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I have to say, I’m pretty pleased with this contest, I’ve never won anything in my life, and I’ve won 500 Plus Points x 2, 1000 Bonvoy points x 2, and a Shutterfly book. Does anyone know what the terms of the Plus Points are? I assume they are limited usage Anound points of some kind?
They appear to be able to book properties exactly like regular points, and in fact are good for two years from the date they are deposited in the account.
 

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I have to say, I’m pretty pleased with this contest, I’ve never won anything in my life, and I’ve won 500 Plus Points x 2, 1000 Bonvoy points x 2, and a Shutterfly book. Does anyone know what the terms of the Plus Points are? I assume they are limited usage Anound points of some kind?
I agree. Plus Points x 1, 1000 Bonvoy Points x 3, and a Shutterfly book for us (although I missed the email deadline to get that one processed). But best of all, just hit 300 Grand Prize entries this morning, so there’s that.
 

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Has anyone who won the 500 Plus Points been able to reserve online using those points? I just tried to make a reservation, and any search I tried stated that I did not have enough points to make the reservation. I called CS and they seemed stumped at first, but were able to make the reservation for me through another channel.

I'm glad I got the reservation I was trying to make, but was hoping to get to try out the MVC online reservation process.
 

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Finally got something from a weekly drawing - 2 years of II Platinum, making it 3 x 500 PlusPoints, 1,000 Bonvoy points, 1 photo book, 3,000 Bonvoy points and 2 years II Platinum. Now to just wait and see which II account it shows up on....
If you only own Vistana (and not Marriott), then I would think the platinum membership will show up in your Vistana Corp II account. I wouldn't expect them to apply it to an individual II account. I suspect anything is possible though.
 

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Has anyone who won the 500 Plus Points been able to reserve online using those points? I just tried to make a reservation, and any search I tried stated that I did not have enough points to make the reservation. I called CS and they seemed stumped at first, but were able to make the reservation for me through another channel.

I'm glad I got the reservation I was trying to make, but was hoping to get to try out the MVC online reservation process.
I was unable to book online, but the rep was able to do so for me on chat. They said that I wouldn't be able to book this "type" of point myself.
 

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If you only own Vistana (and not Marriott), then I would think the platinum membership will show up in your Vistana Corp II account. I wouldn't expect them to apply it to an individual II account. I suspect anything is possible though.
I have two Vistana Corp II accounts as a result of having purchased a small Aventuras contract to retro a Lagunamar week. That new contract has both my name and my wife's name on it and they wouldn't combine the accounts under my name as a single account - I have to deal with three separate signons in my name and one for my wife because of the silly policy they have; the third one in my name is an unauthorized Lagunamar week in my name with my middle initial on the certificate. Somewhat annoying, but I figure that if Marriott is dead set on me being three completely different people with the same email address and physical address then by gosh I am three completely different people for their contest.... :cool:
 

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I just won 500 points on my Marriott account. My Marriott account doesn’t have any Abound points and only has couple legacy weeks. Not sure how Marriott will deal with that?
 

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I just won 500 points on my Marriott account. My Marriott account doesn’t have any Abound points and only has couple legacy weeks. Not sure how Marriott will deal with that?
You might get the Bonvoy points instead or perhaps they will see you are in Abound and give you the Club Points.
 

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I have two Vistana Corp II accounts as a result of having purchased a small Aventuras contract to retro a Lagunamar week. That new contract has both my name and my wife's name on it and they wouldn't combine the accounts under my name as a single account - I have to deal with three separate signons in my name and one for my wife because of the silly policy they have; the third one in my name is an unauthorized Lagunamar week in my name with my middle initial on the certificate. Somewhat annoying, but I figure that if Marriott is dead set on me being three completely different people with the same email address and physical address then by gosh I am three completely different people for their contest.... :cool:
If you aren't trading in II, then the account that gets II Platinum might not matter as you can buy getaways on any account and just use the II plat one for the $50 discount and any of the other platinum benefits. I was in a different situation with an II Vistana Corp and an II MVC Corp account. We already buy II platinum on our MVC account because that is where we do all our exchanges. We never exchange using our Vistana weeks. When they applied our 2 year II Platinum prize, they allocated it to our Vistana Corp account.
 

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If you aren't trading in II, then the account that gets II Platinum might not matter as you can buy getaways on any account and just use the II plat one for the $50 discount and any of the other platinum benefits. I was in a different situation with an II Vistana Corp and an II MVC Corp account. We already buy II platinum on our MVC account because that is where we do all our exchanges. We never exchange using our Vistana weeks. When they applied our 2 year II Platinum prize, they allocated it to our Vistana Corp account.
Thanks. I've already got platinum on my non-corporate II account, which I've been using for other TS trading; this can work out well to save a bit on size upgrades for trades into Marriotts with a Vistana week depending on which account it winds up on. I wouldn't pay for it myself as I don't typically exchange in II with those, but under the right circumstances I might.
 

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Game playing is supposed to be good for you, right? DH and I have been on vacation and play Wordle and the Abound match game every morning to stave off dementia. Now we’re just paranoid that Abound hates us. While you are all hoovering up prizes, we’ve never gotten more than 1 or 2 sweepstakes entries at a time. Still holding out hope, though!
 

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Game playing is supposed to be good for you, right? DH and I have been on vacation and play Wordle and the Abound match game every morning to stave off dementia. Now we’re just paranoid that Abound hates us. While you are all hoovering up prizes, we’ve never gotten more than 1 or 2 sweepstakes entries at a time. Still holding out hope, though!
Have you tried quordle or octordle? Anyway, if you're hoovering up all the sweepstakes entries you'll probably win the $5K MF prize....
 

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Game playing is supposed to be good for you, right? DH and I have been on vacation and play Wordle and the Abound match game every morning to stave off dementia. Now we’re just paranoid that Abound hates us. While you are all hoovering up prizes, we’ve never gotten more than 1 or 2 sweepstakes entries at a time. Still holding out hope, though!
I think you need to mix up the times that you play. The prizes are predetermined based on a timestamp. First to play after the timestamp and you win. If you are both playing at exactly the same time, you are probably wasting a chance at a prize.
 

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Oh, no, @dioxide! Watching the clock sounds like a lot of work to do on vacation!
 

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Oh, no, @dioxide! Watching the clock sounds like a lot of work to do on vacation!
Well, the timestamps are random. So you never know what time a prize is available, but spreading the plays out might help. Though it is also possible that you could hit two prizes at the same time. All random.
 

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Has anyone who won the 500 Plus Points been able to reserve online using those points? I just tried to make a reservation, and any search I tried stated that I did not have enough points to make the reservation. I called CS and they seemed stumped at first, but were able to make the reservation for me through another channel.

I'm glad I got the reservation I was trying to make, but was hoping to get to try out the MVC online reservation process.
Yes - just booked a 4nt in a 1Bd Marriott Grand Chateau (Vegas) using the 500 CP from Abound contest. I was able to choose those 500 and then 128 CP that I had from a WKV (Kierland) Abound conversion. Only $15/nt (at $0.45/CP) and no (BS) Resort Fee!

I did this by going through Vistana Portal to MVC page - Bonus CP showed as their own line item.
 

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The 500 Abound points we won on 2/23/23 just posted in the account today. They are listed as "Use Year: 29 March 2023 - 28 March 2025" with the type listed as "MVCD Plus Points Promo".
 

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I won 3 sweepstakes entries today. Wohoo! So far I've only been winning one or two. No other prizes.
 

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500 points that I won on January 29 still have not posted.
 

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Me too! The points I won on February 3 and February 27 still have not been posted to my account. But the towel I won on March 6 arrived last week.
 

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We won points on 3/19, understandably, we haven't received them yet.
We also won a 2-year II platinum membership on 3/13 and it showed up on the 24th.
 

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My 500 Plus Points posted (3/22)exactly 1 month from the last email I received.
 

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Received our 500 points (won mid-Feb?) a couple of weeks ago - and already used them to make a reservation.

Hope you all followed instructions to complete transfer per email sent.


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