Thanks for the information about secondary points purchase. As I understand it my level can not change with the purchase of non developers points but my discounts and booking dates will remain the same. Will my secondary points be available to be used with my developer points when booking reservations online? So just to be clear my current VIP benefits will also apply to the secondary points I purchase. IF so I'm very surprised. Why would anyone purchase additional developer points after reaching their desired VIP Level?
For people like me, and many of us here, we know better then to take anything a sales person says seriously. Many do not. A sales person may give them a reason as to why they need the next level. If someone is at The 1.4 million mark and will be Founder, a sales person will still tell then they have to buy in to be founder, even though they know for a fact, that’s not true. However, there wasn’t much advertised and nothing that said people would be auto enrolled into the new program and wouldn’t lose anything. Nothing but a leaked memo that said things were subject change. The sales people are really good at convincing people that what they know is not true or that they need to “lock in” something.
With that said, people can often change their minds, on their own, about what their desired level is. They may decide Gold would better suit their needs then Silver does. Maybe their travel lifestyle has changed and they feel they can utilize more of the VIP benefits then they could before, and could get more value out of Gold then they could before. Any number of reasons could get them to change their mind about what their desired level is. I think Wyndham is smart enough to know, that if someone doesn’t want a higher level, they have no reason to buy more retail. Taking away the ability to use resale points with their VIP benefits, is not going to make many people want to buy more of something they don’t want. Especially given how much they have to pay to get to the next level. Plus, it would tick a lot of people off and make them not want to dump more money into their program. Not to mention that the value people get from resale, is what keeps contracts in the hands of owners, and fewer people walk away leaving Wyndham and the resorts holding the bag. If they devalue or restrict resale, it affects the perceived value and people may look into other systems that give then more resale benefits.
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