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Re: Marriott Going to Point Syst (by J E.):

Marriott has created a PR nightmare for themselves and their owners.

All they had to do was continue selling deeded property and adding the "convert to points" option for those who wished to buy in. This would have the advantage of everyone having a "home location" and a "home mtce fee" -- while offering another more flexible way to use your weeks if you wish to do so.

Instead they now have two systems: one for deeded owners and one for points owners with the points owners having to pay 40 cents per point for the mtce fee. This significanty changes who pays the mtce fees as Hawaii is averaged with Orlando. Since the points needed for bronze weeks are less then for a platinum week, then by defination not all owners are paying the same fee per week for the same location.

It is true that some of the sales people are totally mispositioning how the new plan works and how priorities are determined. This happened to a friend of mine this past week at a location I atttended.

The soluton is to continue to sell deeded property and to sell the vacation points as an option. Then all owners would be treated equally. This reminds me of when Coke came out with the new coke that no one liked. They went back to the old Coke. The question is whether Marriott managment can catch on that there is a much better way to do this that would be far easier to implement and would have far more support of the owners -- and the salespeople.