I knew I should have set a snipe!

Bigrob · Nov 9, 2015

Congrats Ron. Great Pick-up.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/111810542578?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

vacationhopeful · Nov 9, 2015

Great buy!

I spent about double for my 1MM points contract! Yes, I sniped that one.

Bigrob · Nov 9, 2015

Bigrob said:
Congrats Ron. Great Pick-up.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/111810542578?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

I see you got the Smokies contract too.

ronparise · Nov 10, 2015

There were three that went off tonight. All Sumday and all within a few seconds of each other I set fairly low snipes on all three, and was surprised to win anything. Much less 2 for the prices I got them for

I think bidders stayed away from the million points because the 2016 points are gone.

ronparise · Nov 10, 2015

ronparise said:
There were three that went off tonight. All Sumday and all within a few seconds of each other I set fairly low snipes on all three, and was surprised to win anything. Much less 2 for the prices I got them for

I think bidders stayed away from the million points because the 2016 points are gone.

So heres what the ebay ad said:

2016 USAGE TO THE NEW OWNER

1,001,000 Wyndham Points

Allocated October 1, 2016

Annual Use Beginning 2016

I read this to say the next points are the points allocated in Oct 2016 and that there are no points until then. Based on what I know about the Wyndham system these would be the 2017 points>

I bid with that in mind (no 2016 points in the contract), and I assume others read it the same way (otherwise why didnt anyone bid more than $500 for a million point contract. This contract with 2016 points would be worth $3000 to $5000 to me and just a few months ago would have sold for $10000. In any case my snipe was for $2500 and I got it for $510 plus $300 to close> pretty good deal

I just got off the phone with Sumday and he read the estopple to me
900000 2016k points available now

So better than I had hoped.

herillc · Nov 10, 2015

wow, great deal!

Sugarcubesea · Nov 10, 2015

Ron, Congrats that is awesome that you got some points to use now…woot

ronparise said:
So heres what the ebay ad said:

2016 USAGE TO THE NEW OWNER

1,001,000 Wyndham Points

Allocated October 1, 2016

Annual Use Beginning 2016

I read this to say the next points are the points allocated in Oct 2016 and that there are no points until then. Based on what I know about the Wyndham system these would be the 2017 points>

I bid with that in mind (no 2016 points in the contract), and I assume others read it the same way (otherwise why didnt anyone bid more than $500 for a million point contract. This contract with 2016 points would be worth $3000 to $5000 to me and just a few months ago would have sold for $10000. In any case my snipe was for $2500 and I got it for $510 plus $300 to close> pretty good deal

I just got off the phone with Sumday and he read the estopple to me
900000 2016k points available now

So better than I had hoped.

Bigrob · Nov 10, 2015

ronparise said:
So heres what the ebay ad said:

2016 USAGE TO THE NEW OWNER

1,001,000 Wyndham Points

Allocated October 1, 2016

Annual Use Beginning 2016

I read this to say the next points are the points allocated in Oct 2016 and that there are no points until then. Based on what I know about the Wyndham system these would be the 2017 points>

I bid with that in mind (no 2016 points in the contract), and I assume others read it the same way (otherwise why didnt anyone bid more than $500 for a million point contract. This contract with 2016 points would be worth $3000 to $5000 to me and just a few months ago would have sold for $10000. In any case my snipe was for $2500 and I got it for $510 plus $300 to close> pretty good deal

I just got off the phone with Sumday and he read the estopple to me
900000 2016k points available now

So better than I had hoped.

Awesome. It was a good day for you.

Myxdvz · Nov 10, 2015

Great buy! I think my 500K is more than enough for us (have even ended up depositing some to RCI hoping for DVC) and would love to make some money renting --

But, reading here and seeing all of you with million++ points AND VIP status -- I don't think anyone can compete rentals without a VIP status. So, I just have it in my head that if I need some Wyndham reservations, I will ping you Ron

ronparise · Nov 10, 2015

Myxdvz said:
Great buy! I think my 500K is more than enough for us (have even ended up depositing some to RCI hoping for DVC) and would love to make some money renting --

But, reading here and seeing all of you with million++ points AND VIP status -- I don't think anyone can compete rentals without a VIP status. So, I just have it in my head that if I need some Wyndham reservations, I will ping you Ron

It was just 5 years ago that I bought my first Wyndham points and pissed off my wife. She couldnt understand why I would take on another monthly obligation, especially with out telling her.

She then gave me my orders..... "you better figure out a way to rent this S*#%.." So I did.

So I owe it all to my wife

ronparise · Nov 10, 2015

Bigrob said:
Awesome. It was a good day for you.

It was a good day.. did a couple of rentals to pay for it too

T-Dot-Traveller · Nov 10, 2015

Owe it all to wife

ronparise said:
It was just 5 years ago that I bought my first Wyndham points and pissed off my wife. She couldnt understand why I would take on another monthly obligation, especially with out telling her.

She then gave me my orders..... "you better figure out a way to rent this S*#%.." So I did.

So I owe it all to my wife

.

Don' t we all ----- sooner or later ...

a couple of years ago I was reading a year end newspaper investment column .
The number one way to keep your investment portfolio growing - do not get divorced.

Don40 · Nov 11, 2015

Not getting divorced is worth millions. Best advice you can give someone. :clap:

ziravan · Nov 16, 2015

I didn't set a snipe

I was very surprised that I won an auction for 161,000 Cypress Palms points for $102.50 with closing costs paid last week:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/221933188611?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

That's $0.64/1000 points.

Oh. And after lurking for some time, I finally set up a TUG account. This is my first post! Now to find out how to get a TUG T-shirt!

vacationhopeful · Nov 16, 2015

ziravan-

Got to love a lurker who has a BIG resume and BRAGS on their first post about stealing a decent eBay deal. Go find THAT TUG tee-shirt!

You got GAME, Girl(friend)!

Jason245 · Nov 16, 2015

Don40 said:
Not getting divorced is worth millions. Best advice you can give someone.

Not getting married is probably worth tens of millions. .

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ziravan · Nov 16, 2015

vacationhopeful said:
ziravan-

Got to love a lurker who has a BIG resume and BRAGS on their first post about sniping and stealing a decent eBay deal.

You got GAME, Girl(friend)!

LOL. If it helps, I helped talk a recent DVC buyer into rescinding and buying resale on another site...

And I didn't snipe it, I set my price hours before.

vacationhopeful · Nov 16, 2015

ziravan said:
LOL. If it helps, I helped talk a recent DVC buyer into rescinding and buying resale on another site...

That is very hard to do ... the DVC Koolaid is very sweet and alluring.

ziravan · Nov 16, 2015

vacationhopeful said:
That is very hard to do ... the DVC Koolaid is very sweet and alluring.

Yes it is. But the difference between Poly retail and AKV resale is huge.

I knew I should have set a snipe!

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