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Re: Marriott Vacation Club point system (by Steve F.):

Well, Interval notes it as 0 private bedroom, i.e., lockoff as you said (looking right at it on intervalworld.com). Hardly the same as comparing your maint fee for high season for an entire 2 bedroom unit vs renting a room in low season that is of hotel room size at best, i.e., the lockoff was my only point. It's very misleading to people as they assume it is as you say, but it is not. You are comparing two totally different things and I merely want to clarify that.

Interval lists the room as 0, not me. It's listed a 0 private bedrooms, 2 capacity on a regular bed, 2 on likely a sleeper sofa.

If you want to compare fairly, you would compare room rental in high season vs high season, with the same room size as you pay maint fee for. But saying you can rent it from II for $777 is not factually correct when you say you are comparing it to the maint fee. The maint fee is almost certainly not for a lockoff is it?

I get you are unhappy with what you agreed to and purchased, you've made that clear. But, do not turn to the same tactics as used by timeshare sellers and say things that are full of statements comparing unlike things. Making massive statements like you can always rent for lower than maint is simply not true. When you say things like "since anywhere else I can rent for a lot less than the $1,500. maintenance fees.". Really, *ANYWHERE*? I already gave you places where you could not do so, so, the statement is simply untrue.

As of right now, I can rent Aruba Ocean (or Surf) club at Getaway prices on II in low season for $777 for the lockoff, and, $1,057 for the 1 bedroom. So, combined that is $1,834 for an equivalent 2 bedroom for which you pay maint on (which I am assuming is what you own). This is straight from interval world, not wishful thinking or not a one time deal for one guy. So, you should be comparing $1,834 for your maint fee rental equivalent in low season vs your maint fee in high season. That's an equivalent comparison. Not so good a deal now is it? You said you paid $1,500, and, to rent in a lower season is $1,834. Where is the great deal?

Even if you are paying maint for only a 1 bedroom, no idea if that property does that, then, yes, renting in low season is cheaper than maint fee from high season. Is that not what you would expect? I would.

I have always said it is certainly possible sometimes to do as you say, it is possible at some places in some cases. I am sure everyone realizes that. But don't stretch that to make wild claims like anywhere, any time, and then compare a lockoff vs an entire unit! Isn't that a fair statement?