Originally Posted by Starwood Lurker
>I can assure you that we appreciate everyone's business and their votes, but we had to limit this year's "Thank You" to the ranks of current Platinum members.
Sincerely,
William R. Sanders
Customer Service Coordinator
Starwood Preferred Services
Mr. Sanders, I'm curious: why did you have "to limit this year's "Thank You" to the ranks of current Platinum members", when last year's thank you was extended to Gold members as well? It can't be all of the new freebie Gold's, because they don't have enough points to cash in yet. Is there some other justification? Based on the vote totals, many many non-Platinum SPG members (including me) were contributors to the awards that only Platinum members are being thanked for.