In other words, you are being compensated. So, I guess, that makes it a commercial activity. Just trying to understand, thanks for clarifying, you are renting units during a prime travel period, taking away rooms from owners.
Wyndham isn't charging the rules, they are now in forcing the rules that are written in the directory. By enforcing the rules Wyndham is opening up available to owners who couldn't book reservations at certain locations because of mega renters.
It's not renting. I come out way behind. I maybe drink 3 beers that week, I don't smoke and I load my own ammo and only shoot my own ammo. My friend are willing to compensate me, but I don't have to accept anything. You sound angry. Were you a renter of some sort? If so, sorry if you lost income, but that's part of doing business.
Yes, I can blame mega renters, and I, along with the majority of owners do blame them. The party is over. They should accept it and go a way gracefully instead of whining like a bunch of little school girls.
And let’s not forget the sightings/distressed forum that is TUG members only. I mainly use it to follow Disney deposit patterns in RCI, but I know all the sightings posted there for both RCI and II are valuable for members looking to exchange in those companies. It’s also nice that members have a place to put distressed exchanges into the hands of someone who can use them.
New topic ?
Not angry, just pointing out that you are a commercial renter. As for me, I'm no more of a commercial renter than you are. A few GC's per year to friends and family. Compensation comes in many forms.
What I’ve seen here is a lot of folks, few if any of them megarenters, telling you that your problem with bike week is waiting until 7am for one of the most popular bookings in the system. You could wipe all megarenters off the face of the earth and 7am would still be 7 hours too late.
The thing is I am not trying to get people on my side. I did what I did and had no issues with it. I am no more special then anyone else at booking reservations. I did learn a few things along the way. But anyone can learn if they put effort in.
Good post. I just don’t see how the majority of weeks and locations make any sense to buy at developer prices. I can understand key locations and dates for skiing or holidays. For a lot of lower seasons or demand locations, the MF are equal to what it costs to rent.
I think that you might be over estimating how many folks agree with you. I do not even see a majority of people in this conversation in agreement with your argument. I get that you feel this way and you have a right to your feelings, but when the situation doesn’t change when Wyndham cracks down on the very small portion of owners ’megarenting’, who will your next target be? It should be Wyndham, and I hope you come to see that. I guess what keeps me sane in these devolving discussions is that wyndham owners on the forums are a very small portion of all owners and very few (probably none) either think about screwing other owners over or are actively angry at owners for poor availability.
Sure go for it
Yeah, and they will be not only free, but current costs will pay all costs of closing/ transfer, so a win-win for the new buyer and the seller.
So then you should have no problem getting the inventory you want, whenever you want. Since the mega renter issue will end, inventory will be there any time you want. Maybe now is a good time to buy some Wyndham points. I hope that’s the case for the leisure TS owner like yourself, I really do.
I don't see that at all. I think they would be fine with them using lower demand resorts at the full rate based on lower demand and then paying for a $99 guest cert and then renting that out. They don't want them using their VIP discounts on resale points to then rent out at a profit. The discounted benefits and other VIP benefits are a perk for personal and family use. Doing a few (now with retail vip eligible points only) likely won't get anyone in trouble. Doing it 30, 50 or 100+ times a year could be upsetting to both owners and Wyndham.
I was not sure if your question was directed to me and my post #169. If it was, there were 2 member names on the contract. The wife checked into the unit reserved in her name and a few days later the husband checked into the unit in his name that we rented. We arrived early, called them and bypassed the desk. Easy peasy.
I don't doubt it is easy. My personal feeling is that Wyndham will have a problem with that volume and consider it "commercial".
I see many differences. One is that the MRs are targeting key locations and dates. The second is you are putting a casual family vacation planner up against a business. Its kind of like a franchise owner of a Subway who charges $25 a sandwich because no other sandwich's are available and you are hungry against any owner who walks in to a Subway with inventory and pays a fair price of $5 for the sandwich. Another it is a little like price gouging during as well. Also, Wyndam is a brand and has the right to control who sells their product.