posted 12-13-2003 18:58               

1. I am concerned that the 4650 points would be subject to inflation and my points would not go as far in say 10 years time. If I stay with weeks, I know a week is a week.

2. I was told that the timeshare industry is moving in the direction of points and that in time there will be many less "weeks" resorts available to trade to if I stay with weeks.

3. I was told that being a member of SVC my points are deposited with SVC and the vacation cousellors there can search and access inventory in the RCI system if I wanted to go elsewhere than a Shell property - with no exchange fee. I have difficulty believing that RCI would not be wanting some form of compensation for access to their inventory.

posted 12-14-2003 16:48               

The details may differ slightly, but a shell point was worth about $0.25 (US) in travel services (hotels, airfare, etc) when booked thru shell at whatever prices they were charging at the time.

So your question is would the value of the travel services you would receive for 4650 points justify the $3995 buy-in cost, the annual maintenance fee (which doesn't go away) plus the value of your timeshare that you are signing over?

BTW, shell salesmen seem to lead the league in providing dubious information as part of their pitch.

Art

posted 07-09-2004 13:06               

We understood that our 2 bed lockoff, red, was indeed worth 4,650 SVC (shell vac points)but we would have to pay more than $3995???? to convert.

What confuses us is when we go to RCI website to view points based resorts that they have in their inventory, most locations were demanding 60000 - 80000 points.

Is there some conversion rate we are missing? We only would have 4650 SVC points -- this would take us 10 years to get to one location outside our owned resort.

We must need some conversion magic number. Anyone out there with this conversion code and a calculator?

Thanks
Gene

posted 07-09-2004 14:06               

You can buy Shell points on ebay for $0.80 to $1.00 per point, like the auction above, you can buy 6000 points for $6000 or less. You would be better off to buy the 6000 points and sell your weeks timeshare, and you would come out $$$ ahead, and shave more points to boot (plus the incredibly high maint fees associated with more points).

IF you do convert with Shell, the only benefit I know of is that they will let you deposit your NON-Shell weeks for Shell points, I am not sure of the conversion. If you buy resale, I don't believe that they give you this option.

As far as inflaction on weeks, they sell a limited number of points at every resort, so you will ALWAYS have enough points at your home resort. They COULD increase the cost in points during certain weeks, but they would have to decrease the points in other weeks by just as much, to keep the point levels equal. They could add NEW resorts that require more points though.