A minor digression on DVC points

[walkitout]

It is a piece of Received Wisdom that one should never convert DVC points into RCI points. It is such a piece of received wisdom, that I did not have any ideas what the rules governing that were. That was not so bright of me! I had some points that were stranded — and then I had more points that were the result of Someone Else canceling their participation in a shared vacation (understandable, but I could have wished that they made that decision in the 9 months ahead of that, and not the 9 days after I finally bought their plane tickets, when they swore they were going. And no, nothing changed between then and when they bailed). The resulting 132 points across 2 memberships, all past their banking deadlines, nagged at me until I thought, hey, could I put these into RCI?

Short form: yes! In increments of 10 points. But I can borrow points from a future year to bring it up to 10. And because they were not banked points, I could transfer from one membership to another, to combine them. Yay!

And I have until the end of 2022 to use them. Yes, end of 2022. Woot!

I tried to call on Monday to do this, and it kept ringing busy. I knew that was going to happen. It was a Monday. Also, the FB DVC group said people were calling after hours just to get the recording instead of the busy signal. I tried Tuesday. Several times, each day. No luck. But today, around 3 something, it rang through! Surprised the hell out of me. I had a 35 minute wait, but everything worked great.