posted 02-10-2005 12:39               

....but lot's of TUGGERS have asked in the past where they can get one of these. I just saw it posted at RPMI via email:

(personally, I think it's about $6,000 more than the basic credits are worth.....that pays for a lot of $50 cleanings)

Just FYI,
Hat

posted 02-10-2005 17:46            

Bid to 1.18 a point with 20 days to go

posted 02-10-2005 19:04               

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Originally posted by dcwcce:
I am sure this thread will get closed but here's another one:

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I'm not sure why you think this thread will be closed. TUG has no rules against pointing others toward perceived good deals as long as the poster has nothing to gain.

Phil

posted 02-13-2005 08:02               

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Originally posted by lesleys4:
If I combined ths with my existing 6000 point account, would I get free houskeeping for the combined account?

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posted 02-13-2005 08:19               

quote:

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Originally posted by lesleys4:
If I combined ths with my existing 6000 point account, would I get free houskeeping for the combined account?

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posted 02-13-2005 12:11               

Take the sale from Jeff Fudge:
15,000 credits at $1.25 each = $18,750.
30,000 credits came with the account, to me a “fully loaded account” would have 15,000 so sell 15,000 at 4 cents each = $600.

Cost to buy the account was $18,750 - $600 = $18,150 plus closing costs.

A normal 15,000 credit “fully loaded account” is 80 cents each = $12,000.

The lucky owner paid $6,150 more than resale.

At $50 a cleaning that means he will break even in 123 extra visits to WM.

If you did one WM stay per month = 12 per year = 10 years to payback the extra money.

Now if our new owner is a WM fanatic like some of you I know (I won’t mention a fly boy I know) I guess payback would be just a few years.

To me the price seemed too high.

I have a question for WM aficionados: do TW Trade Points qualify for NH if your primary WM account is NH? I’m guessing no.

Perry

posted 02-14-2005 00:09               

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Originally posted by PerryM:

do TW Trade Points qualify for NH if your primary WM account is NH? I’m guessing no.

Perry

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Trade points (via the exchange plus program) come with one free no housekeeping. I'm not sure if Fractionals converted to trade points get a free housekeeping (I would think so). However, I believe any reservation made by a WM NH account would not be charged a housekeeping fee, so I guess the answer would be yes.

Teddy

posted 02-14-2005 22:23               

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Originally posted by PerryM:
Now if our new owner is a WM fanatic like some of you I know (I won’t mention a fly boy I know) I guess payback would be just a few years.

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I am amazed that the no-h accounts keep getting more and more expensive. Mine was nowhere near these levels!!! I know that people before me just paid the normal resale price.

I think I recouped about 1/2 of my no-h account premium when they reimbursed me for the housekeeping fees that I already paid for my upcoming reservations!

/Jim

posted 02-15-2005 03:32               

You would think that TW/WM would buy these accounts when they pop up in the resale market. If there ever was a reason for TW to buy back some of their credits, the NH accounts is it.

Perry

posted 02-15-2005 10:44               

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Originally posted by PerryM:
Hey, if the aileron fits…

You would think that TW/WM would buy these accounts when they pop up in the resale market. If there ever was a reason for TW to buy back some of their credits, the NH accounts is it.

Perry

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I will reiterate, that my non-H WM Account is for sale for $1.25/credit......it comes w/ 300,000 annual credits...please let me know it anyones' interested (just give me a couple weeks to get my ducks in a row).

Hat

posted 02-15-2005 13:16               

Only 300,000 credits? Can you increase that?

Perry

posted 02-15-2005 13:20               

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Originally posted by PerryM:
Hat,

Only 300,000 credits? Can you increase that?

Perry

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posted 02-16-2005 00:48               

I'd be willing to lowball you, and sell it for $1.24/credit with a million annual credits

/Jim

posted 02-17-2005 09:07               

I own no HK and also get trade credits every year..I never pay hk fees on anything...Not even the trade points. I dont think it makes sense to spend big buck for no hk credits unless you are a heavy user...I paid around 25 cents a point for a no hk 8000 credit membership so I didnt have to worry much about the math Maz

posted 02-17-2005 09:33               

Maz, please, please don't mention that any more!?!?!

(by the way, are you sure you really own a permanent WM membership...maybe you just really got a one-time usage of a rental week?)

Also, when you pay your $129 Exchange Plus fee per week to get those WM Trade Credits...that fee includes one 'free' housekeeping....you're not benefitting from it....you're losing $$$

posted 02-17-2005 09:34               

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Originally posted by Maz:
... so I didnt have to worry much about the math

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posted 02-17-2005 12:27               

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Originally posted by Hatrack79:
Also, when you pay your $129 Exchange Plus fee per week to get those WM Trade Credits...that fee includes one 'free' housekeeping....you're not benefitting from it....you're losing $$$

a jealous Hatrack

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for every exchange with II by using WM credits, there is an additional house-keeping fee which will be billed by WM if the credits were deducted from a non non-house-keeping-fee account.

It happend to me :-(
So, $45-55 will be saved from every exchange if exchange is made with a non-house-keeping-fee.

posted 02-17-2005 21:46               

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Originally posted by Hatrack79:
Will the moderator of this board please repremand MAZ one more time....he shouldn't be allowed to constantly 'rub it in' and brag about his 25 cents purchase like this. It's painful for the rest of us!

Maz, please, please don't mention that any more!?!?!

(by the way, are you sure you really own a permanent WM membership...maybe you just really got a one-time usage of a rental week?)

Also, when you pay your $129 Exchange Plus fee per week to get those WM Trade Credits...that fee includes one 'free' housekeeping....you're not benefitting from it....you're losing $$$

a jealous Hatrack

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Sorry Hat!! lol....I forgot....I promise to only mention it a few more times this year ..

Hat, I didnt understand what you meant when you said I was paying a $129 exchange fee...For what? II exchanges? I dont pay anything for Worldmark vacations and the fee to turn a week into trade credits is only $35...Also, I have used my trade points for lots of traveling within the worldmark system and have never been charged a HK fee....Clarify please Maz

posted 02-18-2005 15:02               

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Originally posted by PerryM:
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I have a question for WM aficionados: do TW Trade Points qualify for NH if your primary WM account is NH? I’m guessing no.

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posted 02-18-2005 15:41               

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Originally posted by Maz:
Sorry Hat!! lol....I forgot....I promise to only mention it a few more times this year ..

Hat, I didnt understand what you meant when you said I was paying a $129 exchange fee...For what? II exchanges? I dont pay anything for Worldmark vacations and the fee to turn a week into trade credits is only $35...Also, I have used my trade points for lots of traveling within the worldmark system and have never been charged a HK fee....Clarify please Maz

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Sorry, Maz...all you're paying is your $35 fee (you must be getting points off a WM 'sister resort' like a conventional TS at DepoeBay or Schooner Landing.). If you weren't a non-H, I believe you'd see that your $35 fee would get you one "free" housekeeping for each week exchanged. For those giving other GC/RID/5star weeks at $129 fee, they too get a housekeeping included. (I was just commenting that your non-H status isn't getting you a break on the $35/$129 fee (even though a portion of that fee is for HK).