Hindsight is 20/20 & I bet your glad you avoided the VIP itch.
I would guess the most restrictive ARP would prevail. But if they are both the same ARP, as of right now Wyndham has not stated they are stripping that from the resale points. I think were they to do that they would have bigger problems on their hands as that has always been a contractual right not a perk.
I would suggest that all VIPs with resale deposit those points before august.
Thank you I have been telling people on here since the new website that buckets still exist and you JUST DON'T SEE THEM!I'll try to give you some sense of relief as requested. The reality is this. The points buckets have existed within the back office systems for a long time now. These points buckets simply haven't been exposed to the front office website. So the good news is that most the core functionalities for the points buckets - those are a known quantity and changes to the back office systems shouldn't be necessary - or somewhat minimal when compared to the front office changes. The bad news is that the logic for processing resale reservations separately likely either didn't exist or must be changed as a result of the recently announced changes. That said, the overall the changes to how the reservation components work isn't rocket science. As long as the logic is programmed correctly - making net new reservations after mid-August when these changes are moved into production - I expect we'll see some bugs as always - but it should work for the majority of use cases from the outset. That said, I'd expect Wyndham TUG owners to fair worse than most normal owners - since many Wyndham TUG owner accounts - especially those who fall into the commercial rental business bucket - are far from normal accounts and are outliers by definition. Expect problems if you have millions of points, hundreds of transactions, dozens or hundreds of GC/HK/RT activities. Just one man's opinion.
The bigger change that I'd be more concerned about is the points adjustments based upon account audits that have been announced. Essentially they are doing an account audit for the current use year for all impacted VIP owners and performing changes to points buckets and GC/HK/RT counts retroactively best estimate. I tend to agree with the consensus - take screenshots of your account information the day before the changes are rolled out. This is the area where I'd expect the most heartache.
I get your point, but TBH, I think this will backfire and end up causing more VIP rentals to hit the market. I mean if you have the option between recouping some MF or sending the points to RCI, pretty sure everyone is taking the cash. I really doubt the best move for all folk’s resale points is to dump them to next use year - especially if your use year just started.
And I think this brings us back to the question of how resale and developer points with different rules can be seen as one account. Will the website function properly for all the contingencies? Will CS actually understand all the rules and the complexities? Or will resale be considered second class citizens and everything need to be fought tooth and nail for at every interaction?
This really is the biggest question. There are a lot of ways that different types of points can or should be able to combine. Do we trust that they've thought through them all?
There is no reason why they should not combine. CWA benefits are not VIP BENEFITS.
I think we can all agree that there is no reason why they should not combine. That's quite a different question than "will they combine?".
My original question, though, was can a VIP-eligible CWA contract and a non-VIP eligible CWA contract combine for VIP. According to the documentation, this would require booking with non-VIP points and borrowing VIP points - in that instance, will the system allow them to combine for ARP? Obviously they should, but will they?
I am working off memory but I recall someone saying that either Worldmark or Shell had the technology to distinguish between retail and resale.
Not in the standard window. There are no benefits in the 10 month window.
