I take tours to scout for "friendshare"
Even if I might not be interested in buying, Marriott makes it worth my efforts to bring others to them who will.
Welcome to TUG!
BTW, we also own (developer) multiple NCV's...
Pat
jimbo said:
What about made-up fake names?
yes.
another thing. When we took our last tour in Newport Villas, the sales rep showed us pictures of the places he had been to, backed up with his interval account.yes.
My birthday is March 11th. Anyhow, i would forget about your expereince, and look forward to your next vacation. life is to short!
i look at some of your replys and it seems like some of you are on this ALL day every day. Good you you!
That is not my experience. I dealt with a salesperson at the central site once. I didn't know it was a Marriott person because they had listed as a resale at Ocean Pointe, he did still say it was a resale but the price was exactly the same as the retail would have been for that unit. He gave a number of untruths, most we've all seen posted or heard ourselves. Things like you can't call the II Marriott desk, can't make reservations directly with Marriott, etc but that since he worked for Marriott he could work it out. I was dealing with another rep there at the time just coincidentally and he never should have pursued the sale possibility as it's their rule, or at least etiquitte, to not step on each others toes in this manner. There were so many issues that I contacted corporate who was very interested so to speak. I heard back from the other rep that it was "handled" and that she was pleased. While she didn't elaborate, and shouldn't have, I got the destinct impression that they did care. Of course it could have been the breech of coworker protocol but it didn't seem so.
I can tell you for certain that in the past certain II members, sales people and resort execs were given special access and hand picked trades with II, I've seen it myself on a number of occassions. One specific example I'm aware of is with a nice resort where II only got an average of about 5-6 deposits a year, one of the II higher ups simply waited till the next deposit for that resort and gave it to a Marriott employee even though they didn't have an ongoing request in formally. In addtion I know that even TUG members have gotten cozy with II reps and gotten special treatment. I suspect the computer matching did away with much of this and have had info from II and from some more knowledgeable sales people with Marriott and others that are c/w my impression.
I would hope for his sake that this is not the person most of us know. Given your level of knowledge it's unlikely these were simply misunderstandings. There may be a few half truths in your information as he may have been referring to retrades which can be a valuable tool though not as described unless you wanted St. Kitts. It is possible to trade the lockoff for a larger unit at times. It's also possible the reference to points was related to either the points incentives or the first years usage. Still, all in all it sounds like a crock.This salesperson at Marriott Horizons had very new information for us that we were amazed to hear:
He said we could lockoff a unit every year and get the 110,000 Marriott points as well, every year. This is different from anything I have ever heard before.
He also said you can take a studio or lockoff, then exchange into a two bedroom that only has two bedrooms, like St. Kitts, then you can use that unit to exchange into something harder to get, like a two bedroom on Maui.
So he is saying we can use a week we got in exchange through II, then we can use the exchanged week to get ANOTHER exchange.
Are these things true? I caught him in a few little lies, but these two things he said just didn't sound right.
This is supposedly the top salesperson in Marriott. So I AM SURE you guys know him.
yes.
My birthday is March 11th. Anyhow, i would forget about your expereince, and look forward to your next vacation. life is to short!
i look at some of your replys and it seems like some of you are on this ALL day every day. Good you you!
Marriott almost sells itself.
It is not.
I know it didn't sound like his approach but wondered if the OP was dropping hints with the wording and wink vs but must have been more questioning their credentials as the top person.
Given that you seem to know for sure that suggests to me that you either heard from that person and/or had the same question I did and asked.
Dean, I was saying that if he is the top salesperson, surely TUGgers would already know who he is.
He sold way over a million bucks last year and has a plaque. I sold almost that in real estate last year, but my pay wasn't very good. :hysterical: I think he makes more than my average per $1,000.
I told my son that at $20K per sale for Platinum ownership, $1 Million in sales is only 50 weeks sold a year. He probably meets with 15-25 people per week. So he only sells one to two of those people per week.
Dean, I was saying that if he is the top salesperson, surely TUGgers would already know who he is.
He sold way over a million bucks last year and has a plaque. I sold almost that in real estate last year, but my pay wasn't very good. :hysterical: I think he makes more than my average per $1,000.
I told my son that at $20K per sale for Platinum ownership, $1 Million in sales is only 50 weeks sold a year. He probably meets with 15-25 people per week. So he only sells one to two of those people per week.