just went to a presentation in Los Cabos for Raintree. The valiant Tugger I am, i immediately came here to check what I could get resale instead.

I'm confused though. We were being sold into a point system to be used at their 42 properties. Our sales guy said there is no home resort. When I check online, however, I notice that people are trying to sell particular weeks (sometimes floating) for particular properties.

Did they change their business model? Are they converting old memberships to the point system??

Current ebay auction for $100 and closing, but did you see the account of a sales presentation yesterday on TS4Ms?

 

[mindy35]

Current ebay auction for $100 and closing, but did you see the account of a sales presentation yesterday on TS4Ms?

Thanks for the forum link. I could not have explained our experience better...it was almost identical. After our 1/2 hour - 45 minute breakfast at which we asked many pointed, timeshare specific questions, we told him we only had an hour before our family would be meeting us for our activity of the day (hence fulfilling our 90 minute requirement) and he immediately got rude.

"No, no, no!!! The 90 minutes starts NOW! Don't you dare timebomb me." When we walked into the presentation room he announced loudly to anyone who would listen "Hey guys...I've been TIMEBOMBED here!"

Our difference was after we said "no thank you", he told us since we are 46 and 48 years old, we would qualify for the Senior Discount/Retirement plan.

It was the most offensive, sleazy, confusing and amateurish presentation we had ever attended.

 

[UWSurfer]

Our difference was after we said "no thank you", he told us since we are 46 and 48 years old, we would qualify for the Senior Discount/Retirement plan.

It was the most offensive, sleazy, confusing and amateurish presentation we had ever attended.

It's a bitch getting old, isn't it? :hysterical:

Timebomb...I like it. We'll have to add it to TUG lexicon, "...it had already gone an hour, so we pulled out the timebomb."

I've stated before I don't like going to these things, but envitably do, usually to save $ on something. If you have a couple spare hours and go in with the a good sense of humor, they can be quite entertaining as you enter the theater of the absurd.