Most FTers have no idea what you're talking about. The gist is that after purchasing a minimum of 4 timeshares, the major benefit is Starwood Platinum status - for life!

Seemed to only work when the timeshares were purchased from Starwood but some have discovered that if they already own a resale week, they can get Starwood to "requalify" it when a new developer week is purchased, thus allowing people to reach that high level for much, much less money.

There is NO CHANCE that Starwood didn't know exactly what they were doing. Somehow, rather than decide that the technique was at least pushing some sales during an awful economy, they feel that it was hurting their bottom line. So they did the unthinkable and changed it without notice. That means that some people purchased a resale they might not have needed and are waiting for the deed to be recorded so they can now buy the developer week and have it requalified. And Starwood gave them no notice. Look at some of the other threads in this forum and you will see that concern for their customers has not been their strong suit lately. Hope I'm wrong but I see no chance they will change their course or allow any exceptions. That said - good luck.