II E-plus strategy advice

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Guidance or informed viewpoints please: In my Corporate MVC II account I've successfully exchanged into a non-Abound resort so paid the exchange fee, but not yet bought e-plus. The resort is in the Caribbean for Dec this year, so there is a possibility that it gets damaged to the point where we choose not to go, but not so bad as to be closed so II give us a replacement week.

Usually with a non-Abound property I'd add e-plus, but with the recent changes where it stops being available at 14 days ahead, I'm not sure if it is worth it as I could just do a no-fee retrade to an Abound resort and then work the problem from there.

I haven't quite got my head round the new flexchange deadlines. If I did choose to retrade the day before check-in, how far would I be able to trade out to, and could I then add e-plus to bust out of flexchange?

Cancellation insurance is not an option.

 

[dioxide45]

Guidance or informed viewpoints please: In my Corporate MVC II account I've successfully exchanged into a non-Abound resort so paid the exchange fee, but not yet bought e-plus. The resort is in the Caribbean for Dec this year, so there is a possibility that it gets damaged to the point where we choose not to go, but not so bad as to be closed so II give us a replacement week.

Usually with a non-Abound property I'd add e-plus, but with the recent changes where it stops being available at 14 days ahead, I'm not sure if it is worth it as I could just do a no-fee retrade to an Abound resort and then work the problem from there.

I haven't quite got my head round the new flexchange deadlines. If I did choose to retrade the day before check-in, how far would I be able to trade out to, and could I then add e-plus to bust out of flexchange?

Cancellation insurance is not an option.

If you retrade the day prior to checkin, you should be able to retrade up to 30 days from the current date. You should then also be able to add Eplus, but your Eplus retrades will always then be 59 day restricted. You could then do retrades that are 59 days from the current checkin date. So that would get you some more flexibility to be able to retrade out to about 6 or 7 months from the time you do that very first Abound retrade.

 

[Hindsite]

If you retrade the day prior to checkin, you should be able to retrade up to 30 days from the current date. You should then also be able to add Eplus, but your Eplus retrades will always then be 59 day restricted. You could then do retrades that are 59 days from the current checkin date. So that would get you some more flexibility to be able to retrade out to about 6 or 7 months from the time you do that very first Abound retrade.

If I used the 3 x e-plus to get out 6-7 months could I then use a no fee retrade to get out to the expiry date, and would that expiry date be the +12months of e-plus or the original deposit expiry date?

 

[dioxide45]

If I used the 3 x e-plus to get out 6-7 months could I then use a no fee retrade to get out to the expiry date, and would that expiry date be the +12months of e-plus or the original deposit expiry date?

I think that if you retrade out the 3x then your next full fee ($0) retrade would still be 30 days restricted since the original deposit rules take effect. You need to take a cancellation replacement prior to 59 days from checkin to get a cancellation deposit that is not restricted. Any time Eplus retrades are exhausted, then the original deposit expiration is back in place. So it is possible that your deposit is expired because Eplus expiration can be after the original deposit expiration.