I called the Exit department last summer, when I was working on buying a MOW week. I was working with the resale department at the time, and they were a joke, since they strung me along for a while saying they had MOW, but they didn't. When we first started the conversation, I told them I wanted to make a deal where I gave them MFV for some compensation, which I knew would be low, and then we work that into the purchase of MOW. Obviously didn't happen. I was then at MOW, went to a presentation, and suggested the same. They told me it would have to be 2 transactions, and I would have to call Marriott myself for the buy-back part. I didn't do any transaction with Marriott directly. I bought 3rd party resale.
When I did call the Exit dept., here's what they offered me.
For my MFV Platinum, they offered me, "The 'opportunity' to deed the unit back to them." I would get $0 from the transaction. They said "We see no value in MFV, so we would not even try to sell it for you. We would simply turn it into destination points and resell it."
So then I said, out of curiosity, what would you do for my Aruba Surf Club Gold week. They said they have so much inventory that they could not even offer to sell it at that time, but I could be added to a waiting list to get onto the sales list. I told them to add me to the wait list for the wait list. It's been about 9 months now, and I have not been contacted to have my unit added to their sales list. I have no intention of actually doing that, I just asked them to add me to the wait list to see how long it would take to get to me.