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Re: Are timeshare developers deliberately hampering the resale market? (by Tracey S.):
Disney is actually rather late with their restrictions. Almost all of the developers (who have property or points product in active sales) place restrictions on resales. None that I know of allow resale to count toward elite perks (some allow it with another qualified developer purchase but this requires and addition purchase usually in the $20,000 range). About half restrict resales from conversion to hotel points. Some (like DRI and Westgate) do everything they can to restrict almost every aspect of usage with resale weeks. DRI resale points in 80% of their collections can't even be used with an external exchange company. Westgate allows retail float week owners to reserve weeks during float period months before resale owners can reserve. They also charge more for resale owners to use their internal exchange and to do things like banking weeks.
So yes the answer is developers are deliberately hampering resale market because they would rather you purchase at full freight than to pay 60-100% less buying resale.