Wyndham Rewards - I have 1,760 WR points exp Jan2012 what to do?

I don't want to pay for a stay or credit a car rental etc.

Is there anything I can do to earn 1 or 2 points to extend or spend them? Points.com looks like nada.

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Is there anything I can do to earn 1 or 2 points to extend or spend them?Use 'em or lose 'em - account activity won't extend their life (sdsearch found this out a couple of weeks ago):

"8.Wyndham Rewards points expire four (4) years after being posted to the Member’s account, unless forfeited or cancelled earlier due to membership inactivity or otherwise in accordance with these Terms and Conditions."

How do you know when the points expire? I don't think losing 1,760 WR points is worth sweating over.

I have 1,760 WR points exp Jan2012 what to do?

I don't want to pay for a stay or credit a car rental etc.

Is there anything I can do to earn 1 or 2 points to extend or spend them? Points.com looks like nada.
Why are they expriing, and how do you know? Is the 4-year "hard" expiration of points, or is the 18 months of inactivity "soft" exipration of your account?

This is very important to understand, because one can be extended, and the other can't.

Having said that, 1760 WR poitns is not very much. It's the number of points you normally earn on 2 nights at $88 each, or duing the current "double" promo the number of points you'd earn on just one single night at $88!

In terms of redemption, it's less than 1/3 of the lowest redemption rate of the cheapest WR hotel redemption anywhere (and, no, I don't know where those mythical 6000-point hotels are), and a tiny fraciton of a free night at the average WR hotel (even the cheap-on-cash ones everywhere I look are more than 6000 points for redemption).

How do you know when the points expire? I don't think losing 1,760 WR points is worth sweating over.

Humm....

Awardwallet is telling me the exp date. It could be off. Not sweating it, just would love to move them or buy some time. Not a big WR fan, just keep each and every point I can (up to 1.9 million in all accounts now) :D

Humm....

Awardwallet is telling me the exp date. It could be off. Not sweating it, just would love to move them or buy some time. Not a big WR fan, just keep each and every point I can (up to 1.9 million in all accounts now) :D
Well, again, without knowing whether AwardWallet is referring to the 18 month "soft" expiration or the 4 year "hard" expiration, it's not clear on whether you can buy some time or not.

So you need to figure out how old these points are.

Go to the WyndhamRewards website, log in, and then look at your account history back 18 months (that's as far as you can look back). If you see those 1760 points in there, it's presumably the 18 months that Award Wallet is referring to, and any "activity" will help (not that there are tons of choices besides hotel "stays" or their credit card). If you don't (or if you happen to remember that your last stay with TripRewards -- what WyndhamRewards was called 4 years ago -- was almost 4 years ago), then there's nothing you can do about it.

If it is 18 months, then by applying for the no-annual-fee version of the credit card, you'd still get many thousand points for I think your first purchase (but not net extra spending, just diverted from spending which would normally go to some other card), and then by keeping that no-annual-fee version you could keep your points alive for the full 4 years.

However: Because you have so few points and seem unwilling to consider a WR hotel stay and because there will eventually be a 4 year "hard" expiration (even if this isn't it), you may want to think about whether for this few points it's worth going to the effort to extend their life if you still won't have a chance to add to them and then use them before the "hard" expiration arrives.

Just TopGuest a Wingate once to extend your points' expiration for free -- if, that is, it's a "soft" expiration you're facing.