Home Exchange Memberships With Multiple Clubs
Several times recently we’ve had visitors to the ExchangeHomes.com home exchange web site who have taken the trouble to add listings of their own, complete with great, detailed descriptions and lots of bright, illustrative photographs, but they’ve stopped short of paying the necessary fee to make the listing go live.
Our policy is to give them a couple of days—maybe they feel they need to spend some more time working on their home exchange listings first—then we email the potential members and gently remind them that until they commit to paying the necessary listing fee, all their efforts are in vain because without activation, their listings will remain hidden from view.
Three of these people have astonished us with their replies. They explained that they have already paid a listing fee to join another club, hence they felt that we should include their properties on our web site free of charge! One person in fact, all but demanded that we release his listing for all to view and went on to detail his opinion that ALL the clubs should join together and publish each others listings.
This attitude amazes me; I’ve heard similar stories from other clubs. ExchangeHomes.com isn’t a charity, we too have bills to pay and a living to make. Maybe the people now expecting free memberships with second and third clubs should have researched their first choice a little more closely before committing to them because each of them cited lack of success as their reason for turning to us.
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