Starwood Gold?

[Keep Traveling]

Do you become Starwood gold if you purchase resale SDO?

KT

 

[grgs]

Do you become Starwood gold if you purchase resale SDO?

No, but most Tuggers don't think Gold status is all that big a deal.

Glorian

 

[Ken555]

And lots of other ways to get gold.

 

[srjth]

And lots of other ways to get gold.

Would you mind telling how? I am interested.

 

[LisaRex]

Get an SPG Platinum Amex card (annual fee $65) and spend $30M per calendar year.

Get a Platinum AMEX (annual fee $450?) and SPG gold status is comped.

 

[spencersmama]

and spend $30M per calendar year.

$30,000? I thought 30M = $30,000,000. I think I could charge 30 mil in a year, I just wouldn't have a way to pay the charges off!

 

[LisaRex]

I work with budgets. In finance, "M" = $1000 and "MM" = $1,000,000.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/thousand

"K" (short for "kilo") can also be used to mean thousand, but the last time I used "k," THAT caused confusion. So now I stick to "M" and "MM."

 

[jarta]

Not universally accepted:

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/60697.html

http://www.writingservices.eu/Abbreviations-HowToWriteThem.htm

http://www.allbusiness.com/glossaries/k/4958136-1.html

 

[Henry M.]

I'm from the technical world, and M usually means million, k thousands. Even in high school, my children learned about various prefixes for numbers (kilo, mega, giga, etc).

I've rarely run into M for 1,000. I've seen it, but only a couple of times. While studying for my MBA, I didn't see M or MM used much. In this case, context helped me understand. Ín my company, reports spell it out - "$ in thousands", or "in millions of $".

I guess what is common depends on the circles you live in.

Henry

 

[hypnotiq]

The only people Ive found to use M and MM are people who work in finance, and even then its few and far between.

 

[spencersmama]

I'm from the technical world, and M usually means million, k thousands.

Me, too. I inferred what you meant, I had just never seen thousands represented by an M.

 

[lorenmd]

on the subject of spg status. if i am spg platinum, and i traded into wkorv through II and the II account is in my husband's name and the spg platinum is in my name, should i call wkorv and give them my platinum number before i check in or does it matter not. thanks

 

[Ken555]

on the subject of spg status. if i am spg platinum, and i traded into wkorv through II and the II account is in my husband's name and the spg platinum is in my name, should i call wkorv and give them my platinum number before i check in or does it matter not. thanks

It matters not. However, when you check in, give them your number so you get points for anything you spend while at the resort.

 

[lorenmd]

thanks. and i suppose i don't get stay credits do I

 

[megan_rose5]

No doubt

Me and my family has been there last summer last year and our vacation is a blast!

 

[YYJMSP]

thanks. and i suppose i don't get stay credits do I

Nope.

You only get SPG stay/night credits if you book a room by the night using StarPoints (hotel currency), cash directly through Starwood hotels channels, or some combination thereof.

This rules out any booking based on home resort, StarOptions (timeshare currency), directly/indirectly through an owner, through a non-Starwood hotels channel, or external exchange.