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Any success on combining accounts recently?

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So this seems to blow the whole "we can't combine accounts" theory out of the water.

One other question, When you go to your StarOption summary, is there any message there in red about having separate memberships?
 

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One other question, When you go to your StarOption summary, is there any message there in red about having separate memberships?
No, nothing in red anywhere on the StarOptions summary page and it shows both contracts on the page with the various options for the various years for each contract with overall totals for each year at the bottom.
 

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So this seems to blow the whole "we can't combine accounts" theory out of the water.

One other question, When you go to your StarOption summary, is there any message there in red about having separate memberships?
It's not in red, but my summary page shows the following:
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When I go to make a reservation and select to book using HomeOptions (I have both developer-purchased and resale Sheraton Flex) I get the following:
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I was trying to dig up the other example of a resale that was added to an account after 8/8. I beleive though that theirs was purchased prior to 8/9 but it just didn't complete until after. I don't think that owner was able to elect club points but their Owner Benefit Level went up. I thought it was @alexadeparis but I can't find it through numerous searches. This could be a case of bad Marriott IT allowing a post 8/8 resale week to be eligible. We had something similar back in 2010/2011 when they rolled out their DC program initially.
 

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It's not in red, but my summary page shows the following:
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When I go to make a reservation and select to book using HomeOptions (I have both developer-purchased and resale Sheraton Flex) I get the following:
View attachment 75595
Thanks for posting this. I thought it was red. It has been a long time since I had this message on my account and couldn't dig anything up about it.
 

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Thanks for posting this. I thought it was red. It has been a long time since I had this message on my account and couldn't dig anything up about it.
No problem. I've got a whole different kind of mess going on, and I'm starting to wonder if it's ever going to be cleaned up.
 

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We had something similar back in 2010/2011 when they rolled out their DC program initially
Did Marriott try and go back and correct them or did they let them stay eligible? not sure why it went through, but the only thing that I can think of is since the seller bought directly from the developer, it would have been classified as a developer purchase at rollout and that did not change during the transfer process (I.e. we were the first resale buyer of this unit). Would the Developer Vs Resale classification show anywhere on the website?
 
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Did Marriott try and co back and correct them or did they let them stay eligible? not sure why it went through, but the only thing that I can think of is since the seller bought directly from the developer, it would have been classified as a developer purchase at rollout and that did not change during the transfer process (I.e. we were the first resale buyer of this unit). Would the Developer Vs Resale classification show anywhere on the website?
Marriott said they would unenroll those ineligble weeks, but they never did. I am not aware of a way to see on the website if it is developer or resale classified.
 

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I was trying to dig up the other example of a resale that was added to an account after 8/8. I beleive though that theirs was purchased prior to 8/9 but it just didn't complete until after. I don't think that owner was able to elect club points but their Owner Benefit Level went up. I thought it was @alexadeparis but I can't find it through numerous searches. This could be a case of bad Marriott IT allowing a post 8/8 resale week to be eligible. We had something similar back in 2010/2011 when they rolled out their DC program initially.
No it wasn’t me.
 

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Thanks for posting this. I thought it was red. It has been a long time since I had this message on my account and couldn't dig anything up about it.
Out of curiosity, do you happen to know why you had that message and how it got fixed?
 

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Out of curiosity, do you happen to know why you had that message and how it got fixed?
It happened after we had a new resale contract added to our account. From what I understand the issue related to one of two things. When Vistana transferred the week to us they assigned a new VSN membership number on the contract. Both contracts were in our account, but they had different membership numbers. The other possibility was that Vistana didn't update the VSN membership number associated with the contract to our number and it still had the old owner's membership number on it. Thus we had "StarOptions from your multiple club memberships". That is what the message stated. Back in those days you could call "Program Administration" directly and they knew right away how to fix it. One case they fixed it over the phone and in two others it took about a day to be fixed. These days we can no longer call "Program Administration" as all numbers now lead to generic owner services.

I think the suggestion now is if there are issues with merged/not merged contracts when you buy a new resale week is to simply reply to the email they send when they notify you of the transfer. Some people have had success getting that done.
 
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