Originally Posted by speekeasy8

I was in a similar situation, building towards the necessary amount of points. In the meantime, my points advance booking for 6 nights in January went from 175k points to 300k points. Yesterday, after finally getting to 175k points, I DM'd the MBonvoyAssist account on Twitter and asked for assistance with my points advance booking made prior to the peak pricing implementation in September. After a couple security questions from them, they added 125k points to my account, deducted 300k points, and attached the e-certificate to my reservation. I recommend giving that route a try. Who knows how many minutes (hours?) on the phone that saved me.