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I’ve been updating myself with RCI. The exchange fee has certainly climbed and then the exchange plus category seems r high including points. Certainly, more like a travel agency, not an ownership club
 

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I’ve been updating myself with RCI. The exchange fee has certainly climbed and then the exchange plus category seems r high including points. Certainly, more like a travel agency, not an ownership club
I agree, don’t see much but the exchange plus offered.
 

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40 TPUs expiring in June which were deposited into RCI as soon as eligible, so maybe 2022? Initially searched for France for August 2023 but gave up at the beginning of that year and instead requested Moab for spring of this year. Last month amended that search to driveable locations early May to mid-June.
It appears that that deposit will yield nothing that we want!
Thanks to TUG and purchase of a South African timeshare at the turn of the century we've had our RCI membership fee paid until 2026. That is the end of us and RCI!
 

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I have 16 tpu expiring end of may.
That us nit enough to get a week somewhere
 
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40 TPUs expiring in June which were deposited into RCI as soon as eligible, so maybe 2022? Initially searched for France for August 2023 but gave up at the beginning of that year and instead requested Moab for spring of this year. Last month amended that search to driveable locations early May to mid-June.
It appears that that deposit will yield nothing that we want!
Thanks to TUG and purchase of a South African timeshare at the turn of the century we've had our RCI membership fee paid until 2026. That is the end of us and RCI!
We own timeshares in CO that are only in RCI weeks. I deposit four summer weeks every year, unfortunately.

We have a Mansfield in Australia that is in RCI Points but is supposed to dissolve as a timeshare in the near future. Looking forward to that. It's still at 1 cent per point in MF's but it's tough to find anything in RCI that I want.

Also have a week still left (two EOY weeks that make up an annual week) at Grand Palms in Surfside Beach, SC. Been trying to sell that for a while. It's also in RCI Points and is a bit over 1 cent per point.

And we have Wyndham points, which have to be turned over to RCI when I cannot use them year after year.

I am stuck with RCI and the fees, and the worthless insurance option.
 
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