kristapb
TUG Member
We are seeing quite a change in the RCI weeks value for our week for the upcoming year vs. last year. Does this always happen?
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RCI weeks value changes?
- Thread starter kristapb
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It can depend on when your week falls. We own a week 51. In 2011 Christmas falls after the week and the TPU value is 1/2 of what it is in 2010 and 2012. What weeks are you talking about?
The TPU system is still in a development phase, I guess. Lots of resorts are getting lesser TPU's than before and some are getting more. But there are also resorts where you have to use lesser TPU's than before and for some, like in NYC, you have to use about twice as much TPU's as in the beginning of the system. For instance I had a week of 22 TPU's and I needed 21 to get in a certain resort. Now the week is 19 TPU's but now I need 18 to get into the same resort in the same period. TPU's are no absolute values.
Carolinian
TUG Member
Actually, in a correctly designed system, values SHOULD change, as supply and demand factors are always changing. I have no problem at all with that aspect of Points Lite. Indeed, I would submit that it is a better and more realistic system than the frozen numbers of the regular Points system.
The problems are 1) too many of the values given make no sense whatsoever looking at supply and demand factors, 2) too often values are different at the very same point in time depending whether it is a week going in or out (values should be the same regardless of direction in an honest system), and 3) There are obvious cases of artificial manipulation of values both up and down for favored or disfavored resorts or areas.
The second factor is a big red flag that something is rotten in the system. If an exchange company were taking a cut of points as its fee for service, one would always expect the number to trade in would always exceed the number given for a deposit in order to provide for this service fee. BUT that is not the case, as RCI's fee for service is an exchange fee in cash. Thus when the values are different for the same week at the same point in time, something else is going on. If it takes more points lite to trade in than you get for a deposit, then RCI is deliberately undervaluing the deposit. If one gets more for a deposit than it takes to trade into the same week at the same point in time, then RCI is deliberately overvaluing the deposit. There are some resorts in the system that are consistently deliberately overvalued. Others are consistently deliberately undervalued. When values more periodically for changes in supply and demand, both the value in and the value out should both move at the same time and to the same number.
The problems are 1) too many of the values given make no sense whatsoever looking at supply and demand factors, 2) too often values are different at the very same point in time depending whether it is a week going in or out (values should be the same regardless of direction in an honest system), and 3) There are obvious cases of artificial manipulation of values both up and down for favored or disfavored resorts or areas.
The second factor is a big red flag that something is rotten in the system. If an exchange company were taking a cut of points as its fee for service, one would always expect the number to trade in would always exceed the number given for a deposit in order to provide for this service fee. BUT that is not the case, as RCI's fee for service is an exchange fee in cash. Thus when the values are different for the same week at the same point in time, something else is going on. If it takes more points lite to trade in than you get for a deposit, then RCI is deliberately undervaluing the deposit. If one gets more for a deposit than it takes to trade into the same week at the same point in time, then RCI is deliberately overvaluing the deposit. There are some resorts in the system that are consistently deliberately overvalued. Others are consistently deliberately undervalued. When values more periodically for changes in supply and demand, both the value in and the value out should both move at the same time and to the same number.