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Re: Purchasing a Marriot Vacation Club timeshare (by William F.):
Since we own units in three Marriott locations, I'll chip in here. We have bought from Marriot, from resellers on ebay and from Marriott doing resales. There are several keys to resales. If you buy from Marriott, you can trade your week for Marriott points worth more than your annual fee, in many cases. However, most current Marriott developments allow this only every other year. If you buy from another reseller, there is no access to Marriott points.
One other item. For the better Marriott locations, Marriott runs it own resale program. They sell these for the original list price, and take about 1/3. This is much better than any other return on TS resales that I know about. However, they won't take weeks that were not originally bought from Marriott.
So make sure you plan to keep the week, or else get a good price buying so you can get it back when you resell. And, yes, we do love our Marriott weeks, all of which are attached to large Marriott resort hotels. I don't know if I would buy one of the stand alone resorts.