I have two contracts with different use years.... in 2011 (use years) I transferred from one contract to the other... I always thought that each contract (not member) was aloud one transfer either in or out per use year.... I spoke with member services earlier today and they said that wasn't entirely true. Because I teansferred between my two contracts I would be aloud one additional transfer... has anyone had this experience before?
I called again just to confirm information and on my second call I was told I did the transfer in 2010 use year, I know from my own record keeping that the transfer was in fact in my 2011 use year...
Need advice... thanks!
I believe you are the second person to report that you could do another transfer after transfering between your own use years. A little history:
Originally, the rule was as it is now, you could make only one transfer, in or out, but not both, per use year. Technically, if you had two use years meaning starting in two different months, you were treated as two different members and thus could make a transfer out from one use year month into the other contract with a different use year month, with the result that you would exhaust your one transfer per use year for each contract.
However, that is not what they actually did. They in fact did not enforce the one transfer rule when you were transferring bewtween your own contracts. You could do that transfer as many times as you wanted per use year. They applied the one transfer rule only when the transfer was actually between two different people.
In about 2003 or 2004, they changed the transfer rule to allow anyone to make as many transfers as they wanted per use year as long as all those transfers were either in or out but not both directions. In other words you could make 10 transfers out or 10 in but not both one in and one out.
Professional renters saw that new rule as an opportunity. They could have one contract where they could accept transfers in from other members and then use points from those members to rent reservations that they made for renters. They could then also have another contract with a different use year month that they loaded with points and tranferred them out for a fee. During that time owners with two contract years could could make unlimited transfer from one contract to another but could not go both ways; in other words, they were subject to same rules as everyone else.
Because of of the activities of professional renters, Disney, in 2008, did away with the multiple transfer rule and returned to the original one transfer in or one out rule. However, what they did not reinstate at that time was the practice of allowing a single owner with two use years to make unlimited transfers between his own contracts. About a month ago someone mentioned that an MS rep told him you could do more than one transfer between your old contracts because those would not count as official transfer, thus indicating the old exception was back. However, then someone else mentioned that you couldn't do multiple transfer between your own contracts. You are now the second person for whom it has been indicated the old original exception is back.
Bill
