Biennial Points Question

[CatsMeeoow]

Looking at a resale contract for biennial points even years.

Can those points be "pooled" or whatever term they are using for the site or are the rules different for biennial points in that you have to use them the year you get them?

Thanks for the help.

 

[Roger830]

I have an odd and an even year contracts, they can be pooled.

 

[CatsMeeoow]

Big help! Thanks!

 

[tschwa2]

I have an odd and an even year contracts, they can be pooled.

They actually can't anymore.
Now points can be moved forward. So if you know you want to use half of your biennial points this year and half on your off year you would have to more half your points forward. One problem you may have is you can no longer freely borrow the points you moved forward. You would also not be able to more those points forward again to the next year if you later decide you won't use them in the year you placed them in.

So lets say you have 210,000 even points.
Your option is to use all the points in 2018
You could move some or all of your points into 2019 or 2010.
If you are not VIP you would have until 3 months into your use year to move the points or you could do it the year before but still only moving points forward one or two years. You do have the option to move some points forward one year and some points forward two years.

 

[bendadin]

And you can borrow them in the Express window.

 

[paxsarah]

Well, there is no longer a credit pool as there once was. But they can be moved to another use year using the new points deposit feature. Although I haven't put it to the test yet, I am more concerned now about being able to properly manage my biennial odd contracts/points because the new function has less flexibility than the pool used to have. I used to recommend that if people wanted to buy biennial contracts, not to hesitate because through the credit pool it was very easy to use those points whenever worked best. Now, I'd say my advice is unless there is something very special about the biennial contract you're looking at (ARP or low MFs) or you really only plan to use it every other year in most instances, you might want to hold out for a comparable annual contract.

 

[bendadin]

I have a couple of even year contracts (336k) and I don't quite know whether to keep them or not. They do seem to take more planning. I guess if I bank half of them it might balance out.