Who going to post "I got shafted on selling?"
You keep saying that but the reports from SELLERS - not many of which hang around to report once they get burned - show a different result. IF they were lucky enough to find a sucker who believed the ROFR nonsense they may have gotten close to the "magic" ROFR number. But most didn't. They got the low price they had to ask to attract an interested buyer, then Marriott snatched it AT THE LOW PRICE and they slink away burned by the process. They don't bother posting a message saying "we got zip" for our unit that Marriott turned around and resold for their going rate.
You are hanging on to a false sense of value supported by a house of cards pitched by the very group (timeshare sales weasels) that got you to buy into a full price purchase to begin with! If/when your day comes to sell you will, unfortunately, find out that all you'll get is whatever the highest price a real market buyer will offer - ROFR or not - and then its too late to argue this anymore. I doubt you'll bother to post the low sale price either and I won't blame you if you don't. In the meantime it's fine if you want to think your price is protected by ROFR but anyone that looks at the system as an outsider with no stake in the outcome knows its not.
You said yourself that since Marriott has stopped exercising ROFR that resale prices have fallen. That means that when Marriott was exercising ROFR the SELLER was getting a higher price than they currently are with Marriott not exercising ROFR. Its very simple and you gave the example yourself. When exercised ROFR gives sellers higher prices. When it is stopped prices fall resulting in lower prices.
Think about it. A few months ago Marriott was exercising ROFR and a seller could get expect to get 10K for most annual two bedroom platinum units. Marriott stops exercising ROFR and some of these same units have gotten sellers thousands less. The economy is also to blame but obviously ROFR not being used is a big part of it as well.
With Marriott prices so low without ROFR being exercised you could just admit you were mistaken about ROFR and move on.
You keep saying that but the reports from SELLERS - not many of which hang around to report once they get burned - show a different result. IF they were lucky enough to find a sucker who believed the ROFR nonsense they may have gotten close to the "magic" ROFR number. But most didn't. They got the low price they had to ask to attract an interested buyer, then Marriott snatched it AT THE LOW PRICE and they slink away burned by the process. They don't bother posting a message saying "we got zip" for our unit that Marriott turned around and resold for their going rate.
You are hanging on to a false sense of value supported by a house of cards pitched by the very group (timeshare sales weasels) that got you to buy into a full price purchase to begin with! If/when your day comes to sell you will, unfortunately, find out that all you'll get is whatever the highest price a real market buyer will offer - ROFR or not - and then its too late to argue this anymore. I doubt you'll bother to post the low sale price either and I won't blame you if you don't. In the meantime it's fine if you want to think your price is protected by ROFR but anyone that looks at the system as an outsider with no stake in the outcome knows its not.