Secondary market vs purchase from developer

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Re: Secondary market vs purchase from developer (by Jeff H.):

jonr5 wrote:
In my opinion, I think that proves the converting to Star Points is worthless when compared to trading within the Starwood network or banking within Interval. Simply put - staying 7 days at a cat 4 hotel would be 70,000 points - you'd have to have convert the entire unit 2.5 times! The only value I see is if you've had your unit for a while and really want to go to an area where Starwood or II does not have a vacation property. But trading 2+ weeks for 1 is pretty steep.

Starwood would make this aout of this world if the equated the points to the average similar hotel rate. e.g trading out a whole 2 BR unit got you 70,000 points.

Thanks for all the input. I will definitely consider redweek or Ebay when I shop for a SVN mandatory resort couple years from now, unless Starwood make me an offer that I couldn't refuse.