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Re: REDWEEKS NEW TIMESHARE EXHANGE PROGRAM (by Phil L.):

I think Gold Crown is RCI !

The Ridge Tahoe Resort are with II and this resort is listed as 5 Star resort! Of coarse now II is getting rid of the 5 Star ratings and we have to wait to see how they list their resorts now!

There are still a few owners of the Naegles that belong to Rci but not many. Years ago when the Naegles were opened the exchange worked with both II and Rci. Few years later they built the Tower building which was only with II and the resort to this day are with II. The Ridge Tahoe is II only now with small exception of these few owners of the Naegle buildings.

I'm sure of your point(one of your little digs to me) and yes the Ridge Tahoe is very nice resort and is second tier compared to Marriotts and Westins, Four Seasons,Disney because the big companies are the top of the line timeshare resorts for many reasons. But at least we own a timeshare and that is more than you can say on here!

As nice as our resort is we could probably never get a two bedroom trade in Westin in Maui. There are not to many resorts we can not trade into on a two bedroom for two bedroom unit!

We are already traded into Maui for 2008 so our trade works very well but as you stated our resort is not top tier resorts!

We were thinking of buying the new unit at the Westin in 2008 while there and looking at the $50,000 and up we decided to buy Tower at the Ridge Tahoe as second unit so we can trade every other year if we want.

In 2008 we will be in Maui for our vacation and had no trouble getting our choice of resorts there!

Everyone is different in taste and money they can afford to spend on a timeshare. I stick to my opinion that the owners of these high priced resorts are not looking to trade down,everyone with lower resorts like to trade up including us and in most cases this can not be done!

This would be like buying into Disney and then trading down to Blue Tree resort in Orlando,just doesn't make sense!Spend $25,000 to buy Disney and I have seen Blue Tree selling for $1000.00. Owners are not doing this.

Last minute units can be found some times if your lucky trading a lower rated resort to higher rated resorts.

This is just my opinion and even on Redweek I think I'm intitled to have one.{IMHO} I stick with my opinion that most owners do not spend big bucks to buy good resort and trade down!

Owners buy cheap and try and trade up and this really is just common sense!