TUG people have discovered, by personal experience, that paying a timeshare company for points conversion is lots more expensive than buying a resale timeshare unit that's already converted.
Full Disclosure: Our 1BR eBay points timeshare cost us about $250. It came with free closing & free resort transfer. Before that, we had 3 different 2BR eBay points units in Vacation Village At Parkway at various times. Each of those cost us about $200. Those included free closing & free resort transfer, plus free points (i.e., paid-ahead maintenance fees). All of those are triennials, meaning the owner gets 1/3 of of their use-year points values every year. We pay the same use-year maintenance fees as everybody else, except that our use-year comes up only 1 year out of every 3. The triennial points unit that we have right now bills us every year for an estimated 1/3 of the use-year maintenance fee amount. Vacation Village At Parkway billed us the full amount in our use-years only & nothing in our off years. Not all eBay points units are triennials. Lots of'm are every-year timeshares & some are biennials. Any way you shake it, the cost via eBay is way less than what the timeshare company charges to convert what you already own.
-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.