- Joined
- Jul 19, 2007
- Messages
- 7,128
- Reaction score
- 1,886
- Points
- 599
- Location
- Carlsbad, CA
- Resorts Owned
- Marriott: Maui Ocean Club Lahaina Villas (3BRx5), Ko Olina, Shadow Ridge II, Willow Ridge, Aruba Ocean Club, DC Points HGVC: Flamingo, Sea World, I-Drive, Starwood Bella (x4), SDO, TradeWinds, Worldmark
All,
As many of you will recall, my wife and I are seeking to go to Aruba Ocean Club next February and I had placed various trade requests to experiment/probe with trading power and trading priority.
Please note the following trade requests (all seeking the same trade: a Studio at Aruba Ocean Club either of the first two weeks of February 2012)
1) Lock-off unit of our 3BR Week 24 at Maui Ocean Club (MM1) -- deposited into our legacy II in approx July 2010 for max trading power
2) Lock-off unit of our 3BR Week 25 at Maui Ocean Club (MM1) -- with a Request First in our Corporate II account (started in Dec 2010)
The initial reason we deposited the Week 24 into legacy II was to check to see if legacy II and Corporate II see the same population (they do -- I kept comparing Week 24 results to Week 25 results). Note that we also have our customary Worldmark 3BR float trade request in for Aruba in Feb 2012, which as TUGgers may recall, has recently hit Aruba Surf Club Studio's 4 times for Feb 2012, but I kept rejecting the trade as I sought Aruba Ocean Club.
The purpose of my trade experiment was to see if the DClub trade request (a trade entered later, so should have lower trading power) matched the Aruba Ocean Club before the legacy account. In theory it should not, but I'm always curious to prove these things for myself.
Well, the Worldmark just confirmed to Aruba Ocean Club for Feb 10 2012, prior to either of the two on-going Marriott requests with the identical date. The way Worldmark trades work is that you search with the largest unit possible (a 3BR) but II will only deduct the actual points required for the actual trade (Studio points).
But there is no way that Worldmark should have beaten the Marriott preference. I'm very familiar with Worldmark trades matching at 13 months, less 24 days, but I've never ever seen Worldmark beat the Marriott preference.
At this point, nothing surprises me anymore. And I suspect Interval International screwed up the Marriott preference when making the recent changes to preferences for DClub -- this could not at all be what was intended, and definitely contradicts the Terms and Conditions.
This confirms the variability around the Marriott preference -- I still don't think it's gone completely, but it's definitely not functioning as designed.
Best,
Greg
Edited to add: Room code is OVTG, so not a developer deposit
As many of you will recall, my wife and I are seeking to go to Aruba Ocean Club next February and I had placed various trade requests to experiment/probe with trading power and trading priority.
Please note the following trade requests (all seeking the same trade: a Studio at Aruba Ocean Club either of the first two weeks of February 2012)
1) Lock-off unit of our 3BR Week 24 at Maui Ocean Club (MM1) -- deposited into our legacy II in approx July 2010 for max trading power
2) Lock-off unit of our 3BR Week 25 at Maui Ocean Club (MM1) -- with a Request First in our Corporate II account (started in Dec 2010)
The initial reason we deposited the Week 24 into legacy II was to check to see if legacy II and Corporate II see the same population (they do -- I kept comparing Week 24 results to Week 25 results). Note that we also have our customary Worldmark 3BR float trade request in for Aruba in Feb 2012, which as TUGgers may recall, has recently hit Aruba Surf Club Studio's 4 times for Feb 2012, but I kept rejecting the trade as I sought Aruba Ocean Club.
The purpose of my trade experiment was to see if the DClub trade request (a trade entered later, so should have lower trading power) matched the Aruba Ocean Club before the legacy account. In theory it should not, but I'm always curious to prove these things for myself.
Well, the Worldmark just confirmed to Aruba Ocean Club for Feb 10 2012, prior to either of the two on-going Marriott requests with the identical date. The way Worldmark trades work is that you search with the largest unit possible (a 3BR) but II will only deduct the actual points required for the actual trade (Studio points).
But there is no way that Worldmark should have beaten the Marriott preference. I'm very familiar with Worldmark trades matching at 13 months, less 24 days, but I've never ever seen Worldmark beat the Marriott preference.
At this point, nothing surprises me anymore. And I suspect Interval International screwed up the Marriott preference when making the recent changes to preferences for DClub -- this could not at all be what was intended, and definitely contradicts the Terms and Conditions.
This confirms the variability around the Marriott preference -- I still don't think it's gone completely, but it's definitely not functioning as designed.
Best,
Greg
Edited to add: Room code is OVTG, so not a developer deposit
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