Is this correct (below)?
PIC Plus is most similar to the old PIC program?
Anyone can make a Wyndham points developer purchase, enroll their non-Wyndham, non-Points ownerships to make them eligible for annual optional deposit with Wyndham in exchange for Wyndham points, and benefit from VIP levels commensurate with the collective maximum annual Wyndham points they'd have if they chose to deposit all of their PIC'ed weeks.
PIC Express takes some of the features from three old programs: PlusPartners, Discovery, and PIC?
With
old PlusPartners, fixed week or resale Wyndham owners
paid a $2,395 fee to Wyndham corporate (not Sales) to make their account eligible for certain developer-points-purchase benefits. Back then, the desired benefit was mostly access to the new RCI Points system and PlusPartners points-for-airfare/hotel/airfare/tickets options. With PIC Express, the desired benefit would be temporary VIP status. Bach then, Sales did not promote way of obtaining PlusPartners without a developer purchase either - you had to know to ask for it or seek it directly from corporate.
With
old Discovery, potential buyers paid a fee to Sales for temporary/one-or-two year use of points to either try out Club Wyndham or to try out VIP benefits if the Discovery points increased their account to a new VIP level. With PIC Express, there's a temporary aspect to the benefits with a 5-year limit.
With
old PIC, a designated Wyndham points value for each PIC'ed non-Wyndham timeshare week was included when counting up the number of eligible points in a Wyndham account to determine VIP levels.
Other features of all of these old programs are not necessarily part of PIC Express.
(above paragraph edited)
If there is more than one way to enroll in PIC Express, then either side may have their own references as well as some leeway to offer a deal better than what's in the reference. It's possible that Wyndham corporate (Owner Care?) was referencing rules for PIC Plus or old rules for PIC or just some standard explanation info. It's possible that a Salesperson (either SalesWeasel or TeleTales
) is able to offer a better deal at times to entice a potential buyer who has a particular objection (ex., one enrolled timeshare would not have enough points value to attain the next VIP level but they won't pay for two). It's curious that the two quoted figures above are multiples of each other (49K x 2 = 98K) and the person who quoted 98K was addressing a possible PIC express of 2 contracts.
PIC Express looks like a potentially effective sales tool. Wyndham already sells a lot of developer points to current owners. They benefit if owners have time to learn about VIP benefits and grow accustomed to using them, perhaps become more willing to make a developer purchase later. Even when PIC Express does not produce future sales, Wyndham corporate will have received PIC Express fee$ from people to whom Sales were unable to sell more product.
