HELP! I need 566 points ASAP...
May 21, 2010 | 6:52 pm
#16
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Another option is to just pay for the room this time. Then you'll earn some points and have enough next time for the free stay in a category 6 room.
Then your $$ will have some redeeming value instead of just buying points.
Then your $$ will have some redeeming value instead of just buying points.
May 21, 2010 | 6:57 pm
#17
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I can't see any redeeming value in this discussion... 
May 21, 2010 | 10:47 pm
#18
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1. I can't believe you are complaining about some redemption value for $12.50
2. there seems to be a real redemptive value here where the 1000 points you receive qualifies you for a decent award; without the $12.50 you don't get the award
3. you wait till the last minute, shell out the coin, its twelve freakin fifty for cripes sake
2. there seems to be a real redemptive value here where the 1000 points you receive qualifies you for a decent award; without the $12.50 you don't get the award
3. you wait till the last minute, shell out the coin, its twelve freakin fifty for cripes sake
May 22, 2010 | 10:18 am
#19
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1. I can't believe you are complaining about some redemption value for $12.50
2. there seems to be a real redemptive value here where the 1000 points you receive qualifies you for a decent award; without the $12.50 you don't get the award
3. you wait till the last minute, shell out the coin, its twelve freakin fifty for cripes sake
2. there seems to be a real redemptive value here where the 1000 points you receive qualifies you for a decent award; without the $12.50 you don't get the award
3. you wait till the last minute, shell out the coin, its twelve freakin fifty for cripes sake
May 22, 2010 | 10:24 am
#20
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Glad you could work something out.
BTW, was that a previously ordered award cert or a cert received from a Chase Visa card?
BTW, was that a previously ordered award cert or a cert received from a Chase Visa card?
May 22, 2010 | 10:43 am
#21
Join Date: May 2009
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I wonder if they'll do that upon request, or if you have to be actually needing those points for an immediate redemption?? Makes it even sillier to redeem those 1-4 or 1-5 certs for anything other than the top end, if you can turn a 1-4 into enough points for a couple cat 1 or 2's.
May 22, 2010 | 10:52 am
#22
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That is why I asked where the cert came from. Marriott has always allowed persons to return award certs that were ordered. You can even return the hotel portion of a TP award for points, though you will only get a portion of the normal hotel award points back.
May 22, 2010 | 10:59 am
#23
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May 22, 2010 | 11:16 am
#24
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The answer depends on the amount of airline miles you ordered with the award. The more miles, the less you will get back. Check out post #4 in the http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/marri...l-package.html thread.
May 22, 2010 | 11:33 am
#25
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If seychellesbound had forgotten to cancel a 20K award cert., it would be called a straight Cat. 4. Given that seychellesbound called it a "free Cat. 1--4," I bet it was 1 of those from Visa or similar, which really surprises me because the T&Cs on those clearly say NO. I would expect that would be harder to fudge around than getting a hotel cashier to accept too many Bonus Bucks 
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Once I was a few 100s of points short of an award with some company, so I asked about buying 1000, so the rep. comped me the little I needed
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!Once I was a few 100s of points short of an award with some company, so I asked about buying 1000, so the rep. comped me the little I needed
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May 22, 2010 | 1:03 pm
#26
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1. I can't believe you are complaining about some redemption value for $12.50
2. there seems to be a real redemptive value here where the 1000 points you receive qualifies you for a decent award; without the $12.50 you don't get the award
3. you wait till the last minute, shell out the coin, its twelve freakin fifty for cripes sake
2. there seems to be a real redemptive value here where the 1000 points you receive qualifies you for a decent award; without the $12.50 you don't get the award
3. you wait till the last minute, shell out the coin, its twelve freakin fifty for cripes sake
I am very skeptical about this, unless there is some nugget of information that you did not tell us about, an oversight perhaps?
May 23, 2010 | 10:06 am
#27
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It was indeed the Chase Visa free night cert. Seems as if I the MR rep really bent the rules for me considering I haven't had a paid night at a Marriott in over 3 years! I'm a Hhonors Diamond (25 stays, 30 nights in 2010). Maybe the quality of service, ammenities, etc. will intice me to stay with Marriott more often.
May 24, 2010 | 4:50 am
#28
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I got 20000 points for an expired 1 night 1-4 award, as the t&cs said valid for 6 moths from 30 Nov 2009. When i tried to use it in Jan 2010 was told it expired 6 months after issue ( may 2009) luckily I had a copy of the t&cs and was offered the points.
May 24, 2010 | 7:13 am
#29
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I am not sure that I understand here, was it issued on 30 Nov 2009, or was it issued in May 2009? If it was expired, why did they give you 20,000 points?
May 24, 2010 | 8:07 am
#30
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It was indeed the Chase Visa free night cert. Seems as if I the MR rep really bent the rules for me considering I haven't had a paid night at a Marriott in over 3 years! I'm a Hhonors Diamond (25 stays, 30 nights in 2010). Maybe the quality of service, ammenities, etc. will intice me to stay with Marriott more often.
Cheers.
