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Who has exchanged a week with Redweek?

BocaBum99

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Yes, I did, but everyone is busy with their microeconomics 101 tutorial. I am trying to grab another week in SFO from Redweek, so no time to join the discussion. I will get an F from the prof.

Yours is the exchange that I was referring to when I said that we have only 1 report of an exchange. We have a handful of reports of deposits and dozens of reports of inquiries.

Given that fact, I'd say that the RW exchange program isn't doing very well yet. It's hard to imagine that early adopters of a RW type exchange service would be anything other than tuggers.

If after 2 months, we don't have a significant increase in reported exchanges, I wouldn't touch that exchange system with a 10 foot poll. I'd rather re-upp with RCI for 30 more years. This is especially in light of their recent email blast. One theory for success for RW was that their 1M registered users would be very helpful to stimulate a market for exchanging. If that proves to be a bad assumption, they really don't have much going for them.

This does not suggest doom for the service, though. Good entrepreneurs are very good at changing direction midstream when current strategies don't work.

Redweek needs to get free developer or HOA deposits in the US Market. Or, they need to allow their technology to be used by someone who does have the inventory. That is the key strategic problem that faces them at this point in time. My vote would be for a partner program with HOAs to offer free rental and resale listings for their members in exchange for an affiliation agreement. That would be hot. Maybe I should patent a business process or apparatus for that idea so that I can get a cut when they eventually do it.

Otherwise, they will just become the bidshares of timeshare exchange companies.
 
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BocaBum99

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Yes, I did, but everyone is busy with their microeconomics 101 tutorial. I am trying to grab another week in SFO from Redweek, so no time to join the discussion. I will get an F from the prof.

If you spend most of your points and get what you want, you get at least a passing grade. I'd give you at least a "B". I give you an "A+" for your eBay purchase.

To get an "A" for exchange, you must grab an extraordinarily hard to get exchange like a Harbourside Atlantis for winter or get a great exchange location and resort unit for around $300-400 or less of total cost including exchange fees.
 

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Yes, I did, but everyone is busy with their microeconomics 101 tutorial. I am trying to grab another week in SFO from Redweek, so no time to join the discussion. I will get an F from the prof.


It seems your about the only one so far to state you did take a trade! Many tuggers have helped out by making deposit of a second unit they own and many have checked their points but that is about it!

I think most people are trying to help Redweek with their program by making a deposit. People like myself belong to II and can do much better in fair trading with II.

I did get my points offer and decided after seeing nothing we would want we would trade with II for Maui 2008! I know RW can not do that for my family! Maybe someday but not right now! :hysterical:

I see that much of their resorts are international right now and I have no idea of the ratings of any of those units. I see there are 79 US resorts listed and 270 International ones listed. Don't know if that is good or bad since we are not interested in going out of the country any time soon!

People that travel alot out of the US would know more but to me it seems many International owners jumped on the chance to dump their resorts into the RW pool! :whoopie:
 
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