Originally Posted by Happy

You got it wrong. Marriott has NOT had a strategy yet. At least not any one that has been made public. So what you said the corporation would change its strategy is not even close to any fact.

The FACT IS, at least up to this moment, Mazrriott has NOT yet adopted a stragegy to handle this conversion. It has several options of which we do not know which direction the corporation would take. Options we can speculate based on some logic and assumption. Still NONE of them is a "known" "strategy". Hence your comment is off base.

On the other hand, Marriott definitely monitor these boards. If it sees many are making speculation trying to "Make a Huge Win" on the upcoming conversion, Yes, the corporate would take it into consideration on WHICH option it will take.

FYI, the very same blogger has written articles on how to become Marriott P / PPE after August 1st. He wrote about it again last week, as a "reminder". One of the methods he wrote about. was to sign up the Challenges. Guess what? Shortly after this latest article was published, his readers reported that Marriott no longer let people sign up Challenge... Co-incident? I think not.

We have seen what "deals" have been killed by this particular blogger in the past... Off the top of my head, the tout of everything 5x with the Chase Ink business card when there was no cap no restriction on what to buy at office supply stores... the tout of getting 7 BofA credit cards to pursuit a Million Points vacation redemption at the Richard Bronson's private island... Of course, such "deals" died shortly after the touts.