g00ner

Excellent just spent £39.16 for 10,000 points which makes a lot of sense to me.

Might do a few more.

AJLondon

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g00ner

u should have been charged $120 for 20,000 PC points and used 30,000 PC points from your account. When you cancelled you should have received $0 back and 50,000 PC points into your pc account.

AJLondon

Exactly!

GrizShel

I'm getting a message after I submit a cash + points option for reservation "We are sorry, you do not have enough points for this Reward Night. Learn how you can purchase points or transfer points to your account."

This is not true, I do have enough points. Is there any way around this problem?

Edit to add:
Worked when I used a CC already saved to my account.

demue

Currently I don't think it enforces the 40K limit on points purchases. I tried a booking where I would buy 70K points and it goes nicely all the way to the purchase site telling me that I agree to a 420 USD charge etc. Of course I don't want to buy them for now so it may still fail ultimately but my feeling tells me that it will go through just fine.

I second people's concerns on the repercussions of this and actually think no points purchases at all should count for status and if a reservation is cancelled the points should be removed and the chareg refunded, but then many others may disagree. Also it looks like ICHG sees this as a quick cash generator but some didn't think this through to the end I feel. Benefits are already so watered down, if now you can have a reliable 0.6 cent per point generator to restock your account and get Plat (+ bought Amb) for money then what is the purpose of staying at ICHG hotels for points collection anyway?

I just make award reservations with the points purchase option ... yada yada yada - you get the idea. One wonders. (Edited: on request I removed the quite detailed description of what one has to do to exploit this option)

Oh btw, if other posters would like me to remove sections of my post to limit people taking advantage of this loophole then please let me know. I will do so though I don't think it takes lots of brains to figure it out. Cheers

zacktravel

Does anyone know what kind of fee they are talking about? I found this under the terms that show up under the reward points booking options (I don't think it was there before). Anyone who cancelled check their CC?

"10. Priority Club members who cancel their Reward Night reservation will have their points used for that reservation re-deposited into the member's Priority Club account, and may be subjected to a processing fee. Priority Club members who do not cancel their Reward Night reservation by the cancellation deadline and do not use their reservation (no-show) are still subject to a no-show charge for the first night of the reservation, plus tax, per room, billed to the credit card used to guarantee the reservation upon booking. The points redeemed for the no-showed Reward Night reservation will be re-deposited into the member's Priority Club account."

soitgoes

In practice, you are only charged a fee if you cancel after the cancellation deadline as noted on your reservation.

ringbahn

I just booked 6 nights in a room for 5000pts+$60 per night and was told that 30000 points would be deducted from my account and 60000 points paid cash.When I look into my account,I find that they deducted 60000 points instead of 30000 and list 6 nights/15000 in my account.If I should cancel this stay,how many points will be refunded?

btw:still no free nights in my account,although having talked and written to Te European and the US customer service.They apologize and say it`s difficult and they`re still working at fixing the mistake.
I get the impression that the PC system doesn`t like me.

MrHalliday

I guess I was wrong.

Am shocked how well this remains under the mainstream radar,
only mentioned in the "lucky" blog so far.

I have bought 30K for $180, in three spaced transactions.
It is good to be spaced.

We will see if it still looks smart after a bit of time.......
I fantasize my purchase will turn into 6x PB nights at some lovely IC for $30/night.

Boghopper

I agree except where you can pay for four and get five nights. Then points alone is superior, I think.

mahajanvikas

I bought (well, points+cash, followed by a cancellation) 25000 points. That took me over the Platinum Status mark. The points show fine in my points total. However, my status is stuck at Gold!
The gold status upgrade was instant online but it never changed to Platinum

The "Other Activity" shows I earned 25,000 points. now if all earned points count towards status, surely, i should be Platinum or am I missing something here

Lorian

You didn't earn them?

g00ner

If normal point purchases count to your PC status then so should these reward night points.