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Re: Marriott Going to Point Syst (by G333 S.):

To clarify the major difference in Marriott's designed point system, they registered the unsold weeks at the various resorts into a Land Trust.

As you are aware, real estate is public knowledge and I have personally looked up the deeds that were recorded in the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando.

Each deed from the various resorts, list the amount of units that contributed to the inventory in the Trust, down to the building number, week number, and season.

You would be surprised to see how many platinum and platinum plus weeks are in there. So far there are 137,000,000 points in the Trust and something like half a million real property interests that are represented by these points.

So yes, Marriott is not selling air, nor are they arbitrary, nor can points just be created at a whim, yes Marriott can sell out of the points the way they can sell out of a resort, unless of course they add more inventory, just like they would have had to build another building at the sold out property.

And for those that are spreading your opinion that it's all Marriott junk weeks, please do a little more research before stating inaccurate information for the next person to read, believe and then repeat to others....

That's probably how the rumor on this thread got started about having to give up your deed for points....seriously guys...it's called enrollment. Not CONVERSION. Enrollment implies that you take part in what you are enrolling in, it does not imply a conversion which by definition is a change from one thing to another.

You can enroll and never elect to use destination points as your usage option, just like you never have to use Interval if you didn't feel like it.

Some of you should just enroll to enjoy the simplified fee structure. Ignore the added option of being able to use your week as Destination points all together.

I know this: if you purchased your week/weeks from Marriott Directly, and you don't use it at your home resort in your size/season....that means you are paying for Interval and exchange fees.

The $595 or $695 enrollment fee is money your going to spend just in Interval renewals. Forget any of the other fees that go away.....NEVER having to pay for Interval again is worth the enrollment fee. Those of you who have lock offs and have been using it to get two weeks into interval can continue to do that and not ever pay lock off fees or marriott to marriott exchange fees ever again.

If you really don't like Destination points, then simply don't choose that as your usage option.

Why are people confused about that? What rumor is going around that says you have to permanently change your weeks to points forever and that you have to give up your deed to do it and on top of that have to pay the company for that????

So to set things straight: Two benefits to enrollment: save money on various fees and have an added OPTION to use our week as Destination points WHEN we want.

Some may benefit from both of those because of the flexibility point usage offers that Interval doesn't, Some may never want to use points and will just enroll to save on fees. But your deed stays the same and nothing has been taken away from your ownership whether you choose to enroll or not.