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Re: Marriott Vacation Club point system (by Tracey S.):

Dennish, At 12 and 13 months points owners and legacy owners in the DC (Destination Club) can only book weeks that are either in the trust or from owners who have relinquished their week in order to get points for that year. So using very small numbers if the trust has 50 platinum weeks and 10 platinum owners have decided to elect points for the year from resort XYZ then once 60 weeks have been booked by DC points users than no more weeks would be available for them to book. Marriott also owns weeks that it has not put in the trust and also has control of weeks for which owners have traded for Marriott reward points (hotel points). In the past Marriott has left these weeks in the availability pull until later. It may be they are pulling them out at 12 months as well but it is their weeks to use.

There has been speculation that Marriott decides which weeks they think will be more popular and pulls the number of weeks out of the general pool at exactly 9am at the 12 month mark before weeks callers can book. It is also speculated that they pull II deposits and then substitutes other "equivalent" weeks from the trust to deposit but they can't pull unlimited weeks from the general availability for points users only their allotted number.