Marriott Vacation Club International MVCI MVC will tell buying their time shares is good investment is not! Internet

We've been Marriott owners for about 15 years, now at Presidential level. I don't think it is all that good, but not completely bad. However, we have become disinchanted with Marriotts claims. Supposedly, we are supposed to have a personal contact person in owner services. Yet, usually when we call we get whoever is available and certainly the service varies. Really the maitaince fees pretty well cancel out any financial advantage. It is extremely diffiuclt to assess the promised services and well as time intensive. 

Try to use your resort points and reward points to put together a trip. You will get diffierent opinions about what you can and can't do. Luckily for us, the last person who sold us points went out of his way to cut through the ignorance and red tape. If you have a lot of time then you can put together a trip but you have to personally knowledable and have a depth of understanding about how the system works.

On our last trip to Maui we had a required meeting with the sales force and they convinced us to buy a 5 day stay with the idea that we 1) could likely extend it to 7 days and 2) if we we were prompt in following up then could add a second bedroom. Of course the cost was not a particular bargin but the promise was for prime time. As it turns out when we called, in the window specified, there was never any available weeks and were told they would call back with some openings. This, of course, never happened and finally we managed to get a 5 day stay scheduled, we were told we had we had to contact the main Marriott desk to extend it to 7 days and to add another bedroom. You can guess what happened. No availability, except in a hotel 23 miles away. This is Marriott, offer the world and produce little. We've had other problems over the years.

We are at the place that we are tired of dealing with them. If you check on the internet you will find weeks advertised for less than your cost of owning/maitiance fees and check on Ebay as there are a lot of weeks available. 

I wouldn't ever consider buying anything else from Marriott and unfortunately our initial enthusiasm led us to owning two resort weeks and some extra points. In general you can not believe what the sales reps tell you (I would agree that there are some exceptions ( as in our next to last sales rep) but how do you know). 

The units themselves are generally ok to good but, for example, the Maui property is definately showing it's age.

We probably will begin shedding ourselves of what has turned to be a disappointing experience. Of course, we won't ever get our money back except perhaps the one premium property we own. But we can book when and where we want without dealing with the Marriott bureaucracy. 

Buyer breware 

I agree.

John Scholar and Charlie Cavanaugh told us the same thing.

Very difficult to use the points. 

Not to mention the salesmen tell you that there is a buy back program in 3 years, so you can't lose if you don't like the program.

John Scholar and Charlie Cavanaugh told us about the 3 year program in the presence of another couple, Pam and Mark Stevens who can attest to the lie.

We called after three years and were told that there is no such program and never was such a program.

We were told by other people in the company, during numerous calls, that they don't know why the salesmen continue to tell people that there is a buy back program.( obviously, to sell product)

The people in this section of the Marriott company are aware of the tactics used by the salesmen but don't seem to care as long as product is sold.

Any consumers who have been victimized by their tactics can contact the lawsuite being initiated.

When we purchased our points from Marriott Vac Club, the salesmen

told us that if we didn't like our purchase in three years, Marroitt would 

by back the points.

Here it is....three years later.....no such program....never was such a program.

Absolute lies.

Thousands of International travelers, particularly from the US and Canada, have fallen victims of timeshare fraud while vacationing. Resort developers hire skilled salesmen to represent their timeshares as many different attractive packages, such as financial investments, deeded properties, or vacation clubs, just to increase their sales

It's easy to score 96% when you are in control of the research samples.

Timeshare User's Group has a posted survey from Marriott Owners, and although its a few years old, Marriott Vacation Club scores 44% in the one category of complete happiness and satisfaction.  Check it out!

Alejandro makes some good points on Marriott Vacation Club's Integrity. For new readers, when through here, go back up to the search engine field and type in "Marriott Vacation Club" to locate more reports on the club.

Timeshare fraud has been around since the timeshare idea was created, but they increase during poor economy. When times are difficult, timeshare owners are stuck with properties they can´t travel to or even afford. Desperate to recoup some money to pay for bills, they can easily become victims to scams artists pretending to be their timeshare salvation who will take upfront fees -as much as five number figures in some cases- but fail to fulfill their promise.

Vacations are a good opportunity to get out of the busy daily life and to spend quality time with our beloved ones, however, with the struggling economy; it is every time more difficult to find a destination that fits our budget and meet our needs.  In the effort to find economical ways to travel, fractional ownerships appear as an attractive vacation option.

The only reason Marriott does not respond to the question of the buyback price of their property is because they will skin you on it and pay only a small fraction of the original price, there is not two ways about it. This is a scam because the buyback price is what really tells you how much they are willing to pay for their property and is not even 15% of what they sell for. 

 Please Marriott, if you answer this rebutal tell us what is the average buyback price for your properties and what is the avergae sell price. Also how many rewards point is a Marriott room night now compared to 5 years or 10 years ago, becuase my Marriott Rewards point (per week exchanged) have not changed at the same rate.

 (Yes I have not find anyone willing to buy my property at a reasonable price)

A Marriott timeshare sales agreement is the contract that you get at the moment you purchase a fractional ownership. Most timeshare companies make them long and difficult to understand, so the buyer doesn’t know well what he is getting into, and the terms and conditions are especially made to benefit the resort, but not the owner. The timeshare sales agreement gives you the right to use the resort, during a certain number of years, for a specific number of weeks. That means that the developer still owns the resort, so your interest would not be considered as real estate. Also, it is very likely that most of the verbal promises told during the presentation are not in the contract, and many of the agreements have no cancellation policy.

I would like Marriott Vacation Club to please comment on the original poster's claim that Marriott is willing to buy back the timeshares only a small fraction of the original price.

While we are sorry to hear of this individual's frustration in securing reservations, our Owners consistently rate Marriott Vacations Worldwide at 96% satisfaction year after year.  Our partners at Interval International are also able to confirm more than 90% of the first choice reservation requests they receive.  While there will always be exceptions such as holiday weeks or weeks at resorts where owners pay a premium to own fixed vacation weeks, the program offers a lot of flexibility to trade for Marriott Reward points, exchange through Interval International or select from hundreds of Explorer vacation options.   While a guest can always stay at a hotel, our resorts offer 1, 2 and 3 bedroom luxury villas.  We encourage anyone who is having a problem securing a reservation to contact our customer care team at 800 936 6824 or via email at customer.care@vacationclub.com so that we can personally assist them.