[ 2021 ] Preferred Check In Experience? What is this? [MERGED]

[frank808]

Just got the body snatching call on my cell. Offered $250 Visa or 400 Abound points . I said make it $300 Visa and we will go. Guy said hold on. Not even a minute later he said Ok, what time you want to attend.

One down and 2 more to go. Will see if I get body snatched at Lakeshore in a couple weeks. If offer is good, I will attend and gladly take the $300 Visa.

Will keep this thread updated to see how the games go.

Forgot to add we did a tour a couple months ago at Westin Nanea and body snatcher said our last tour was over a year ago.


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[dioxide45]

Just got the body snatching call on my cell. Offered $250 Visa or 400 Abound points . I said make it $300 Visa and we will go. Guy said hold on. Not even a minute later he said Ok, what time you want to attend.

One down and 2 more to go. Will see if I get body snatched at Lakeshore in a couple weeks. If offer is good, I will attend and gladly take the $300 Visa.

Will keep this thread updated to see how the games go.

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Great! Now if you are asked by the salesperson why you are there, you can't use @Dean reason that you were talked into it by the concierge.

 

[Dean]

My wife's rule is very different. Her's is not only yes, but heck yes. It does seem that their rules are based on the local sales office and do change over time. I recall checking in once at Shadow Ridge and signing up only to get a call saying they cancelled our tour because we had toured only a few months prior in Florida. We've never toured back to back on the same Hawaiian Island with the same company (Vistana or Marriott. Nor have we done the same in western states like CA, NV or AZ. We've done up to six tours out there, two in CA with Vistana and Marriott, then one in Las Vegas and two more in Arizona (at Canyon Villas, Desert Oasis and Kierland). This was several years ago when they seemed to also consider Sheraton and Westin tours as being somehow different.

I've been canceled when I showed up for the tour. To say I was unhappy is an understatement.

 

[dioxide45]

I've been canceled when I showed up for the tour. To say I was unhappy is an understatement.

We've never been cancelled at the sales office. We have been told once in a presentation that they shouldn't have invited us back so soon, but that it was on them. We were still gifted. Marketing and sales doesn't always seem to see eye to eye.

 

[Dean]

Marketing and sales doesn't always seem to see eye to eye.

That's for sure, they have an almost diametrically opposed agenda. As we've discussed here before, seems weird they continue to incentivize sales tours for those who have clearly demonstrated they willl not be buying.

 

[ChiefIlliniwek]

My wife's rule is not no but heck no. I talk her into it about once every year or 2. My understanding is there is no set rule for touring other than that established by the resorts sales department based on when one last toured. We've toured back to back in HI and were asked a 3rd time the third week and told we would be OK, we declined. I think the rule is more stringent if one has bought recently. I've seen a hard pass for that circumstance and it is apparently based on the date entered, not closing or submission.

I agree completely on their rules their responsibility. When asked at HHI this year why we attended, I simply told the truth that we were talked into it by the concierge.

Some salesmen have asked me that, too. "Why are you here?" Well, your concierge people made me an offer. As of late they have been asking what I was told in the previous presentation.

 

[ChiefIlliniwek]

My wife's rule is very different. Her's is not only yes, but heck yes. It does seem that their rules are based on the local sales office and do change over time. I recall checking in once at Shadow Ridge and signing up only to get a call saying they cancelled our tour because we had toured only a few months prior in Florida. We've never toured back to back on the same Hawaiian Island with the same company (Vistana or Marriott. Nor have we done the same in western states like CA, NV or AZ. We've done up to six tours out there, two in CA with Vistana and Marriott, then one in Las Vegas and two more in Arizona (at Canyon Villas, Desert Oasis and Kierland). This was several years ago when they seemed to also consider Sheraton and Westin tours as being somehow different.

Have you ever done multiple tours in a week while staying in Orlando? Stay at SVV and do a tour there, walk over to Bluegreen's The Fountains, Wyndham's Kingstown Reef, Westgate, etc. I imagine that resorts would let you do a tour without staying there?

 

[dioxide45]

Have you ever done multiple tours in a week while staying in Orlando? Stay at SVV and do a tour there, walk over to Bluegreen's The Fountains, Wyndham's Kingstown Reef, Westgate, etc. I imagine that resorts would let you do a tour without staying there?

We've never done a tour without staying at the property. I am sure we've done a Wyndham tour at Bonnet Creek and a Marriott or Vistana one on the same trip.

 

[Dean]

Have you ever done multiple tours in a week while staying in Orlando? Stay at SVV and do a tour there, walk over to Bluegreen's The Fountains, Wyndham's Kingstown Reef, Westgate, etc. I imagine that resorts would let you do a tour without staying there?

Often you get a better bribe when you get roped in from the mall or sidewalk, sometimes not. Some systems do that aggressively. MVC does it some but usually not from current members or those staying at the property from what I've seen in the past.

 

[frank808]

In n out in 45 minutes this morning. There at 1115am and out by noon. Sales guy said you are probably not buying anything and I agreed. Told me what can he do to get me to buy. Brought in his manager and he said let me see. Manager came back and said I can enroll your weeks for a 5k Abound purchase that came out to $57K plus triple points or 500k bonvoy points. I thought about it and wanted to clarify it was the enrollment of my 12.5 weeks for the purchase of 5k Abound points. He was astonished and said no that qualifies you to enroll 2 annual weeks. I said then that would not solve anything for me and declined immediately.

Also showed me email from March of this year that the lifetime for post enrollment is 10 weeks. After saying no to manager, sales guy came back and said that corporate would not approve deal because I am over the 10 week lifetime enrollment.

Fine by me. Now lets see if I get an invite in 2 weeks at Lakeshore.

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[jellen613]

Didn't get the preferred check in email or pushy rep at front to check in a couple days ago. But I did check in at 9am so preferred check in at Grand Vista was not open. BtW room was not ready till 4pm.

Also went to get parking pass and did not get invited to tour. Will check later on this week or next.

Does anyone know if MVC will let me tour here at MGV, then 2/3 weeks later at Lakeshore and then 3 weeks after that at Cypress Harbour? I am ok with sitting through those owner updates (if i get at least $225 in gift card or equivalent) to see what they try to sell me. Luckiest I have been is being let go at the 30 min mark.

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We went to a presentation in Fort Lauderdale during a points stay in April this year, then spent one night at the Miami Beach location. They offered us an incentive and presentation at the Miami Beach location the day after we left Fort Lauderdale. I was suprised it was offered (actually the Miami property called before we got there to try to arrange).

 

[frank808]

I just got the email from concierge at Lakeshore seeing if I wanted to do an update during our stay starting next week. Will wait till checkin to see what offers await us.

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