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Re: Marriott Going to Point Syst (by Neil D.):

I have read most but not all of this message board, so I apologize if this question has already been answered.

I own a deeded week at the Maui Ocean club with Floating usage. Let's take the following scenario - I join the points program and in a given year decide that I want to trade my week for points so I can go to another Marriot resort, - My week in Maui for that year then becomes part of the inventory that is available for points users in the destinations program.

The question is "How does Marriott decide what week to move into the Destinations inventory". I have a floating week, Does Marriott get to choose, in which case whenever someone in Maui submits a week they no doubt choose to a week between June 15 and Aug 30. Or is there some other mechanism "such as I have to reserve a week first before I can submit it for points"

I have two concerns. The first is that if this happens and a significant number of floating week owners trade for points, summer week inventory for deeded week owners will drop significantly and we will be forced to go in the off season.

The second is that even though under the old system all Hawaii floating weeks were platinum, in the new points system summer weeks have a higher point total. Which gives Marriott an additional opportunity to game the system.

Discuss.....