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Re: Ripoff - Marriott Vacation Club Destinations Program - New Point System (by Charles S.):
As far as losing your points are concerned. With the DC program you need to do some planning by June 30th as to if you are going to use the points program or not. If you are not planning to use them by midyear, then it would be wise to save them to the following year. So if you are allotted 7000 points every year, and you don't plan to use them for 2012, then by June 30th you need to roll them over to 2013 and you will have 14,000 points in 2013. However, you must use you 2012 points by the end of 2013 or you will then lose them. If you are not sure how you will use those 2012 points for 2013, you can also elect to still place them in II, trade them for MRP's, or take a cruise or tour with them. That's the flexibilty and options people are referring to. If you wanted to take a really big trip you could save your 2012 points to 2013 giving you 14,000 points, and then borrow from 2014 points to now have 21,000 points and have a heck of a year celebrating that retirement in 2013.
Read your materials or go to the website and learn to enjoy your membership. If all of this still does not work for you. Then just use your membership as you always have. The DC program is way too new to have an immediate impact on legacy owners. It's very expensive to get to Hawaii if you only buy 2,000 or 3,000 points. People don't have $20,000 or $30,000 to just give to Marriott right now. You may have the best time of your life right now taking advantage of the DC program because you will be in a great position.