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Re: Marriott Going to Point Syst (by Joseph M.):

I agree with all that you have said. When we sat down and figured out how much we have invested in MVC in the 15 yrs that we have been owners...w/o fees, it comes to approximately $93000.00. I don't think that we have been "gaming" the system, I do think we have enjoyed many lovely vacations, but we (whether we realize it or not) have paid "top" dollar for those vacations! Unfortunately we purchased at our home resort, not to stay there, but to use the trading power to travel to other MVC resorts. I say unfortunately, because it makes no economic sense to convert to the point system, as Marriott has devalued the 2 gold weeks that we own. Not only that, we purchased 2 weeks so that we had an advantage to reserving a strong week at our home resort 13 mo in advance and now we are competing w/ points owners for that privilege. The week that we have always reserved in the past is valued at 2900 pts and Marriott has valued our weeks at 2475pts. There are many "loyal" Marriott customers who are penalized with this program and have no choice but to hope that the inventory is not so diluted at II to get the trades of choice. I suspect, my opinion, that "legacy" owners who do not convert, will be the last owners to attain requested weeks within the MVC network.