Original Message:
Re: New Terms and Conditions for Renting Marriott Vacation Club Units (by James M.):
Marriott is running a risk of getting sued here someday. When they try to sell their destination points, their sales pitch is often "Keep buying from us and we'll handle everything including renting out some of your properties." That is what a lot of the sales team does. They work with big high end buyers, make their reservations for them, and rent their properties. My understanding is sometimes Marriott salespeople are the ones literally grabbing up properties with destination points and then turning around and renting them on Redweek or similar services. Their argument is ... We're just working with our clients to get their maintenance fees covered and allow them "free" vacations. We're not really making a "profit" for anyone. This may very well be true, but then so what if owners go out and essentially hire company to do the same thing like Book My Points (.com) without having to spend 10s of thousands on purchasing new destination points every year. Marriott should be careful.....just sayin....
I read people complain that they can never get the weeks and properties they want. Yeah, I have no doubt. You're up against paid Marriott staff who know how to use Marriott's cumbersome and tricky destination points system where you often have literally seconds to secure high demand weeks at high demand destinations.