What's the Rationale Behind The One Time Only Purchase of Extra Points from DVC?

[Sammie]

never mind

 

[DVCLiz]

Excuse me, I thought this was a public forum where everyone can comment.

I did not say I cared, nor did I say I disagreed, I simply asked how you knew there was no plausible reason; I thought maybe you asked.

Sorry you are not having good day.

I'm having an excellent day, thanks. My opinion was that no explanation of the rules sounded plausible to me when applied to my particular situation. I'm not sure why you felt the need to jump in and question that but as you say it's a public forum so please feel free to continue to make any comment you choose about my reservation.

 

[BirdsOfPreyDave]

I think LisaS' explanation sounds the most plausible to me, that they simply have a true/false flag on the use year that you'd already used one-time-use points. I'm betting the software came first, then the rule. They didn't want to create the logic to keep track of how many of 24 points had been used.

I personally don't think it has anything to do with the one transfer per year logic, as you'd still be able to do a transfer with another user even if you'd purchased one-time-use points, and vice versa. Nothing in the rules indicate that a purchase of one-time-use points constitutes the use of your annual transfer. Also, the one transfer per use year restriction is at the contract level. If a member has three contracts under their membership, they can have three transfers per use year; one for each contract. For one-time-use points, the restriction is one per year per membership, not contract. So that same member with three contracts would still only be able to purchase one-time-use points once per year. (This may be one of very few tangible perks of having multiple member numbers to juggle.)

 

[LauraLea]

If a member has three contracts under their membership, they can have three transfers per use year; one for each contract.

Really? I always thought it was one per membership. I have 3 memberships with a total of 6 contracts and never knew this. It is common for me to take advantage of at least 2 24 point purchases per year.

Laura

 

[CRobin]

Really? I always thought it was one per membership. I have 3 memberships with a total of 6 contracts and never knew this. It is common for me to take advantage of at least 2 24 point purchases per year.

Laura

MS has always permitted us one transfer per contract (or membership #; I can't remember), although others have indicated they have been denied. If that happens, call back and get someone else @ MS.

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[LauraLea]

MS has always permitted us one transfer per contract (or membership #; I can't remember), although others have indicated they have been denied. If that happens, call back and get someone else @ MS.

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I have never had a problem with 1 transfer per membership either. My brother also is a member and more than once he has transferred me points so I could book either a THV or GV for all of us. But never was I aware it could be a transfer per contract.

Laura

 

[Deb & Bill]

I have never had a problem with 1 transfer per membership either. My brother also is a member and more than once he has transferred me points so I could book either a THV or GV for all of us. But never was I aware it could be a transfer per contract.

Laura

Not a transfer per contract. It's one transfer per membership. So any contract that is numbered XXXXX.001, XXXXX.002 would be the same contract. But if they were numbered YYYYY.001 and ZZZZZ.001, those would be different memberships.

 

[BirdsOfPreyDave]

Sounds like I got hold of the wrong side of the stick. Changed my post.

 

[AllieV]

I would call again. I bought four to complete a waitlist anf askef if it didn't come through could I move to a more expensive but more available category and buy the additional points for that so long as my combined total was under 25. She said yes because it wad 24 per use year. So I asked again if it could be done as a split buy. Yes I was told again
So I bought the four points and can buy 20 more if necessary to complete this trip.