WSJ Sales presentation (retro / requalify)

[ljmiii]

Attended a WSJ sales presentation yesterday. It was reasonably nice and unlike some of the reports I've seen of other locations the salesfolk were honest (except for the exaggeration that owners will be able to "get into Hyatt soon").

They had a bit more inventory than they had last year - in particular they had a couple of Diamond Oceanfront fixed weeks in Sunset Bay buildings 10 and 16. They are unable to enroll MVC weeks but they did offer to requalify my resale WSJ weeks. Theoretically, they are only allowed to requalify one week for each week purchased but he made it clear that if I bought an every year Diamond deed at Coral Vista (for $65K) they would do both of my EOYO weeks and if I bought the fixed EOYO OF week at Sunset Bay (for $48K) he could make it happen.

They did say that MVW is paying for the coming WSJ common area renovations (which I knew from last week's Owner's Meeting)...and then went on to say that MVW is doing so by renting out stays at the WSJ through the Marriott hotel website (no idea how true that is).

 

[Eric B]

Theoretically, they are only allowed to requalify one week for each week purchased

That doesn't match my experience with what the requalification guidelines have been. In fact, when I did my last one they actually showed me the memo on the subject from the Vistana side of the corporate management and it confirmed the continuation of the $10K for one requal plus $5K for each additional requal thresholds. This was a few years ago but I haven't heard anything to contradict that. In fact, when we went through an update at WSJ they offered to requalify all 3 of my Virgin Grand weeks with a purchase (what a deal - I would be able to convert them to Bonvoy points in addition to everything I can already do).

 

[ljmiii]

That doesn't match my experience with what the requalification guidelines have been. In fact, when I did my last one they actually showed me the memo on the subject from the Vistana side of the corporate management and it confirmed the continuation of the $10K for one requal plus $5K for each additional requal thresholds.

As it happens, they said they don't offer the Westin Flex product at the WSJ. I assume because there are no WSJ deeds in that trust...but I have no way of knowing. I can tell you that when I said I wasn't interested in buying at that price they asked if I would be interested in an October deed or the Virgin Grand.

But in any case both the $65K and $48K deeds were well over the $15K threshold....and suggest why he was fairly certain he could requalify both my deeds even if all I was buying was one EOYO deed.

 

[Eric B]

They said they just got authorization to sell MVC Club Points, but what they were trying to sell us was weeks at WSJ. They did have some week 52 VGVs that were kind of tempting but my week 51 is a Sunday check in and they didn't have any of those. IIRC, last year they were also selling Aventuras at WSJ - they stopped doing that because they're selling Club Points.