They aren't. MVC owners had the option to enroll for a fee. Many didn't. Also any resale purchases after June 2010 aren't eligible to enroll unless one requalifies it with a big developer point purchase. So there are a lot of MVC weeks owners that are not in Abound.
I don't think unenrolled owners are eligible to select Club Points as part of a tour incentive.
I can confirm you are correct from a discussion with Sales and Marketing recently. You have to paying the Abound Club Dues in order to receive and use Club Points. That incentive option would just be dropped for those unenrolled and they would have to choose among the remaining incentives.
If you already owned pre-2010, you should be able to enroll in Abound for free. @dioxide45 can point you in the right direction.
If your week is pre June 2010 and you are a US resident, you can enroll for free by watching the webinar.
Once you do the free enrollment as others have mentioned, each year you can use your week as you always have or elect to receive points for it instead. You will be paying the annual Abound Club Dues ranging from $230-$295 every year once you enroll it, regardless of whether or not you elect points for it in a given use year.
The only incentive to enroll is if you think you will want to go to any other properties in the system and doing so through Abound points is the best/most economical way to get there (instead of trading through II or simply selling your week/buying the week you want on Redweek or somewhere similar).
If you indeed have a pre-2010 week, you don't have to pay to enroll You can do so by watching an online webinar like others have mentioned here. You are not giving up your week, just adding the option to elect it for Club Points in a given year. Any year you want to stay at NCV, book it like you always have. Any year you want to elect Club Points and go other places, do that. Once you are enrolled, you can also keep using your week as you always have and instead just rent Abound points each year from other owners.
Thanks for your reply. How is it more economical than trading through interval? I’m sorry if I seem slow on this points system, but I’m not understanding how it’s more economical. Thanks for your patience!
I’m wondering why it was so expensive for us to enroll and add just 2000 abound points to our week(he said it was worth like 3700 points I think)? It was $43,000!
When apparently it should have been free(especially since we didn’t say we wanted the extra points).
Sadly they wouldn't tell you about that free option when they can sell you a different option that will get you the same thing. Technically they aren't misleading you, just not fully disclosing the truth. Lucky for you you didn't buy and now you can achieve the same goal for free.
Well, with II you typically trade a week for exactly a week (or possibly exactly two if you own a lock-off). With Abound, you can do shorter stays (or longer) that are not multiples of 7 nights. Depending on when/where you use Abound points (especially if you avoid higher cost weekend nights), you could end up with more than 7 or even more than 14 nights total for the year. In addition, once your week is enrolled in Abound, there are no lock-off fees, your annual II membership is free, and you have a $0 exchange fee in II when exchanging your enrolled week into MVC or VSN resorts.
You pay maintenance fees like you have always done on the unit(s) you own, those are for the upkeep of the property. If you want to 'play' in Abound you pay an annual enrollment fee in additional to your regular maintenance fees.
Fixing for clarity. It would be an annual Club Fee. The enrollment fee is paid only once (if you don't get free enrollment).
He could have been outright lying, but it also could be yet another example of a salesperson not actually understanding the product they sell. He might have been confused because there are some fees (lock-off, internal II exchange, etc) that do go away when a week is enrolled in II. Just not Maintenance Fees.
I hope he was just confused…he was a really nice guy, and he said he was new, but it so strange that the senior guy they sent in later for the encore package still said we could get 650Abound points for the package, even though we didn’t change our deeded week to Abound points.
I don't think it's necessary to watch the webinar. I didn't. I just called and asked them about enrolling my weeks, which were purchased before 2010, and they sent me a link to click and agree to the enrollment terms. That's all there was to it.
Have they changed this? I no longer see an option to "search and book reservations" on MVC home page.
