So, why the big price discrepancy with timeshare credits? Before I answer that, let me make a few statements about Best Timeshare. We have been in business over 20 years, completing nearly 2,500 Worldmark account transfers without a single complaint.

So why the price discrepancy between the developer and a resale broker? Here you go:

• Like Econ 101, it comes down to simple supply and demand. Resale brokers try to sell accounts as high as possible both for the seller of Wordmark and the industry as a whole. Why would we want to see the price continue to decline? Even so, supply and demand is the driving force and price settles where there is some form of equilibrium between supply and demand. As an example, it doesn’t do me any good to lower my prices and sell everything if I can’t replace it and have something to sell tomorrow. I cannot raise the price so high that nothing sells. Eventually we find that spot and it works until something moves the market to the next level.
• Why does the developer price start so high? If you look at their year-end financial statements that are made public to the owners you will see the following: each dollar collected is spent in 3 ways – 1) 50% goes to marketing/advertising/sales, 2) 25% is allocated to the purchase of land and the building of resorts, and 3) 25% is allocated to management and profit. This is the Timeshare Industry. Notice that they spend twice as much on convincing the public to buy as they do to actually build the resorts! Hard to believe but it is true.
• So, when this product hits the aftermarket, for whatever reason, the value of the Timeshare account seems to settle closer to the actual cost of the property itself. It ebbs and flows for various reasons but seems to be most stable around 25% of the developer price. Dues can move this % to zero if they get out of hand. (See my BLOG about Maintenance Dues)

So, if you are currently a Worldmark timeshare owner, and you need more Worldmark credits, buying them from another Worldmark Owner is, without question, the best deal possible. There is no downside to doing this despite the constant effort by the sales team to create one.

Some things are too good to be true, but not this time!

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Before Trendwest sold to Wyndham, they used Interval International (www.intervalworld.com) as their main exchange company.  Both are fantastic companies to help you maximize your Worldmark timeshare.

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Here are a few thoughts and answers that I can offer. The first one has to do with Owner Advocacy. Have you been to WMowners.com? This is an uncensored website with 300,000 posts with 15,000 to 20,000 subscribers behind it. The folks who started the site, and others, have been very serious about protecting the future of Worldmark. I do not believe any other Timeshare group or Club has anything in place that would come close in comparison. This is a big, big plus for the future of Worldmark.

Second, the maintenance fees at Worldmark are still today one of the lowest in the industry making the owners travel investment pencil out in the black, year after year. Other timeshare companies have high enough maintenance fees that they have lost their vacation value, except for those who have the best weeks at the resort.

In a nutshell, here is the big problem with runaway maintenance fees. If you own a fixed week, but no longer want to return to the same resort and perhaps to the same room, then you need to use an exchange company to try to trade your week for another one someplace else. If your dues, when combined with the yearly membership fee of the exchange company and the exchange fee, equal the price of renting in the open market, then why own your Timeshare? These are the timeshares that are stacking up on eBay and other sites, that owners are so desperate to sell. These timeshares have NO value. The timeshare owners are also the ones that continue to fall prey to the scam artist who tell them their timeshare actually has value, so they get excited and hand them $1,000 or more in anticipation of getting rid of their worthless week. I have people who have paid 2 or 3 companies, because they believed their week had value.

So, how does this relate to the future of Worldmark? When the dues head towards being unbalanced and erode the actual vacation value, it will be time to seriously consider selling. Hopefully, that’s not going to happen!

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My advice while you are on vacation is to stay out of any timeshare sales office, unless you are one of the few who are not bothered by the high pressure and you actually enjoy the game. Timeshare sellers are masters at making you feel like you are missing out if you don’t purchase today and many spend their vacation struggling over the decision to buy. Remember, you can purchase an additional account from another Worldmark member for less than .30 cents per credit and combine it with your current account. There is nothing in Travel Share that makes it worth $3.70+ per credit, in our opinion.

Enjoy your entire vacation and stay away from the offer to “come hear about all the new updates.”

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