Significant Discount Off the Price Charged to the General Public.

[Walt]

Hi Madge

From FAQ ASK RCI on TUG

All of these weeks in RCI's rental inventory are first made available to RCI members for rental, by virtue of your ability to make a pending request. If you have a pending request for a week, and you don't have trading power for it, or there's nothing in the inventory when you make your request, and then that week gets deposited at a later date, or goes unrequested by those members who do have the trading power, it is claimed from the system before it is placed in the rental pool. And, all of the weeks in RCI's rental inventory are offered to members at a significant discount off the price charged to the general public.

Comments from a Vice President, RCI



RCI has made this statement on TUG’s FAQ ASK RCI.


Snap Travel offers a 30% discount off of their list rental fees to American Express card users.


The definition of Significant is: of a noticeably or measurably large amount or fairly large in amount or quantity.

Where and how do RCI members go about getting these Significant discounts?


Walt

 

[Aldo]

Isn't saying that someone doesn't have the trading power, and then arbitrarily putting the week out to rent, putting the cart before the horse with respect to the owners, anyway?

 

[Madge]

Walt,

Where is the offer being made and what is the starting price? A 30% discount on a SnapTravel offer does not necessarily equate to a lower price than RCI members receive for the same units.

It may also be the case that SnapTravel has an agreement of some kind with American Express to receive a subsidy for these transactions. RCI cannot necessarily duplicate agreements made by other companies.

 

[Madge]

Isn't saying that someone doesn't have the trading power, and then arbitrarily putting the week out to rent, putting the cart before the horse with respect to the owners, anyway?

Aldo,

Our VP was making the point that units are first offered to our members for exchange, and only after they have remained available might they move to Extra Vacations to be offered there. This does not include units that were used for non-exchange products such as cruise exchanges or Points Partners. These are not part of the exchange inventory.