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RCI wants your deposit: Badly!

jesuis1837

jesuis1837

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I have to be honest with you, until last evening i was still having some doubts about what most of you wrote about RCI renting your deposit week instead of keeping it as what we have been told at first for using as exchange...

I guess it has happened to you before but for me it was a first: First time since i am owner at my resort that i have planned to use my week (for the summer 2007) instead of going somewhere else. A representative of RCI called us last night to ask me why i had not deposited yet my 2007 (!!!) week with them! Told the guy simply because we already made up our mind that we will be in Palm Beach next summer. He told us he was willing to give us an extra vacation right away for (forgot the name of the resorts) Miami, Hawaii or at the Hyatt Regency (i remember that one) in Washington D.C. if we ever change our mind..... :eek: :confused: Didnt bite but was wondering if it is now a common tactical by RCI to make us deposit our upcoming years...
 
I have been getting a lot of calls from them lately. The number shows up as 506/637-6059 on caller ID. I made the mistake of answering the first call the day I came home from the hospital. Not feeling good at the time, I interupted the speel and told her I was just back from the hospital and it was not a good time. She apoligized and hung up. But have been getting 2-3 calls a day since then. Frankly I don't want to take the chance of talking to them and having my week deposited against my wishes. So just haven't answered that number. Funny thing is, I think they want the good week that I no longer own. It is still showing in my account even though I sold it about 18 months ago.
 
My call was from RCI (area code 317, i think it is in Indiana). It was a legit representative.
 
jesuis1837 said:
My call was from RCI (area code 317, i think it is in Indiana). It was a legit representative.
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Yes 317 is their local area code for Indianpolis.
 
506 area code is... Canada: New Brunswick
 
I've gotten RCI calls from both Indiana and New Brunswick in Canada. I couldn't figure out who was calling me from New Brunswick (it was showing up on my caller ID record) and then when I finally answered, it was RCI.
 
"RCI wants my deposit: badly"

Reminds me of the old girlfriends quip, "He said he wanted to love me badly, And he did."
 
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RCI has been calling me all week also. I finally decided to answer yesterday. They asked me if I was going to deposit my weeks. Told them I didn't know what my plans were yet. Rep. didn't press nor offer an Extra Vacation.
 
This is nothing more than SOP for RCI. They call frequently. They don't usually offer additional weeks etc but it is their way of getting in more deposits.
 
RCI has call centers in Indianapolis and New Brunswick. They have outbound agents who call customers soliciting deposits and renewels of membership (if applicable). They do it because it generates more deposits and renewals for them. The weeks you own do not determine whether or not you get called; the closer your membership is to expirring the more likely you are to get a call.

The extra week thing often has to do with the resort you own.
 
My Favorite RCI Fantasy

No one is depositing prime weeks with RCI anymore. We are all useing our weeks or making money renting them ourselves. They beg and beg but it does no good. The company folds and their exchange funktions are taken over by TUG. We all live hapily ever after.
 
I'm giving them one more chance with a top trader VRi that I usually give to SFX and I'll deposit my week 27 Welk with SFX. I thought maybe the VRI advantage would help and I don't have anything to play with online. I thought I'd overcome that addiction, but it's creeping in again.
Liz
 
I always ask them to tell me what weeks they will give me in exchange for it when they call....Throws them for a loop.

What's the sense in depositing with RCI anyway? Might as well throw your week away.
 
Yeah, after reading this thread I called and got my week back (I need to check RCI and see if that was actually done) as it wasn't even confirmed yet. I really do like the online feature and I like the more advance planning with RCI when you don't often have to wait as long as SFX, which I use a lot. So, I'm giving it some more thought. What was really influencing me though was SFX bonus week. Even at $399 with $20 off for platinum membership, it's a good deal.
Liz
 
Same here, the more i read it the more i am less tempted to deposit my 2008 with them.... leaning strongly to SFX now... When i see so many Tuggers telling me my good deposit week (high demand) will be taken for renting while i will get nothing for it.... :( :annoyed: Sure they dont tell us that when you subscribe with them in buying at your resort.... They keep showing you the catalogue and tell you how easy you can go anyhwhere in the world with RCI... :doh: If i had not known your forum, i would have probably continue to deposit every year and wonder why i have not receive anything in return...
 
Maybe they should offer to give us an exchange at a place we want to go for depositing our weeks.

Suzanne
 
suzanne said:
Maybe they should offer to give us an exchange at a place we want to go for depositing our weeks.

Suzanne
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Actually offering you a decent exchange for depositing? What a brilliant idea for a timeshare exchange company!!!

Actually, DAE already does this...
 
II clearly has the edge here, with the request first option.
 
Reading all this stuff about RCI just makes me that much happier that all but one of my units is with I.I. and that one is a HGVC week. It's bad enough to have telemarketers calling asking if I want to sell or rent my week let alone an exchange company calling to ask me to deposit my week. If I want to deposit my week I'll do so when I choose to do it. If I want to use it I don't need some rep trying to play Let's-make-a-deal to get me to turn loose of the vacation I had planned.

Granted I.I. will send me stuff in the mail with offeres of an AC but at least they're not calling and bugging me at home.
 
I would say they have increased demand or too many people sitting idle on the phone, my wife has gotten two daytime calls from RCI this week :doh: and I don't think we have received any kind of call from them in over a year prior:ignore:
 
mdmbdumont said:
I would say they have increased demand or too many people sitting idle on the phone, my wife has gotten two daytime calls from RCI this week :doh: and I don't think we have received any kind of call from them in over a year prior:ignore:
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Or maybe there a lot of people like us that have decided to stop giving RCI our valuable weeks.
 
melschey said:
Or maybe there a lot of people like us that have decided to stop giving RCI our valuable weeks.
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:clap: Either that....or do what I do....own crappy weeks, (week 5 in Williamsburg VA), and deposit away!!!!! ;)
 
Skinsfan1311 said:
:clap: Either that....or do what I do....own crappy weeks, (week 5 in Williamsburg VA), and deposit away!!!!! ;)
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But do you get any half decent exchanges for your crappy weeks?
 
I matched a 3 br Christmas in Hilton Head at Waterside Spinnaker with one of my crappy weeks.
 
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