We just came back from the mall. Our main purpose for going there was to complete the paperwork necessary to go ahead with the add-on we talked about at the preview last Wednesday night.
There were people buzzing all outside of the store (3 pm on a cloudy/dreary Chicago afternoon). We walked inside and the CM said, you want to add on today? We're like, yep, we want to add on today. The CM said, well, if you take the tour, you have 7 days to do that. I said, nope, we already took the tour on Wednesday, now we need to complete the paperwork. The CM says, you want to talk to a guide? I said, yes, exactly, to which the CM said, ummmm, let me check because I think you'll need to come back.
The manager came out and said if we only wanted to do the add-on, if we gave them the deposit money, they would mail us the paperwork. I said I didn't realize that we needed to call to make an appointment to complete the add on. The manager CM said that they have been really jumping with people buying/adding on, and they just didn't have the manpower to sit with us today. She invited us to return another day this week or just do everything through the mail. We wrote her a deposit check and she said she'd process it and we should have the paperwork by mid-week.
Here's where the question came in. I talked to our guide in FL on Friday and questioned where/when/how the developer points could be used. She said as long as we used them within 12 months, we were good. And, that they could be used at any resort, regardless of where the add-on was being done, AND at the 11 month window.
When I repeated this to the manager, she said that her understanding was that they were to be used within 12 months, but that they could only be used to book at the 7 month window.
Being we were/planning on adding on 168 points, that would put us at having almost 250 points to use within 12 months. We had talked about doing the add-on and then using them to try for a GV, at one of our home resorts, at the 11 month window which is this coming week. I'm concerned now that trying to book at GV at the 7 month window isn't going to happen and we'll have all of the developer points that we won't be able to use.
I'll be calling to confirm this with MS tomorrow as that's what the manager at the Doorway to Dreams suggested. I'd call our guide but I know that she's out of town on vacation starting this week.
I just feel like the thoughts/plans/decisions we thought we had made over the weekend are now all up in the air.
and said one per family. So it was worth going down there for the goodie bag but just a little unorganized. Maybe they were just getting crazy with alot of people. 
