Originally Posted by
mk712
Here's another way to look at this: how much would the package that you received through the conversion cost you if you were to buy it today, compared to how much you paid for it before the conversion?
Here's a quick chart I made in 2 minutes. For simplicity's sake I used the 100k packages since the 120k packages don't exist anymore, but that works to your advantage since the extra 20k miles only cost you 20k Marriott points.
So regardless of which package you received, if you were to buy that same package today you would be paying at the very least 50k more points.
Of course you can argue that the new packages aren't as good of a deal and you wouldn't have bought them at today's prices, but my point is that instead of worrying about how much better the conversion could have been, you should be content that you bought one of the old packages while it was still possible to do so because all of them were a better deal than what you'll get from now on.
This! Sure Marriott maybe could have done things a bit differently, and in the end I have a feeling that they’ll refund the 30k point differences, but they could have easily stopped selling the legacy travel package certificates when they announced they were going to raise the prices. In which case I’m sure people would have complained. Threatening to move hotel chains completely, class actions, etc. seems way over the top considering anyone that bought a TP since it was announced they were changing is getting a significantly better deal than someone who were to buy a new TP today, just maybe not as much of a better deal as they thought. First world problems for sure.
I think the only people that have legitimate complaints are those that bought the TP’s prior to the announcement of the changes to TP costs in the new program. And I’m sure that number is FAR less than the number of people that bought them since, fueled by blogger and forum hysteria.