Perry, that's a fundamental difference in the way you look at it and the way I do. While Marriott is changing the landscape going forward, they are not changing the nature of what one bought. While it's like that non guaranteed options will change, they will not go away completely. Those families will likely have the opportunity to chose their path, worst case scenario is they stay where they are, use their week and exchange without the internal trading preference. I think that's the difference in that I don't see this as a problem and you do. I'm betting they do a lot better job in the transition than I remember FF did.
It means you can still use what you bought and still exchange it, nothing has changed in principle. Perry you've been around long enough to know that things change all the time with timeshares and if I'm not mistaken, there were rumors of Marriott changes and an internal exchange system on TUG prior to when you bought your current week. Didn't you sell your prior weeks in part because you were unhappy with Marriott? This is sounding more and more like sour grapes on your part and you only have one week to worry about. I have 9, all but one of which were resale though 2 of those that were resale are now considered by Marriott as retail purchases. My risk and my skin in the game is infinitely more than most and therefore if the choices are poor, I'll be affected more than most.
or that IS your point 
As I noted previously, I essentially only exchange the Marriott weeks to other Marriott's, I can't think of an exception off hand. Of my 9 weeks I have five I never plan to exchange, 1 I exchange rarely, 1 I will likely exchange about half of the time and 2 lockoff weeks that are exclusively for exchanging. I think it will be a wash as long as the internal trading preference remains in tact in that there will be less deposits and less other Marriott owners looking for them. I wouldn't be surprised if the % of success for higher demand options actually went up instead of down.
June 20th - well, pretty close to the 16th and 18th of prior speculations....and interesting that he says we'll all get notification of some sort!! Wonder if it will be a very vague - "talk to your salesrep" or have a few specifics with a "talk to your salesrep..."
First, I've stated that where you exchange to is not part of the official equation even though you have made it so in your own mind. However Perry taking your example and for simplicity, assume you only exchanging back to your home resort. Lets further assume that the same % of people will exchange in each group as would have without any change and that there are no changes in the internal exchange rules. If half the members in a given season convert, you'll have roughly half the number of potential units to exchange to but roughlyl half the competition. The same applies to reservations. In reality each resort has more than 2 segments. You've got view types, seasons, resale vs retail, lockoff's. This adds a complexity to management but not really to usage, reserving or exchanging.
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On second thought...Perry's defense might be: "Just remember that if you ignore the man, you'll get hoodwinked by the almighty powerful OZ, so am not sure that was the the intention of your funny
Due to the convolutions of this crazy thread, I am somewhat confused as to who is behind each horse in this race. Well, pretty sure what horse Perry is betting on, although I believe he is really hoping his horse isn't the winner as we'll all lose in that case. I haven't figured out where I am, just am believing in a third, middle horse and have the naivety/faith to think that none of the jockeys intends to cheat. They'll definitely do their best to win money for their owners as that is their job.
Let's add another reference here for fun...will we find ourselves in a Catch-22 with the new roll-out?
Perry, as I said much earlier, if I felt that Marriott weren't going to play reasonably fair in this, I'd sell. If you're really stressing as much as the stress comes through in your posts, it's simply not worth it, sell. My expectations are that they will try to entice us with additional options we don't have now or that will be different but that our reservation and usage options will be fair in most people's eyes. Given your posts, I don't think they could make any changes at all and make you happy. They will know there will be a group of owners that will not be happy with the changes no matter what. In many ways they've likely already written that group off. Get ready for the patronizing discussions and emails to those in that group as Marriott has made up their mind as to what change they are going to do whether you or I approve or not.
I think I said before, I think there's a good chance you'll actually like the product they roll out and it's unlikely you'll lose much or anything you have now. The only question in my mind is whether or not you'll like how to get from here to there and my guess is you will not like it because it will involve money.
