Originally Posted by
GUWonder
Let’s not be like ostriches burying their head in the sand, as we ought to know that Marriott needs to try to make the “loyalty” program operations more profitable for itself and will try to do so at the expense of its customers too. In other words, devaluation for customers in the main.
Yeah, time to wake up Marriott side members. Huge devalue and a double whammy this year with the annual category creep just passed. If a middle of the road (and hard to find/use) Cat 5 was 25k and now 35k, how is this not huge? With bigger than 5,000 gaps between the levels? Watch for all RC's to be Cat 8, Marriott existing Cat 9's to go to Cat 7 or 8 for a year then creep right up again.
Good thing as the average "MR elite will earn 20% more points and the average SPG elite 67%" per the doublespeak presentation. Going to need them. But it massively devalued any existing point balances...