Can I do anything with expiring Wyndham points in RCI

[FLDVCFamily]

Title says it all. These were pandemic time points, banked into RCI and then extended for a year (or two?) beyond the original expiration. They're expiring Dec. 31st. We just haven't found a way to use them. Is there anything I can do with them before they just expire? Thanks.

 

[DeniseM]

You can pay to extend them again.

 

[rickandcindy23]

You can pay to extend them again.

I don't think so. Once you have extended so many times, you really cannot do that anymore with Wyndham points. I have 131,000 that expire 5/31. There seems to be nothing I can do after already extending.

RCI is expensive to use, and once you spend $300 on an exchange, you can add the insurance, but it only covers the trading power. If you change your mind on that trip you grabbed to use those points, you are out the exchange fee and just get back points you have a hard time using.

RCI has increased their price by a lot.

 

[RENTER]

I don't think so. Once you have extended so many times, you really cannot do that anymore with Wyndham points. I have 131,000 that expire 5/31. There seems to be nothing I can do after already extending.

RCI is expensive to use, and once you spend $300 on an exchange, you can add the insurance, but it only covers the trading power. If you change your mind on that trip you grabbed to use those points, you are out the exchange fee and just get back points you have a hard time using.

RCI has increased their price by a lot.

I was looking at RCI on my Wyndham page for the first time the other day. They were offering a discount on the exchange fee.

 

[rickandcindy23]

I was looking at RCI on my Wyndham page for the first time the other day. They were offering a discount on the exchange fee.

Not for me. I just checked. $299 exchange fee.

 

[RENTER]

Not for me. I just checked. $299 exchange fee.

Not much of a discount. I just checked again. $30 off to $269

 

[FLDVCFamily]

I do not want to deposit any more points into RCI since I have 406K points expiring on Dec 31st (pandemic points, have already been extended to the maximum). If we can't find a good travel match between now and the end of December, is there anything else I can do with these points? I should have paid more attention to banking them, I know that. I already have next year's points fully booked, I just didn't get around to doing anything with this year's points unfortunately. Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[Floridaman76]

You can convert them to Wyndham Rewards points or maintenance fees. I don't remember, but there may be a restriction that you can only do this with developer ponits.

I never did it because the conversion rate sucks. But I guess it beats losing them.

You may also be able to make a booking and "sell" it to Extra Holidays and monetize it that way too. Never did that either. I have always been able to move or use my points.

 

[Floridaman76]

There's definitely a few bargains in RCI for sure. Even with the exchange fee, but they are getting to be few and far between.

 

[FLDVCFamily]

What is Extra Holidays? Is that like the people who rent out units on Ebay or something? I saw some of those on there but I had no idea if it was OK to do that so I haven't.

 

[Floridaman76]

What is Extra Holidays? Is that like the people who rent out units on Ebay or something? I saw some of those on there but I had no idea if it was OK to do that so I haven't.

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