Let me first explain who we are. We’re a bunch of timeshare owners that put our time and money (yikes), and sweat into building a destination for timeshare owner community and timeshare exchange.
 

What’s the purpose of the site?

To gather all the owners on the Web from all the 5,000 resorts around the world and build an online community to exchange timeshares and help each other maximize our vacation ownership.

We designed it based on what we wanted as timeshare owners. Then we took input from other timeshare owners we knew and those we connected with online. We’ve done a lot of this informally already; we’ve exchanged units with friends and “friends of friends” for vacations around the world; we’ve also talked to other owners to find out what resorts are great and which ones are not. Now its time to do this on a large scale using the Internet.

The first thing we wanted to do was stop paying all that money to RCI and Interval for exchanges and membership fees. We don’t really feel like we need someone to broker these trades; we feel like we can absolutely do this by ourselves, owner to owner. I mean eBay connects people all over the world selling every item known to man and then some. We can certainly exchange vacations within the community.

How would you rate your experience with RCI or Interval International?

The second thing was we wanted a social network about just vacations and timeshare. We thought that if the entire timeshare community (about 7 millions owners worldwide – wow) shared tips and knowledge about timeshares that would be incredible. We figured the power and energy of everyone coming together would be better than anything out there right now for timeshare on the web or not. By giving a voice to each owner and the collective community to rate resorts and activities, we would all know what resorts were the best to vacation at, what activities and day-trips were the best to do, the best sites to visit etc etc.  All the content on the site will be supplied by timeshare owners themselves.

A lot of the reviews out there right now are paid for by resorts. I think that if the reviews and ratings were supplied directly by owners the best resorts with the best service would get more visitors; all the others would have to raise their standards for service. It’s that simple. This holds true for everything about the timeshare industry; from maintenance fees (don’t get me started on that) to exchange fees, cleanliness of units, resort fees etc. We could open up the lines of communication for the entire industry.

What challenges are you having with your resort?

Our team spent a lot of time together writing down what we as timeshare owners would want in a social network. Then we spent a lot of time organizing so it was easy and simple to use. I hope you like what we are creating and I hope you take the time to have your voice heard as well.