Attitudes towards Timeshare Exchange Organisations By People Trying to Resell their Timeshare

1999-2001 Survey Results*

Section 1
Basic Facts

Q1 How long have you been trying to sell your timeshare?
Base	No reply	Not Selling	Up to 1 week	Up to 1 month	Up to 3 months	Up to 6 months	Up to 1 year	up to 2 years	up to 3 years	more than 3 years
192	3	18	49	7	14	16	31	23	13	19
	1.6%	9.4%	25.5%	3.6%	7.3%	8.3%	16.1%	12.0%	6.8%	9.9%

Q2 Have you ever tried to sell via the internet?
Base	No reply	Yes	No
192	73	36	83
	38.0%	18.8%	43.2%

Q3 Have you ever paid an agent to try to sell your timeshare?
Base	No reply	Yes	No
192	53	87	52
	27.6%	45.3%	27.1%

Q4 Have you ever been a member of RCI?
Base	No reply*	Yes	No
192	15	151	26
	7.8%	78.6%	13.5%

Q5 Have you ever been a member of Interval International
Base	No reply*	Yes	No
192	67	54	71
	34.9%	28.1%	37.0%

*You should safely assume that most "No replies" in Q4 and Q5 are the same as "No" – The questionnaire was amended half way through to allow responders to check a box if the answer was"Yes". The assumption being made that if the box was not checked, then the answer was"NO". On reflection this was a bad policy statistically.

Q5a Analysis of RCI and II membership

		Base	Missing	Interval International member
			No reply	Yes	No
Base		192	67	54	71
			34.9%	28.1%	37.0%
Missing	No reply	15	3	12	-
			20.0%	80.0%	-
RCI member?	Yes	151	64	23	64
			42.4%	15.2%	42.4%
	No	26	-	19	7
			-	73.1%	26.9%

Q6 Do you regard Exchange organisation fees as high, okay, or low?
Base	No reply	High	Okay	Low	Other response
192	7	87	95	1	2
	3.6%	45.3%	49.5%	0.5%	1.0%

Q7 Do you regard maintenance charges as
Base	No reply	High	Okay	Low
192	6	116	70	-
100.0%	3.1%	60.4%	36.5%	-

Q8 What do you think of the general idea of timeshare?
Base	No reply	Excellent	Good	Fair	Not a lot
192	2	24	87	36	43
100.0%	1.0%	12.5%	45.3%	18.8%	22.4%

1999-2001 Survey Results*

Section 1 Basic Facts

Section 1
Basic Facts