The cynical me says the OP is a troll. The OP has refused to provide pertinent details about a transaction they seem very eager to tell everyone here from their initial post.
If they’re just trolling, it’s the worst sales technique I’ve ever seen.
While TUG has a ton of members, timeshare retail sales would never exist if everyone used common sense when making a purchase. Sometimes purchases are made simply because it makes it easier, or there’s the illusion that it’s easier.
The reality is points are points regardless of where they come from, deeded weeks or trust points. It’s just as easy to use either. With deeds you have to convert them to points, but it takes about 2 minutes, so it’s not a worth spending thousands of dollar.
There’s the argument that owning individual weeks leaves owner susceptible to special assessments, and they do happen. However, after 24 years of Marriott ownership, there hasn’t been that many and they haven’t been that large.
There are some weeks where the deeded week’s MF are higher than the Abound points received. In that case it’s worth looking at, but generally won’t make sense from an upfront cost perspective at current retail price. In our case we’d have to spend $35,000 to save < $300 per year in MF’s.
The only reason I’ve ever come up with is wanting to increase ownership, maybe to climb to a higher status level, and you have deeded weeks that no longer fit your needs and want to get rid of them. Sure it’s more expensive but for some easy is worth paying a premium. I think if we were younger, we might consider the option. As it is we’d never recoup the initial cost.
There is one advantage many deeded weeks have that points will never offer and that’s exchanges. Our 3 deeded weeks could get a total of 6
full weeks if we locked off them off and exchanged. We’d give up the ability to select view, but for a lot of owners view isn’t important.
