Orange Lake Properties And RCI Your $14,000 time share is now worthless Orlando Florida

I purchased a 2 bedroom, one week time share at Orange Lake in 2004 for $14,000.00 which I was told was ALWAYS A RED WEEK. I then joined the RCI group inorder to be able to exchange my week for other travel locations.
I have just arrived at my 'home' location for a week's stay and was invited to an 'owner's update' 'meeting' while I was here. I was promised that it was not a hard sell and just an informative meeting about the upgrades and new things at the resort.

When I arrived and was greeted by my 'associate' I knew there was going to be a sales pitch.

I was told how smart I was to buy when I did because today a 2 bedroom at this resort sells for $36,000 today!

Then I was asked about my travel style which is to primarily use my timeshare to exchange and that I was currently waiting for an exchange to Hawaii. My associated then announced that I will never get that exchange because sneaky RCI assigns a POINTS VALUE to my property and that points value is only 24,500 points because I bought a BLUE week (what happened to everything here is a RED week??) and it would take 81,000 points to exchange into an equitable Hawaii property. But lucky me, Orange Lake is changing to a points system instead of a weeks system, and if I "upgrade" by buying ANOTHER week, or TRADE UP my week by spending more money, I get the privelage of moving to a points value. Buying an additional week in a 2 bedroom today will give me 150,000 points!! No one could explain to me why what I currently own does not have the same "points" value or why I have to "buy into" their points program. It was further explained to me that after I made such an investment, my 150,000 points would only equate to 75,000 points with RCI so I could BUY more point.

This whole points issue is just a bunch of crap to hard sell by telling people that all resorts will eventually be on a points systems and at that point, my only option will be to stay at the resort I bought at on the week I bought at. So, the only reason I bought a time share in the first place becomes a worthless waste of money.

I was so mad at that point, the sales rep got her manager, who continued to try to hard sell me. they finally got the message that I wasn't buying, but brought in a 3rd person to give me the "best deal" of paying just $4000 to buy into this B.S. points sytem.

AT this point I just want to dump the whole time share property and pay as I go for my vacations, but because Orange Lake is now only selling points, no one even want's my week.

I HATE Orange Lake and think the whole thing is just a scam because they can't build anymore properties so they have to make money by gouging the people who already bought their pack of lies in the first place.

Nancy
virginia beach, Virginia
U.S.A.