RCIReviews of rci.com

What a scam. I met with the RCI rep at our timeshare at Massanutten Resort last week to learn about RCI and the places we could go, by trading our timeshare week. Then I talked to an RCI phone agent . Here’s what I learned: 1. My timeshare has a trading value/number, assigned by RCI, based on my timeshare location, time of year, size, etc. 2. You can’t go into the RCI website to get your trading value number or even explore your trading value to see where you can go until you pay $99 to join RCI. So, you have to join blindly to even see if joining will be beneficial to you or not. So, I joined since our timeshare company had a special going on to join RCI. 2. Once you join RCI, you still can’t explore the value of your trade to see where you can go until you “deposit” your timeshare week. Once you deposit your week, you lose your time at your resort and can’t get it back. So, once again RCI expects you to act blindly by depositing and losing your week at your timeshare, just to be able to see if you can trade for somewhere you may want to go. 3. By talking to the RCI rep I learned that my timeshare trading value was so low at Massanutten that I would have to trade my timeshare for multiple years just to be able to go to one decent resort in places we may want to visit. So, now RCI has my membership money and now demands that I give up/trade in my timeshare week just to likely learn that there’s no desirable place that I can trade for, given the poor trading value of my unit at Massanutten. What a scam! If RCI was legitimate, they would allow someone to see their trading value and potential trades BEFORE taking someone’s membership money, or at least allow a paid member to PREVIEW their potential trades at other resorts without having to deposit and completely lose their own timeshare week! The icing on the cake…when I asked for a full and total refund, the RCI rep said that membership fee refunds are prorated!! I’ll be contacting the Consumer Protection Division in NJ where RCI is headquartered and the CPD in Va where Massanutten is located, to report RCI’s scam.

RCI is a despicable company that is part of Wyndham group that pressure and con people into buying timeshare. To make matters worse for poor timeshare owners Wyndham have bought DAE another timeshare exchange company so it’s nearly impossible to get away from them. Because Wyndham own a lot of the properties they manipulate and tightly control the diminishing number of exchange properties available, but they have several of their own properties available at a cost (not exchange). I have 4 timeshare properties the first two I bought circa 1990 and the next two a few years later for a lot less about $2,000 each direct from the resort. NOTE - don’t buy timeshare from Wyndham (about $AUD20,000-25,000) as you can usually get timeshare property on the second hand market for between $0-900. I am trying to give my timeshare away for free and I can’t. There is a company that will take it off my hands if I pay them $4,000. Unfortunately there are probably millions of timeshares owners in my predicament. Until Wyndham took over our family had numerous wonderful holidays through RCI in Australia and abroad, booking a year in advance. There were numerous properties to select from. Now I search in Australia they only have a few exchange properties available for exchange and a lot of Wyndham properties which you have to pay for. Also usually the only properties available are all within 6 months. Trustpilot reviews of RCI - 90% of people gave them a rating of 1 the lowest score available. Personally I would not take a timeshare for free. If you are going to the same resort all the time maybe consider buying or trying to get it for free. Don’t forget there is a maintenance fee between $AUD500-900 per year, less in USD, also if you are lucky enough to find an exchange holiday at a different resort than you own RCI charges a fee of around $AUD189. I don’t know why authorities don’t do something about this and investigate how they sell timeshare properties to unsuspecting good people and the way RCI control the timeshare exchange. At the price to buy, plus the maintenance and exchange fee and the low price when selling, timeshare I believe doesn’t add up. RJ

Surprise! The property we booked in Italy has a mandatory breakfast fee, $40.00 per person We are booked here for 2 weeks 😳 That’s in combination with the value of our trade and exchange fee make this trade significantly higher than I can book directly. I have been a member for many years, but am done with RCI I’ll just use my weeks at my property and book online for vacations Too bad, it was a good concept originally, but out dated and top heavy now

En Panama fuimos estafados la mayoría de consumidores por esta empresa que nunca a dado la cara

Buenas noches, quien a comprado una membresía de Club sunset marina, yo compre una y pago por mes, compre 5 semanas que se venden al mismo hotel pero al final no se ni que es lo que compre, cuando quiero reservar sale carisimo.

Hotels are supposedly listed at an "exclusive member discount" but are actually higher than market price. When I reached out to them, they said since they specialize in deposited weeks, timeshares are the best deals... but I have no deposited weeks and they never explained what they were when we signed up. The properties that you can pay cash for look horrible and are not places we would stay if we didn't have RCI. So far we've had it for almost a year and haven't used it. They sell you a lemon and act like it's super easy to book the $699/week vacations wherever you want. But they'll spam call you multiple time a day to get you to sign up for more stuff you won't be able to use. Save your money and sanity.

Just found out the RCI booking fee is now $420 Canadian This is SCANDALOUS!! And it is non-refundable after 24 hours. Another $129 to protect your points but not your money!! The last time I found a place to book (which can be very difficult) the cost was approx $320 and there was an insurance option which I believe was $180 (also expensive). People are trying to get out of their timeshares because of the unreasonably high costs but you can't even give them away these days...

Lo peor ! Que triste pagar tanto para que no haya recompensa