HGVC NYC 57th Street Points

[alwysonvac]

Ah, I get it now. (I had a feeling that you were referring to that aspect, but just wanted to clarify.

But now I think you're both saying something that I hadn't gotten previously:

It seems like the same loophole that let us W. 57th people use the HGVC points early (always allowed to use them, as we said, and the loophole just let us do it at Club window) also allowed HCNY people to use HGVC points, which shouldn't have been allowed at all, i.e it lumped everything for them such that HGVC acted as HCNY?

If that's the case, then I do see this as a big deal (and apologies for any confusion by missing it). For us at W. 57th, the only loss was in not being able to game the system and use Vegas points at W. 57th Club window. I liked it while it lasted, but I get it.

For HCNY, though, it completely took away the ability to use HGVC at all. While this was definitely in the contracts, the fact that it did work at the time, and was "sold" that way (by weasel words) seems pretty significant, even if not legally enforceable based on written documents.

Cheers.

Thanks for the summary.
Wow, that's a big error on HCNY's part. It sounds like HCNY owners were competing with points that should not have been allowed in the system.
It seems to me that this would have allowed more points in the pool than the total number of points available each year (similar to booking at a resort with oversold weeks).

When HCNY first opened, they allowed HGVC Elite members, for a limited time, to use their HGVC points to book a stay (similar to offers we've seen in the past on new properties since it's basically developer inventory). Here are the old threads.
https://www.tug1.net/tugbbs1/Forum6/HTML/001379.html
https://www.tug1.net/tugbbs1/Forum6/HTML/001230.html