I just want to say to Miss Marty. Thank You, for all your threads and posts.
Surely you remember "Madge" -----Another one I miss is Bootleg, an RCI employee who gave us lots of straight scoop on the inner workings of the RCI system. Unfortunately, it appeared RCI identified him and he quit posting. Bootleg also disappeared from Timeshare Foums and TimeshareTalk, a UK-based timeshare site, where I was also a moderator, at the same time. TimeshareTalk also had another RCI insider, this one from the UK RCI office, and before the site owner let him identify himself as an RCI employee, he vetted him by asking a series of questions about his own RCI account which only someone with access to the RCI computers could answer, and this guy got them all right, so he checked out as the real deal. Both of them were active at the time RCI Points was rolled out and when RCI got into the rental business to non-timeshare owners, and I am sure the RCI management did not like some of the info they were sharing, especially about RCI renting out exchange deposits to the general public on a significant scale.
I wonder if Bootleg is still with RCI. There were times that he would answer the RCI phone from someone he recognized as a Tugger and would make a comment like "it might rain, you may want ot put your boots on."
This post is truly a stroll down Tug's Memory Lane.More threads of this ilk:
Stroll down Tug Memory Lane
Just for gits and shiggles, I worked my way back on Tug to find what I think is my very first post here - from 2006, and more than 10,000 posts ago. Not sure it's the first, but probably among the very first posts I'd made, anyway. I read Tug for a long time before ever posting here, but it's...tugbbs.com
What ever happened to Fletch (2012)
Last time I heard he was with Marriot in there timeshare dept. I miss all the great information and help he provided to the group.tugbbs.com
Boiled Pizza!!
I found it! (Not the recipe, just the picture.) I feel so special. :) Davetugbbs.com
I concur...I've got a thing about not asking about people I haven't seen in a while - I didn't like some of the answers I got.
Not for everyone, at least not for us peon non mods. But you may also be able to look at their profile and see when their last post was. For @geekette , it was in November.If you click on someone's user name - a popup will tell you when they were last seen on TUG.
Interesting - I didn't know that. geekette was last here Nov. 24 and Panina was last here Feb. 2022.
I can see when someone was last here, unless they have such things turned off on their profile.
BTW, Panina hasn't replied to my Tug message to her three+ weeks ago. I checked to see if I had a phone or direct email for her, but I don't. I'm hoping someone who does can reach out to her.
Dave
Big expert on New Orleans. Good for answering questions.Then there was I think his name was Ron Parise? He was a big Wydham owner/renter. Always had good tips on how to rent out Wyndham.
I haven't seen him posting on TUG, but there have been recently videos posted to his YouTube channel. The last one on APril 30th. None are timeshare related. It looks like he is taking old photos, home movies and videos and editing them to post for long term legacy.