Which has greater trading power?

[RLG]

I have two weeks deposited into my II account from Sheraton properties which I recently bought.

If I want to use one for an exchange, I obviously want to use the one which has the lowest trading power that can still see the week I want.

Unfortunately, the tests I did seemed to show the same weeks available no matter which week I used.

The two weeks I've got are:

Sheraton Mountain Vista:
small 1 br
week 10

Sheraton Broadway Plantation:
2 br
week 51

I would have thought the March ski week would be a better trader, but can't find a way to measure that.

Anyone have any thoughts?

 

[DeniseM]

Starwood does not have to deposit those particular weeks for you. In fact, if you bought from the developer, they don't even have to deposit those resorts - Starwood gets to pick the weeks that are deposited with II. So in reality, there may be no difference in their exchange value.

Most of the Starwood owners and posts are on the TUG Hotel Board - hope you'll join us there!

(I'm going to ask an Admin to move this post there, too.)

 

[RLG]

Thanks for responding Denise.

I'm aware of the Hotel board. In fact, 8 out of the 11 previous threads I've started have been there. You've posted on 7 of those and been very helpful

I deliberately chose the Exchanging forum for this thread, however, because I thought that would be the best group to help me figure out which of my weeks had greater trading power.

I'm aware that there are issues regarding which weeks Starwood deposits and that the treatment is different for participants in SVN versus others. (I even started a different thread today to ask a question about that.)

That was irrelevant to the purpose of this thread, however.

I purchased resale, and these are the weeks that Starwood has *already* deposited on my behalf.

If one is a "tiger trader" and the other a "dog", I don't want to use the tiger trader for an exchange that I could "pull" with the "dog". I was hoping someone who's as knowledgable about II as you are about SVN would help me figure out if there's a difference in the trading value with II.

 

[DeniseM]

I'm sorry if I misinterpreted your post, but I still think Starwood owners are the most qualified to answer your question and this is the best place to reach Starwood owners.

 

[Stefa]

The March ski week would be the better trader, IMO, if both units were the same size, but the week 51 is a two-bedroom (and a holiday week), so that would balance it out somewhat. Trade power is also effected by how far in advance the unit was deposited with II. Online trade tests aren't the best measure of trade power because you can only see units that no one else with a reasonably strong trader has claimed.

If I had to pick, I'd say the ski week is the stronger trader, but II is a black box and none of us really knows how trade value is determined.

 

[tashamen]

.Online trade tests aren't the best measure of trade power because you can only see units that no one else with a reasonably strong trader has claimed.

If I had to pick, I'd say the ski week is the stronger trader, but II is a black box and none of us really knows how trade value is determined.

I would agree with all of this, but do think that there is a way to at least suggest that the ski week is a stronger (and possibly a much stronger) trader. That is to look at which of these can be pulled online in II with a non-Starwood trader right now. Even with a 2BR prime ski week Club Intrawest unit I can't see any inventory at Mountain Vista right now in January, February or March. But with a 1BR yellow week, and even an AC I have I can see 1 and 2BRs at Broadway Plantation for week 51 this year.

Of course this is only at one given point in time, but to me it suggests that since the week 51 is so easy to trade into it even short notice and even with an AC, it will have less trade power than the ski week.