Exchange Points Club EPC 844-385-0276

[StapelmanMO]

Does anyone have any experience with this outfit? Are they just another timeshare scam?

There website appears legitimate, offering the RCI Club Elite Program, Wyndham Travel Points Club Member and other benefits. However, what they have stated is too good to be true.

Reps suggested that I could recover full maintenance fees on any Wyndham Points I give them to deposit with RCI for them to offer exchange vacations. They also suggested I could give them the equivalent of 8 weeks to reserve a studio from our Wyndham program and recoup
a mere $1,400 week with only a $99 transaction fee.

They also claim I should have been assigned a counselor to assist us, but they could not find one, after checking with their IT Manager it turned out we missed a RCI presentation explaining the program four years ago.

They have let it slip that my RCI affiliation with Wyndham, Worldmark, and Holiday Inn Vacation Club was insufficient and that likely had to join another RCI program. Yet there website does not suggest they are part of RCI.

I came across them because I was trying figure out what to do with some expiring RCI points and followed up a voice mail we received some time ago.

Should I run or deal?

 

[tschwa2]

Rci does not allow you or anyone else to rent out any exchange or any other getaway that you obtain through RCI. Any group that claims to help you market or rent out those weeks are a scam. They make money by convincing owners to pay marketing or transaction fees. Or in this case it sounds like they may try to make you sign up for some type of vacation club. They do not actually try to rent out your week or do anything that will result in you being paid anything from them.

Your options as regards to your rci deposited points are to pay the exchange fee to RCI and either use the week yourself or obtain a guest certificate and let a family or friend use the exchange. Your other option is to pay RCI nothing and let the points expire. You can call rci and see if you are eligible to use any kind of points partners for hotel, plane, theme park tickets or car rental. Their will be a per ticket or per reservation fee and the value vs the cost of the MF's is likely not good but it might be worth it if the only other alternative is to let the points expire and you get nothing in return. Again you need to call RCI directly not a third party company.