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[Q=dennish144] With respect to purchasing points privately, please be aware that the buyer will pay a $3.00 per point transfer fee to Vacation Club in addition to the amounts paid to the seller. There are also education fees, closing costs, etc. When you tally this all up, there may not be much advantage over buying from Vacation Club. We were about to buy some additional points at a recent presentation and decided to just buy another Marriott "platinum, prime location at resort, beach week" through an ad on Redweek. We can use the week, trade it, rent it easily, etc. Should we want out of the timeshare at some point, we will sell it at about what we paid for it.[/Q] I totally understand that. I thought I was not going to buy any more timeshare but ended up buying a platinum OV at Aruba and a platinum OF at Ocean Pointe. I paid more than I would resale on one of the properties but the properties combine for almost 9500 points. My price per point was $5.60. However, my maintenance fees are much less than I would have to pay if I had points. My maintenance fee would be .55 to .58 per point if I had points. With my weeks purchase from Marriott it is .39 per point.