Trading points for points

[Kurby]

Do people here trade SS points for BW?

here's my thought - we in the process of buying into AK and are thinking of 14 days in April 2008.

what we wanted to do was 7 days at AK and 7 days at Boardwalk. I saw someones post that said BW is very hard to get into unless you own so you can book 11 months out.

we would need 123 points for our stay at BW and was wondering if we could ask for a trade of 123 AK points for 123 BW points.

do people do this or do they just sell their points?

i'd love to be able to book both our weeks 11 months out since this is our very first DVC trip and I don't want to make it too complicated or not getting our 1 week at BW.

 

[bobbiwoz]

See if anyone is interested in doing what you ask on the rent/trade board.

The main difficulties with booking BWV at 7 months is availablity of GV's, Standard view rooms, or Boardwalk view rooms. I do not think anyone has ever reported not getting a pool/preferred view there at exactly 7 months out. I really think that if you book the whole stay at AKV, (or wherever you own, I see SSR is mentioned as well) you will be able to change 7 months to a preferred/pool view right away or through a waitlist for the vacation experience you really want! Non-owners HAVE gotten those other, boardwalk views or standard views, just don't count on it!

Bobbi

 

[Caskbill]

If you're talking about actually someone else transferring their BWV points to you so you could make an 11-month reservation, and you in return will transfer some of your AKV points to them, that won't work.

You can only make a single transfer, either in, or out, of your account for a given use year.

Thus you can't 'swap' points.

The only way you could do it is to find someone who wants an AKV reservation at 11-months, who owns BWV. They would make a BWV reservation in your name, and you would make an AKV reservation in their name.

If you want to find someone, try the rent/trade board. Be sure you select the correct category. In this case it would be the "Trade Wanted" category, or you could probably use the "Reservation Wanted" category. (Read the sticky threads on the R/T board regarding thread title requirements as thread titles are checked automatically by software. Be sure to also read the posting rules for that board).