How does this happen - bank + current

Katie L

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I thought the system automatically took “oldest points” first. How does this happen?

There are 54 points as of Aug. 2018 (39 points were banked from Aug. 2017 & 15 points are from Aug. 2018) + 180 points coming Aug. 2019 + 180 points coming Aug. 2020.
 
Look at your account detail by date to see what occurred.

:earsboy: Bill

 
Look at your account detail by date to see what occurred.

:earsboy: Bill
It’s a contract I was browsing as we consider buying.... but sounds like it could be a variety of reasons based on that response.

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Not enough info to tell what happened.
One should always check to see the point balance after every transaction. Either on the phone when you make/cancel a reservation or on line.
 

It’s a contract I was browsing as we consider buying.... but sounds like it could be a variety of reasons based on that response.

**edited due to massive phone typos**
It could happen if reservations that were canceled or altered, if points were borrowed but other points later freed up, etc. It's not uncommon with a system that doesn't let you unborrow borrowed points. Fortunately for us Marriott puts canceled borrowed points back into their original UY, wish DVC did.
 
Someone probably cancelled a stay, after they had booked another one using current points. Or they made a reservation without banking points, so current points were used. They probably did not know they could call to have the points reallocated.
 
The "system" doesn't really do anything. When you book a reservation online you choose which points you want to allocate to a reservation and in what order. I guess there are defaults, but the user has complete control over it so I don't consider it to be "system" driven or automated. Maybe if a user wasn't paying attention to what they were doing, they could have applied the wrong points to a reservation.
 
When doing a reservation, the system will use banked points first if, and only if, the member has actually banked them before doing the reservation. What you are seeing indicates that the member likely did the following: (a) made a reservation for the 2017 use year that used up both 2017 points and borrowed 165 points from the Aug 2018 use year; (b) circumstances changed and the reservation was modified, possibly by switching resorts at 7 months out, which left 39 2017 points left over which were then banked into the 2018 use year. That scenario would explain why there are 165 points already gone from the 2018 use year even though there is likely no reservation existing in that use year --it is right now early Aug 2018, the beginning of that use year and the owner should not have an existing reservation in place to be taken in the future if trying to sell the points. It also explains why the 2017 points were banked because those 165 points borrowed from 2018 could not be sent back to the 2018 use year and thus when the 2017 reservation was modified, those borrowed points got used first before the current 2017 use year points (which the system would also do). That scenario also explains why the member has not attempted to reallocate the banked points to a reservation in the 2018 use year using 2018 points

That is the likely scenario. Another less likely one is that the member could have sold and transferred the 165 points from 2018 to someone else.
 
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