Tossing TPU darts in the back rooms of RCI --- perhaps while blindfolded?
<snip>The points above about TPU values changing is true - nothing with RCI is written in stone.
True words --- and determination of TPU's might even involve the occasional use of a dartboard at RCI, for all anyone here (or anywhere else) really knows.
We don't exchange at all any more and likely won't be doing so again in the future, so I believe that I can be entirely objective in discussing our own TPU valuations.
On unpredictable occasion when the RCI web site has actually been functional, I have looked up TPU's for our ownerships (we still have a year or two left on a multi-year RCI membership from prior years, so this is still possible to do, at least for now). I was admittedly quite befuddled by some of the TPU assignments I found.
A small 1BR unit at one SW FL place, just one Snowbird week different from a much nicer place with a larger unit right down the road where we own other weeks, has considerably
higher TPU than the nicer place with the larger unit. This puzzled me; both places are filled to capacity throughout Snowbird season, so it's certainly not "demand" related and the larger place commands considerably higher rents (when rentals are even available there at all) and yet it somehow has
lower TPU valuation.
Lowest TPU of all is a late summer week at a great, waterfront facility in mid-Coast Maine. However, in that one instance I think I know the reason --- no stove (dishwasher instead) beneath the multi-burner stovetop somehow translates to it being only a "partial kitchen" on Planet RCI, hence a reduced TPU valuation.
None of this matters to us in any case, since we now just use what we own and don't "exchange" at all anymore anyhow.
Nonetheless, I'm sticking with the "blindfolded dart toss" theory of TPU value determinations at / by RCI.
