While on a home
exchange two seniors went to breakfast at a
restaurant where the "seniors' special"
was two eggs, bacon, hash browns & toast for
$1.99.
"Sounds good," the wife said to the server
"But I don't want the eggs."
"Then, I'll have to charge you two dollars
& forty-nine cents because you're ordering a la
carte," the server warned her.
"You mean I'd have to pay for not taking the
eggs?" the wife asked incredulously.
"Yes!!" stated the server.
"I'll take the special then." the wife
said.
"How do you want your eggs?" the server
asked.
"Raw and in the shell," the wife replied.
She took the two eggs home.
Even
more choice for Global Home Exchange members!
This is a limited time offer: We have teamed up with Home Base Holidays (www.homebase-hols.com), a
long established home exchange service based in London England, to offer
Global members the chance to also join this second independent agency at
only £1 for one year. ( £1 is approximately one dollar fifty cents)
Like Global, Home Base Holidays is a private, paid membership agency
that provides an excellent service. If you are a current Global member,
and would like information on listing your home on Home Base Holidays,
please contact us and we will send you details, with no obligation to
continue Home Base Holidays membership at the end of the year. If you
aren't a current Global member, join or renew and then let us know if
you would like to take up the £1 membership offer from Home Base
Holidays.
Note: this member benefit is also being promoted to Home Base Holidays
members and we look forward to welcoming many current HBH members to
Global Home Exchange. The partnership with Home Base Holidays increases
the choice of exchange offers for all our members at very little cost.
Replying to other members contacts:
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO WHEN SOMEONE SENDS YOU A HOME EXCHANGE INQUIRY?
As a courtesy, we ask all members to try to respond to every inquiry, even if to tell other members that
you will not accept the exchange offer.
Global offers you two choices to reply to other
members inquiries
1. You may reply to any contact by clicking on reply in your
email program and sending a return message. To help others know which listing
is yours, please be sure to include your location and listing ID number
in your reply.
2. As an alternative, you may also choose to reply to a contact by
logging in to your members area and replying directly to the members
listing. (listing number and location is automatically included in the contact they sent). By using the contact
form, the system automatically records your location, listing ID and a
link to your listing plus leaves you with a record of your reply that is
stored in your members area sent folder.
Pausing or canceling
a home exchange listing.
If you
wish to have your home exchange listing paused
or removed, please notify us by
email. We will pause or remove your
listing and send you a
confirmation.
We DO NOT automatically bill
your credit card when your listing expires. We
give members a choice, to continue their listing
or ask to have it removed at any time. No notice is
needed.
Sometimes Emergencies happen.
This summer we enjoyed a
terrific one week exchange to Dana Point
California.
We
usually give ourselves some extra time when leaving
to catch a flight, almost always resulting in us
waiting longer at the boarding gate. This time
was different.
While driving our rental
car back to the airport the rear tire blew. It
wasn't just a flat, the entire sidewall came
apart. Fortunately emergency call boxes are
generously distributed along the side of southern
California freeways.
Ten minutes after we called
the emergency help line, an Orange County Highway tow truck driver arrived,
He quickly changed our tire, put the damaged one in
the trunk and didn't charge us a penny.
We were on our way to the
airport arriving just in time. I am not
sure if such service is normal, but it certainly was
appreciated
New Home
Exchange website
In 2012
Global will have a newly designed and upgraded home
exchange site. We will keep you informed of the
progress.
Currently,
4homex.com, the site you are currently on offers
information and links. All Global Home Exchange
listings and search functions are on our Global Pacific
Vacation Homes site. Both sites are well linked to each
other. This two URL structure will change when our
new site is added to 4homex.com.
When
our new website is in place and running smoothly, we will be
considering the following possible programs. Right now
they are at the thought stage and we would appreciate your
prospective as feedback
Non Profit
Groups
Global Members
Perks
Entrepreneurial
Programs
For the past 10 years Global has generously supported non
profit groups in our community.
We have often
thought about reaching out to other worldwide community service clubs
or non profit groups. One thought was to allow
service clubs and non profit groups anywhere in the world to offer Global
memberships in their own community. The organization
would keep 100% of all money they receive through donations or sales of Global
memberships. People who donated funds or
purchased a membership through the service club or non
profit organization would receive a coupon for 1 year listing on Global.
Some clubs
already offer incentives for members to for want of a better
word "recruit" new members. Often these
incentives can include extending listing time or providing a
large renewal discount to rewarding members who bring in new
home exchange listings with a small percentage of the signup
fee.
As a thought, each
Global member would be provided with 10 one year membership
coupons. The member can choose to just ignore the
coupon and do nothing, give them away to
family/friends/colleagues or have others share in the cost,
each person pays our member $5 for the coupon. Upon
sharing the cost of 10 coupons our member has $50, covering
the cost of their own membership or the member can choose to
sell each coupon at face value, getting paid directly, they
keep100% of all money they generate.
To
expand our home exchange marketing we may provide a program
for those wanting to start there own home exchange sites in
there country but don't want to go through the challenges of
building up a membership base. Use Global as their
listing database. Visitors would come to their
web page. Those visitors choosing to join, pay the
affiliate directly, then they are taken o Global to list
their exchange. The affiliate gets 100% of anything
paid to them minus any expenses they have.
Wishing
all good health, prosperity and a happy 2012
From the staff at Global Home Exchange Nanaimo BC Canada
