I can say we are at the exact same spent amount.
I guess I didnt write clearly: I have 559,000 SO's .... and I agree that is alot and I don't actually need that many NOW. So, those were our plans for the current time on using them. The extra options we plan on using in our later years. In the meantime, we will either rent or save up as points.
Are you planning on using all your SO's or locations each year?
Do you also have about 15 years till retirement? .....Do I remember correctly did you just get married?
What do you mean by "same spent amount"? Is this a per SO cost? Or total cost??? - I am not following...
You said that you bought 4 weeks at 81K SOs per week (324K SOs) - whether SVO or resale - you (logically) would have had to requalify those weeks with SVO weeks, or have other resale weeks (that would be requalified with SVO weeks). In order to obtain an additional 235K SOs (~3 additional 81K SO weeks) - four of these weeks would have had to be bought through SVO.
I do know that if one wanted to achieve this many SOs by buying resale and requalifying - the best way would be to buy 148.1K SOs weeks (resale) as cheaply as possible and requalify with the cheapest SVO week as possible. What is the cheapest SVO week? I was interested in this (speculative only)after our WKORV Owners update and was thinking about the requailfying aspect. For example - buy Cancun from SVO and requalifying our WKORV. But still - we would have to buy at least 3 more SVO weeks to get close to 559K SOs. (and not worthwhile to requalify WSJ since it only has 67.1K SOs)
For us - we bought OF WKORV knowingly for a $20K premium (compared to OV), but we wanted Maui and OF - and there is a uniqueness about this particular unit - 25ft Lanai/corner/large studio w/Lanai (there are only 24 of these).
The WSJ was a eBay bargain - and we wanted to own there, but of course paid a premium on a SO per dollar basis (compared to buying something like VV - which we would not buy) - but if we wanted we could sell for much more than we paid. Both of these (WKORV and WSJ) can be rented for well over MFs, but we don't plan to (the WKORV OF is likely still a losing investment because of the lost on potential alternate investment due to the premium). We would actually buy another WSJ if we can fom the seller who sold us their other week for the same great price. (because 2 weeks in STJ at WSJ is better than one)
For the WKV (81K SO) - that was for either SVN exhanging or staying - we live within driving distance, parents live close by (for now) - Spring Training, but with 81K SOs we are thinking exchanging into Maui or Princeville We could likely sell this for what we paid (incl closing). We also plan to potentially use our WKORV studio for exchange or rent (rent would get our MFs back).
We are planning on using our weeks every year (3-4 weeks - depending) - so we certainly don't need the SO rollover to StarPoints (thus resale). We did just get married, but 2nd for both of us - we are likely about 10 years away if our stock continues up (15 if not).
So.. I was curious about your chronilogical purchasing of SVO and SVO resale weeks - and what your total cost was (not considering the rent back value) - if you don't want to share - that's understandable.
, but they most likely would take your "low" purchase price, if they would consider it at all, and then go up from there. So suppose someone was serious enough to ask, they might say, if you paid $32K for a WKORV OV and wanted a $69K WKORV-N OF, you'd need to pay them $37K. I haven't heard of anyone trying this since the price to upgrade would be very high. If anyone has tried it, post your results here 
