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Re: Marriott Going to Point Syst (by Barbara K.):
We just came back from the Marriott Maui Ocean Club where we met with the timeshare staff about the points program. No thank you! I don't like the idea of not owning a week every year at your home resort and instead having points. And the way the system works, it's likely you won't have enough points to go all the places they say this new "flexibility" will allow.
They said we could change our ownership week into points for $1500. We bought on the resale market (through Redweek). If we'd bought through Marriott, it's something like $500 to convert. He said that only 5% of Marriott owners were choosing NOT to go with points. Yeah, right! What a bunch of bunk.
He also said that if owners convert to points, they no longer have the option of selling their "unit" on the open market - that it can only be sold back to Marriott. So that means whatever Marriott will pay is what you'd get in resale.
The points system is awful! Don't do it!