Timeshare Tuesday Recap Live! Week 37, 2026

And essentially, for those of you who haven't heard about it, Interval International is unveiling a brand new fee-based system for you to be able to modify or upgrade your exchanges.

And they're calling it UpTrade.

For lack of a better term, I don't know if it's going to stick with that moniker, but essentially, the gist of it is Interval has found a new way to make more exchange inventory available to owners and essentially by charging you more money for it.

The description that I heard or that I've read that most commonly describes this is interval told members that next month it is replacing the current unit size upgrade model with a broader uptrade system.

Instead of charging only when you exchange into a larger unit, interval says members will be able to access more inventory across different unit sizes, travel dates, destinations, and resorts by paying tiered upgrade fees or still exchange into a comparable week with no added fee.

So while Interval is calling it up trade fee, I think a more descriptive is going to be called pay more.

So if you're looking at what used to be just kind of a very, very simple, very simple fee that you would pay to upgrade your deposit to take into, they've always had, you know, values on individual and interval international deposits.

And RCI does the same thing.

And if you wanted to upgrade your exchange based on what you deposited to get something nicer in a better location, you paid a flat fee for it.

And so that system is now going to become a tiered system.

And the range of costs vary wildly from, I think, 99 bucks to go up one or two tiers to upwards of what? Three 99 or was it five 99? I'll have to go back and look up.

I'll click the link here in a second to, uh, to show you a super awesome chart that one of the tug members made.

Uh, you know, this, this is supposed to roll out next month.

So it's not live yet.

It's not anything anyone can go in and start tinkering around with, but, uh, uh, just got announced this week and there's already what? 12, 12 pages on tug, uh, analyzing it and, and digging into it from, from top to bottom.

You know, you're going to see this chart here in a second.

That's just, uh, the, the, creativity and the knowledge shared with the tug community just absolutely blows my mind that I can't wait to see October 1st when this actually gets rolled out and it's to see this, this investigation and how to best game the system and make the most of it.

Maybe games a poor word, but that tug members will come up with just, just has, has me chomping at the bit to see where this is going to go.

Hey, Claire, thanks for tuning in.

Thank you so much.

I appreciate you joining me on this Tuesday evening to talk about the four most interesting topics in all of time sharing.

We are started with topic one, and this is the new I upgrade feature.

You know, the short and curlies of it is that, you know, every every tier you're now going to go up.

This is based here going up one or two.

You're going to pay more money.