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Originally Posted by djyamyam
When a resort becomes points affiliated, RCI does an audit of the resort and assigns a point value for each week of the year based on whatever formula they use (I guess I could ask our mgmt company what that is). This becomes fixed for the life? of the master points contract? So from an accounting standpoint, the total points redeemed for exchanges have to equal what was originally allocated to that resort. If RCI allowed an exchange for less than the pre-agreed points amount, they'd be in violation and "owe" the resort.
I'm not sure if my explanation is correct but that's my non-educated guess
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Gord, Your explanation sounds valid. Since that is all we have I'll accept it as gospel for now.
I have been wondering why the reverse would not be true. Why ALL inventory didn't show up in the 45 (or 14) day window for any exchanger to grab via points or weeks no matter where the interval came from. The non-flexible point "contract" would explain that little nut as well.
I imagine that most if not all the pure points inventory, once it gets to this point, goes empty then as there is no carrot offered to use it.
Thanks to you both I will sleep just a little better.
Ps I will add this to my littlefile of "sometimes points isn't the best thing since sliced bread". There aren't many items on that list but there are certainly a handful.
