I hesitate to mention that trading to a lower maintenance fee resort will lower your maintenance fees because your upfront costs will eat into those savings. Unless your resort is $10 per 1,000 and you are trading for some less then $4 per 1,000, you likely will never see a return on your upfront costs in the form of maintenance fee savings. In my case, I needed to buy retail to enroll another PIC. I got 110,000 because that’s how many I needed to buy to get to Gold. The equity trade was free, so I took the opportunity to trade to a lower maintenance fee resort. I couldn’t get Canterbury or Bali Hai through telesales, but I could get National Harbor. If it would have cost me extra to do the trade, I never would have done it. If someone wants to buy, to up their level of VIP or enroll a PIC, then they should definitely consider trading for a lower maintenance fee resort if it’s free and they don’t need ARP at their current home resort.
Because I did an equity trade, I could not get bonus points. I was ok with that. I still got a $1,500 cash rebate.
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