Gold Partner Card soft landing ?
Oct 17, 2014, 11:09 am
#1
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Gold Partner Card soft landing ?
I was always under the impression that a Gold Partner card was not eligible for a silver soft landing. However Mrs O has just had such a thing (certainly nowhere near silver on her account)
Have I misunderstood the regs, have they changed, or has someone made an error in our favour.
Also means I have an extra partner silver to assign this year
Have I misunderstood the regs, have they changed, or has someone made an error in our favour.
Also means I have an extra partner silver to assign this year
Oct 17, 2014, 11:10 am
#2
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Gold Partner Card soft landing ?
As far as I know / assumed, a Gold partner card is treated like any other Gold card and thus would expect there to be a soft landing?
Oct 17, 2014, 11:52 am
#3
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There is supposed to be no soft landing, ie she should revert to whatever tier she should have been on, after completion of this membership year, had she not had the Gold partner card.
It wouldn't surprise me if the systems couldn't handle such a thing.
It wouldn't surprise me if the systems couldn't handle such a thing.
Oct 17, 2014, 12:10 pm
#4
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Mrs.TT1F had a soft landing to silver earlier this year - until I bumped her back up.. I didn't realise it was meant to be any different..
Oct 17, 2014, 12:12 pm
#5
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I think this has been mentioned before that even though they should drop down to their original tier, the reality is the IT system wouldn't do this.
I thought the question the OP was going to ask is if a GGL could use the partner card to award themselves to retain Gold if they didn't achieve 1500 TPs. Which I think the answer is no.
I thought the question the OP was going to ask is if a GGL could use the partner card to award themselves to retain Gold if they didn't achieve 1500 TPs. Which I think the answer is no.