Joe,
If I'm not mistken, most of your weeks were purchased from Marriot and resales pre 2010 cut off so you always had the option to enroll those weeks for a small fee. They always try to seel you the points and then offer you the enrollment for your eligible weeks.
Now for your post 2010 weeks they are going to try to sell you the points and won't let you enroll those unless you purchase. No need for you to do that because you are now enrolled and can convert any of those to points if you chose and you have enough effective points to put you at Presidential status.
As you state you don't see yourself converting your prime weeks because they rent well and thasts OK. Nothing forces you to do so be enrolling. You just have more options to use now if you ever decided to utilze the points. Congrats on enrolling.
We are at Hilton Head this week as well staying at Harbour Point. We move over to Barony tomorrow for our 2nd week.
We actually bought 4 weeks prior to 2004 from Marriott and then the rest from the resale market. We then sold 2 of those direct weeks so what we have now are 2 direct and 17 resale market so I was very surprised when they made the offer.
Even though I don't see us using the DC very much we couldn't pass up the overall value of the encore with the 50k points, 800 DC and the free trip, and now at least having a DC acct is a no-brainer for me.
What they did enroll makes us Chairman level which I know has benefits.
My take is why would I ever enroll my Maui OV and OF units? Or my OceanWatch OF Plat units. Those are some of the best rental weeks of any TS anywhere for sure. Same with our GO gold OF units.
I guess if we wanted to do something really special like an Alaskan cruise the DC allows for that but we go to some pretty special places already like Maui and HHI which are just so special to us. Plus those special trips seem more expensive through the DC so again not sure what value the DC will bring us but I'll play around and see for myself.
The one way I thought the DC could work for us is if I could get my 5 HHI weeks that aren't GOs enrolled and then combining those points to secure Maui or MOW to rent or use but they were not about to allow that without me spending a min of $26k in points so that was a non-starter for us. I told them I had $20k to spend on 2k points and 5 HHi enrolled and they didn't bite so that ended the sales pitch and then the encore guy came in.
When I go back for our encore my position will be the same and it will probably make for another quick tour, this one lasted 1 hour because they knew we were different he wasn't going to be able to sell us the dream because we were already living it. We went in there with a direct plan and didn't waiver and that made for a quick session.
I am going to call back and ask for that $1499 GO or Monarch deal for the 2nd to last week in August next year. It would be nice to add that to our GO that last week in August and be here for 2 weeks again for our 3rd year in a row.
bonus of MRP points)?
