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If you haven't visited RCI.COM lately, you may be surprised to learn that the entire website has been completely changed.Some members have complained that they like the old website design better but time will tell if that is just the usually resistance to change scenario.One thing that seems harder to find is the place to search by resort name or resort ID number.For your convenience, you can

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This is the last part of the Timeshare RCI Points series - get links to the entire series.7. What if I want to drop out of RCI Points and return to my old membership?Answer: This question makes an invalid assumption that the only way to own RCI Points is to "convert" a weeks ownership to a points ownership. For ownerships and resorts that qualify, another way is to keep your weeks ownership and

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We're continuing the Timeshare RCI Points series - get links to the entire series.6. What happens if I own both Points weeks and non-Points weeks?Answer: You will have two RCI accounts but only one annual membership fee. One RCI weeks account and one RCI Points account.You can use your weeks account and your points account as separate transactions. Also if you own your weeks in certain resorts

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We're continuing the Timeshare RCI Points series - get links to the entire series.4. How do I use Points for non-timeshare products?Answer: A simple phone call to the RCI Points toll free number.The term for non-timeshare products is RCI Points "Partners". 5. What fees do I pay if I am a Points member?Answer: See RCI Points Fees Chart which has all RCI Points fees. Tags: rci | rci points | points

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We're continuing the Timeshare RCI Points series - get links to the entire series.2. How do I use them?Answer: To use your points, you simply call the RCI Points toll free number and tell the RCI Guide what you want to do.3. What if I want to stay at my own resort?Answer: Any use of RCI Points involves being able to confirm an exchange EXCEPT for use in your own resort. In your own resort you can

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Today we start a new series about questions many have about RCI Points. RCI Points Question 1. What are RCI points?Answer: RCI Points is a type of timeshare ownership in an RCI affiliated resort, where RCI has assigned a point value for all RCI resorts, assigning a certain number of points for a vacation stay of one night or more, for any size unit and any time of the year.The points can be

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RCI owns no resorts, it is merely an exchange company, and an excellent one at that, but I seem to have better luck in exchanging, using my RCI Points. But for certain locations where someone wants absolute 100% assurance of staying in a particular resort at a particular time, that person can only achieve that 100% guarantee by owning in that resort during the week(s) desired. On the other hand,

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Here's a little about my personal experience with RCI Points.I own RCI Points and I am very happy with them.I have been watching and studying RCI Points for years, and while I believe it is an excellent product, I really believe that there is a good reason and a good argument for ownership of both types of vacation timeshare, RCI Points as well as the traditional one-week type of timeshare. What

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If you own RCI Points at an RCI Points affiliated resort, you can use those points to vacation in any RCI resort, be it a traditional RCI "weeks" resort, or an RCI Points resort.If you don't spend all your points in the first year, the points automatically can be used in the second year. They do not carry over to the third year.We have a great example scenario on our website so you can easily

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RCI Points offers participants the flexibility of using points for shorter mini-vacations, as well as travel-related RCI Points Partners products, including airfare, cruises, car rental, hotels, and theme park and golf activities.RCI has assigned a points value for every size unit and every time frame for every one of it's over 3,700 resorts worldwide, and RCI Points members receive a hard copy

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But it is not really new since RCI Points has been around for several years now, but to many timeshare owners it is little understood, if understood at all.I am a timeshare broker with a signed agreement with an RCI Points resort to sell RCI Points and I own RCI Points myself.While I don't believe that the RCI Points product is the cure all or answer all for every single timeshare owner's needs,

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Having been in the vacation timeshare industry since 1981, we find this announcement most interesting.One of the most interesting announcements we have ever seen has just been published in the Las Vegas Sun.Interesting to me because I have seen the industry evolve from the days that the world thought of timeshare as something like a back door pool hall, to what it has become today with the

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Renting Points:RCI Points members can rent additional points to complete a reservation. Point rentals are currently $.02 per point. Members may currently rent up to 50% of their current Use Year point allotment to complete a reservation. Rented RCI Points may only be used in the current Use Year and cannot be saved or transferred. Rental of RCI Points is on a first-come, first-served basis, if

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Revenue from RCI, Cendant's timeshare exchange business, increased 7%, reflecting a 6% increase in exchange and subscription fee revenue and a 19% increase in other departments.Read full story hereTags: rci points | timeshare points | timeshare resale | timeshare resales | time share resales | rci | timeshare points | timeshare points wholesalers

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I have been wondering the same thing that I am sure a lot of you have been wondering - Do RCI Points owners have a better chance of getting an exchange than an RCI Weeks owner?While there is no proof and there probably never will be, I can share two actual exchange experiences that seem to indicate that the RCI Points owner has the upper hand.One is for my own personal exchange:I had an exchange

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I don't think there is a timeshare owner on earth who hasn't wondered what formula RCI uses to determine which deposited weeks have the most "trade power". It is a secret that only the RCI programmers know.And not having to worry about learning or understanding that secret is to me one of the main advantages of owning RCI Points.As an RCI Points owner, you can count on the fact that when you

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Can I choose resorts from the RCI Weeks Directory?Yes, as an RCI Points Member, you have access to all of the RCI Weeks Resorts. The Points required to stay at weeks resorts are explained at the beginning of the weeks section in every region of the RCI Points Community Guide.The only difference is that when RCI Points members stay in an RCI Weeks resort, the stay must be for seven days.RCI Points

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I recently took my own poll of persons who own RCI Points and I asked them what they would say is the number one reason they bought RCI Points instead of a traditional one-week timeshare.The answer:The ability to get more than one week of vacation our the timeshare, while not increasing the amount they have to pay for maintenance fee. In other words the one annual maintenance fee only entitles

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One thing that you as an owner of RCI Points can count on is that you can resale your RCI Points ownership.Some people who are either unscrupulous or unknowledgeable have been telling owners that they cannot sell their RCI Points without going through the developer.This is uncategorically not true.In fact, contained within the official RCI Points disclosure guide published by RCI, explains how to

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Many people ask if there is financing for our RCI Points listings.The answer is that there is financing on some of the listings and not on others.The reason is that some of our listings are with private individuals who do not take credit cards so there is no financing available.On many of our listings your are actually buying at a wholesale price that we have negotiated with the applicable

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'Timeshare Spammer' Set to Plead Guilty I think that it is safe to say that there is not a one of us who is not totally sick of receiving unsolicited spam in our inboxes.Being in the timeshare business, which is finally shedding it's long ago reputation of being a sleazy product (generated mostly by the type of salesman resorts used to hire), I must say that it is kinda nice to know that the

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What happens you cancel a confirmed RCI Weeks reservation that was made with RCI Points?Your Points will be returned according to the RCI Points Cancellation policy, and any fees returned according to the RCI Weeks Cancellation policy.Remember that each type of ownership has it's own fees.Complete information can be found at www.TimesharePointsWholesalers.comTags: timeshare points | global points

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If you are already a member of RCI and become an RCI Points member, what happens to your subscriptions which you have already paid to RCI?RCI takes any pre-paid RCI Weeks membership subscriptions that have not been used. It will be pro-rated and credited to your RCI Points account, unless RCI advised otherwise.You will not have to have pay for two RCI accounts.See our home page for more RCI

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RCI is an exchange company, so the only way they make money is by charging exchange fees.RCI Points is to RCI just another exchange except it can be done in daily increments instead of weekly.So there is a fee of $19 per night to book your RCI Points, up to a meximum of $79 for a week.This compares to $149 for an RCI Weeks exchange for a one week interval.However if you use your RCI Points in a

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RCI Points owners can deposit RCI Weeks into their points account, and use it as RCI Points.A caveat howver is that if the weeks resort every converts to RCI Points, that right ends immediately,In other words, before you buy a weeks timeshare for the sole purpose of using it to obtain RCI Points, be sure that there is no possibility that the resort will ever choose to convert to RCI Points.More

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