Originally Posted by
sgopal2
Sorry for being unclear. I didn't mean to say that 3 year spend is unimportant. It is clearly important, for both first time GS and re-qualifiers. However the data shows that the 3 year avg PQD is considerably lower for new GS invites as compared to requalifiers:
New GS (3 year Running Avg) PQD: $36,347
Requalifier GS (3 year Running Avg) PQD: $54,324
This is statistically significant at the 5% level. And the difference is huge, almost $20K. So this clearly means that they are more forgiving for first time GS in the 3 year spend. But it also means that once you are invited to GS, they have higher expectations on maintaining that PQD spend to requalify.
No, thank you for clarifying this. I definitely fall into the category of "forgiving for first time GS" but I am sure if I don't bump my spend this year I won't meet that "higher expectation" to requalify. For me this makes perfect sense. Sadly for my nephew who seems to fall into the opposite catagory of GS for several years and declining spend rate who now looks like he didn't requal despite a greater spend than me as a "first timer". Makes more sense now, thank you.