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DVC SSR & other timeshare
- Joined
- Feb 5, 2004
I have an individual RCI Weeks membership, outside DVC, related to my other timeshare (plural). I've been working an "issue" with RCI for the past few weeks and have twice, recently, phoned into RCI. After supplying my RCI Membership number the phone rep has asked, "Is this about your Weeks account or your Points account?"
This question is strange to me as I don't, knowingly, have an RCI Points account. I had one, briefly ~2004'ish, but cancelled it. So today I pursued the question just a bit, "Weeks ... but I'm surprised that you see a Points account for my membership. Is that because I also own DVC?" The answer came back, "Yes."
I tried pushing for just a bit more info ... "How is it that DVC is attached to my individual RCI Weeks account when DVC's relationship to RCI is a corporate membership?" No answer from the RCI Rep.
So I'm curious. DVC never asked for my individual RCI information and I never had reason to give my DVC info to RCI. So how are these points connected? I s'pose DVC shared membership info, at minimum Name + Address, to RCI at some point in time. Perhaps when we gained the ability to search RCI's rental weeks?
Hmmm. I wonder if this data-relationship will continue to strengthen into new trade opportunities for those of us w/ individual RCI accounts? Where will it go ... ? (What benefits or restrictions might appear?) My imagination is stirred:
This question is strange to me as I don't, knowingly, have an RCI Points account. I had one, briefly ~2004'ish, but cancelled it. So today I pursued the question just a bit, "Weeks ... but I'm surprised that you see a Points account for my membership. Is that because I also own DVC?" The answer came back, "Yes."
I tried pushing for just a bit more info ... "How is it that DVC is attached to my individual RCI Weeks account when DVC's relationship to RCI is a corporate membership?" No answer from the RCI Rep.
So I'm curious. DVC never asked for my individual RCI information and I never had reason to give my DVC info to RCI. So how are these points connected? I s'pose DVC shared membership info, at minimum Name + Address, to RCI at some point in time. Perhaps when we gained the ability to search RCI's rental weeks?
Hmmm. I wonder if this data-relationship will continue to strengthen into new trade opportunities for those of us w/ individual RCI accounts? Where will it go ... ? (What benefits or restrictions might appear?) My imagination is stirred:
- Positive change: 1-in-4 inbound exchange restrictions created but waived for DVC members?
- Negative change: Broaden the current inbound exchange geographic restriction ("can't trade into DVC using an Orlando timeshare") to include "can't trade into DVC if your RCI account includes any Orlando timeshare including WDW DVC locations?"
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