We are going through a Dog and Pony today at Grand Chateau. What is the current minimum purchase required to join DC or is there even a minimum to join??
We are going through a Dog and Pony today at Grand Chateau. What is the current minimum purchase required to join DC or is there even a minimum to join??
Do you mean minimum to enroll your legacy weeks or minimum number of points to purchase?
If minimum points to purchase, I believe they will tell you its 2,000 points, but it has been reported many times that they drop it to 1,500 or 1,000 to try and get you to bite.
If minimum dollars to enroll, if all of your weeks are developer purchases, then it will be $695 to enroll all your pre-June 2010 developer weeks. If some of those are resale weeks, it goes up to $1,995.
Good luck --
Greg
kds4,
Ended up same situation at 1000 points after doing the old car purchase negotiation thing. Hated to do it but I was getting the feeling with the decrease of inventory in II that we were getting boxed in and with the amount we had invested in Marriott timeshares already that we needed to do something.![]()
10,000 and 2 local show tickets, good old days are gone.
Thanks for the update. We already got 800 plus points for enrolling our week, so I imagine if we bought 1000 points we wouldn't receive any incentive. Not sure we would do it anyways, but I am glad we enrolled for the flexibility it provides.
They started our recent Owner Update at 2,500 points, dropped to 1,500, and finally bottomed out at 1,000 (which is what we bought).
It sounds like you took the plung. What price did they charge for 1,000 points? I assume they don't provide any incentives since this is the lowest level of points. At least that is what they used to say. Thanks for the update.
And did they still give you a credit for the enrollment fee?
What I find disturbing is that people are feeling almost coerced to buy points so that they will have access to inventory that they otherwise supposedly will not have. Buying points does not in any way change what is already owned. Legacy points will forever be just that- legacy points, and will have access to the exchange pool inventory whether or not trust points are owned. Buying trust points does not convert the legacy points, and I think that line is getting blurred.
Don't get me wrong- congrats for buying more points IF you really wanted them. But buying a small points package just to "have access to the Marriott inventory that is not showing up on II now" doesn't really make sense to me. Week inventory will still be accessible in the DC in the exchange pool to legacy owners using legacy points, and even if trust inventory is a little more available to trust point owners, keep in mind that you can only access it with the 1000 points you bought, which won't get you very far. You will still need for the inventory to be available in the exchange pool in order to book it using your legacy points, the same way it would be if you didn't own any trust points.
I think salespeople are creating an aura of new point purchases somehow super-charging legacy points, which just isn't the case, and people are buying out of fear. It bothers me that the salespeople are resorting more and more to misstating the facts; to me, that just underscores the weakness of the product they are trying to sell.