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You made a legitimate purchase of points. You are a new owner to a program that is very different from many who have owned Marriott timeshares for at least two years or longer. You were sold points to stay at various resorts, use hotels, and to have access to tours and cruises, etc. Your 6500 points are fine. However, many of thepeople that you will hear complaning on this site and others are owners within the weeks system. We did not have points like you do, but we stayed at a week at a time. We could not use a certain amount of days for a certain amount of points with Marriott. The weeks owners, also called legacy owners, have the option of adding our week to a specific property to the points program if we would like to. We don't have to join, but we can add the points program as an option. There are differences between the two programs and some of us old timeshare owners don't like the change. Some of us feel that eventually points owners like yourself will have advantages over getting into Marriott properties other than our own property and maybe in time advantages to our own properties. With 6500 points you should be able to get into any of the Marriott properties in the system. Our only thoughts as older owners would be that you have paid over $65,000 to do what we once could do for less than $30,000 if you bought from Marriott and for less than $10,000 if you bought resale. The discussions posted here would not apply to a new owner of points. This is just old folks fussing. :-)