Originally Posted by
longing4piedmont
Your analogy does not work. Marriott has not ask for you to give anything back nor have they asked you to give anything up. If you want to the perks of the status, earn the status..... Anything is else is very false sense of entitlement.
I sincerely disagree with your earlier analogy either. My 48 stays with Marriott were not equivalent, in any fashion, to finding a $100 bill on the street.
Once again, I iterate that I do not mind being retained back to Silver this year because I am cognizant of the fact that I did not earn enough nights.