I am a new to Wyndham and timesharing. I have not used RCI yet. I have read several threads and statements that Wyndham points do not have as much trading power as Marriott and HGVC. What does this mean? Does it mean I would have to deposit more points than a Marriott or HGVC owner to trade for a similar unit? Will better resorts just be unavailable to me? Does the Global exchange chart for deposits account for this?
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Wyndham RCI trading power
- Thread starter tsuspeck
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Marriott trades in II ... Wyndham trades in RCI. So you will never get a Marriott using Wyndham with Wyndham points.
HGVC .. don't know which system it trades in.
Wyndham has a fixed grid for trading in RCI based upon UNIT size tanked and season of the year. The fixed grid is the Wyndham points needed to book the exchange ... season of year and size of unit.
Some times it is better than other RCI exchanging numbers ... I have RCI Points and non-Wyndham RCI TPUs ... so it is like the foreign currency decision as to what to use to book a vacation.
And also, the decision looks at which are expiring first or WHERE I have enough "currency" to book.
HGVC .. don't know which system it trades in.
Wyndham has a fixed grid for trading in RCI based upon UNIT size tanked and season of the year. The fixed grid is the Wyndham points needed to book the exchange ... season of year and size of unit.
Some times it is better than other RCI exchanging numbers ... I have RCI Points and non-Wyndham RCI TPUs ... so it is like the foreign currency decision as to what to use to book a vacation.
And also, the decision looks at which are expiring first or WHERE I have enough "currency" to book.
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There used to be an issue with Wyndham trading power in RCI - the system was very opaque, and Wyndham deposits were often not powerful enough to draw the best RCI exchanges. A few years ago they made a change to a fixed point grid so that is no longer an issue, and the system is much more transparent. If something is available in RCI and you have the Wyndham points to make the trade, you can make the trade. There is still a question of whether the trade is a good value for the owner - because it is a fixed grid, it is a better value on high-demand exchanges, like NYC or DVC, less of a good value for an average exchange in an oversaturated area, for instance. But the issue of "trading power" is no longer a question.