What's new on this website
You have more control
The former website was not automated, so you needed to contact the webmaster for
any changes to your own records.
On this site,
you have a private account, and you can login with your own username and
password, with the
ability to view, modify, update, or delete your own records at any time.
Your records are immediately available
Again, since the website is now automated, any new records you add to the
database, or any modifications and updates you make are immediately available.
No waiting for the webmaster to make changes for you.
This is true for all the databases on this site: the Exchange Database, the
Rental Database, the Resale Database, and the Points database, as well is your
own account information.
Your exchange search membership is for 12 months
Now your access to the exchange searches lasts for 12 months from the time you
pay the exchange search fee. On the old site, membership for each year lasted only until the end of the
year, so someone joining in June, for example, only had access for the last 6
months of the year. That limitation has been removed, so such a person now
would have access until the following June before needing to renew.
The resort seasons are correct
On the previous website, only the metallic "bronze", "silver", "gold", and
"platinum" season choices were available. So owners of resorts having other
season descriptors such as "sport" or "holiday" had to make an educated guess as
to which metallic season that would correspond to.
This new site uses the same season designations for each resort that Marriott
uses on their resort calendars, so there is no more guessing.
You can now separately list lockoff units
On the previous site, there was no way to indicate whether the unit you were
offering for exchange was a Lockoff, a Master Suite, or the Full Villa. And
consequently, if you were searching for an exchange it was not obvious what
configuration the listing you found was, so you had to inquire that information
from the lister.
This new site gives you the ability to separately list the configurations
"Full Villa", "Master Suite", or "Lockoff" for potential exchange. And it allows
for a complete description of each configuration.
The exchange search membership fee is $12 per year instead of $10
That fee has been $10 annually since we first created ownertrades.com 10 years
ago. Increasing to $12 per year to cover our increased costs seems quite
reasonable, especially compared to how much the Interval International fees have
increased over those years. Even so, doing an
exchange here is still free!
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