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Going to Marriott owner's meeting... any tips?

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We're at Marriott Newport Coast and decided to attend the owner's meeting. They gave us two tix for Disney as incentive.

Any tips for attending? They said it would be 90 mins and I don't want to stay longer than that.
 

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We're at Marriott Newport Coast and decided to attend the owner's meeting. They gave us two tix for Disney as incentive.

Any tips for attending? They said it would be 90 mins and I don't want to stay longer than that.



Keep your hands in your pocket and then go enjoy the Disney tickets.....




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Set your alarm to go off 90 min after your appt and every 10 min after for about an half hour. This way you and the sales person keeps getting reminded time is up.

As long as you don't buy, you'll be good.
 

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Set your alarm to go off 90 min after your appt and every 10 min after for about an half hour. This way you and the sales person keeps getting reminded time is up.

As long as you don't buy, you'll be good.
Better yet, set your alarm for 75 minutes (really loud), so you can say, "15 minutes to go, better get me to the encore desk..."
 

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Haha! I like the alarm idea. I'm going to do that. Thanks everyone!
 

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Haha! I like the alarm idea. I'm going to do that. Thanks everyone!

Well, I agree with BocaBoy that an alarm is a little tacky, however, we all know they may not hesitate to keep you longer, depending on the sales person.

Perhaps you set the aforementioned alarm for 90 minutes and point out that you need to be somewhere?

Good luck!

Best,

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Well, I agree with BocaBoy that an alarm is a little tacky, however, we all know they may not hesitate to keep you longer, depending on the sales person.

Perhaps you set the aforementioned alarm for 90 minutes and point out that you need to be somewhere?

Good luck!

Best,

Greg

I think that would probably be the best as well. It's less confrontational and easy to say you planned on 90 min and you have plans after.
 

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Seriously? Pretty tacky.
Tacky? :hysterical:

Compared to the lack of good taste, style, dowdiness, and cheap showiness of the salesperson who wants to extend the presentation past the time promised?

An alarm is pure professionalism, and class. :)
 

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I'm not particularly worried about appearing tacky to a timeshare salesperson... I do love the irony though.
 

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In my experience, they will ask you how much money per year to plan to spend on travel. Then they will show you how they can save you money over the long run by buying some points.

They will claim that your maintenance fees will go up by three percent per year, while all your other travel expenses besides the maintenance fees will go up by 7% per year. The difference in those two slopes (3% vs. 7%) is how they will save you money.

Of course, the initial cost of the points appears nowhere in the calculation.

You can put them off their normal routine by declining to tell them how much you plan to spend on travel, overall.
 

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In my experience, they will ask you how much money per year to plan to spend on travel. Then they will show you how they can save you money over the long run by buying some points.

They will claim that your maintenance fees will go up by three percent per year, while all your other travel expenses besides the maintenance fees will go up by 7% per year. The difference in those two slopes (3% vs. 7%) is how they will save you money.

Of course, the initial cost of the points appears nowhere in the calculation.

You can put them off their normal routine by declining to tell them how much you plan to spend on travel, overall.

Funny thing I have never made it to that point of calculations.
 

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In my experience, they will ask you how much money per year to plan to spend on travel. Then they will show you how they can save you money over the long run by buying some points.

They will claim that your maintenance fees will go up by three percent per year, while all your other travel expenses besides the maintenance fees will go up by 7% per year. The difference in those two slopes (3% vs. 7%) is how they will save you money.

Of course, the initial cost of the points appears nowhere in the calculation.

You can put them off their normal routine by declining to tell them how much you plan to spend on travel, overall.
That is the script I recall when they were selling weeks. Once you ask where the upfront money comes in to the calculation, they respond by asking if you want to make your family happy or not. :rofl:

With points sales, the script I have seen has just been to show you lots of nice places, tell you how great it is to vacation for less than a week of time, how reserving is "just like calling to reserve a room from Marriott," with points instead of cash. They never make the link between how much those points cost (buy-in +MF) for what you are getting.

If you push them on availability, they show you single or double day reservations midweek, in low seasons.
 

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That is the script I recall when they were selling weeks. Once you ask where the upfront money comes in to the calculation, they respond by asking if you want to make your family happy or not. :rofl:

With points sales, the script I have seen has just been to show you lots of nice places, tell you how great it is to vacation for less than a week of time, how reserving is "just like calling to reserve a room from Marriott," with points instead of cash. They never make the link between how much those points cost (buy-in +MF) for what you are getting.

If you push them on availability, they show you single or double day reservations midweek, in low seasons.

Our experience is similar. I have never seen the cost comparison of renting vs buying once they moved to selling DC points. Now it is just showing you all the great places you can go and how you won't be able to get to any of them through II now that all the deposits in II have dried up.

I think it is now hard for them to justify the prices when comparing renting to buying points. The numbers just don't work any more, so they can't show them.
 

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We did a Marriott presentation last week.

Our "hot tip" is that after you survive the closer, the person who will then meet with you to check you out and give your your Marriott point certificate will try to sell you an explorer package -- a timeshare stay at a not-too-bad price but which requires attending another mandatory presentation. As part of the deal, they will enroll your resale weeks (at least those purchased -pre-6/10/2010) in the Destination Club for free.

Depending on your situation, this can be very valuable (Marriott officially charges about $2,400 for this).
 

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We did a Marriott presentation last week.

Our "hot tip" is that after you survive the closer, the person who will then meet with you to check you out and give your your Marriott point certificate will try to sell you an explorer package -- a timeshare stay at a not-too-bad price but which requires attending another mandatory presentation. As part of the deal, they will enroll your resale weeks (at least those purchased -pre-6/10/2010) in the Destination Club for free.

Depending on your situation, this can be very valuable (Marriott officially charges about $2,400 for this).

The price for the Explorer package is $1195 and u just have to give them $195 deposit. Balance can be paid $100 per month for 10 months (no interest). We bought it since we were on the fence about enrolling r 3 weeks to save on II fees. Have no intention of buying DC points so the return presentation is required but unfortunately will be a waste of time for all parties.
 

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Tacky? :hysterical:

Compared to the lack of good taste, style, dowdiness, and cheap showiness of the salesperson who wants to extend the presentation past the time promised?

An alarm is pure professionalism, and class. :)

Tacky? Absolutely. I have been to bad presentations and to very professional ones. And only a few have gone beyond 90 minutes, usually as much because of us as because of the sales person. Planning to be an ass at a presentation before it even starts is VERY tacky.
 

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While an alarm clock on the desk might be a little tacky, I see no reason to set your wrist watch or phone to remind you when the 90 minutes are up. I find going in with a bad attitude usually is cause for a bad experience. We try to go in positive and listen, try not to show too much interest and it is usually pretty painless. Though wee have had some presentations that didn't start out well, usually because the rep saw either that we bought resale or they saw that we attend a lot of presentations without buying.
 

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We're at Marriott Newport Coast and decided to attend the owner's meeting. They gave us two tix for Disney as incentive.

Any tips for attending? They said it would be 90 mins and I don't want to stay longer than that.
How about that sunset tonight, took this from Newport bluffs looking out at Catalina.

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Tacky? Absolutely. I have been to bad presentations and to very professional ones. And only a few have gone beyond 90 minutes, usually as much because of us as because of the sales person. Planning to be an ass at a presentation before it even starts is VERY tacky.
Who suggested that someone should plan to be an ass at a presentation? I missed that post. Was it moderated?

Or are you suggesting that someone setting an alarm to remind them that the 90 minutes will be up soon is being an ass, so TACKY now =ASS???
 
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