UPDATE: Wyndham has pulled the offer as it was apparent you could easily manipulate screenshots.
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Wyndham is about to launch an incredibly lucrative points transfer promotion to try and woo SPG loyalists.
Between 12 PM EST to 11:59 PM EST on October 11th, for every 1 SPG point you donate, you’ll receive 4 Wyndham points, as well as a status match to your current SPG status.
If you hold the American Express Platinum card, this means you’ll be matched to Wyndham platinum status.
For those live internationally, Wyndham hotels is a hotel conglomerate concentrating on the low to mid tier with brands such as Days Inn & Howard Johnson. However, they do have a few high end properties that are worth looking at.
Wyndham does have an interesting rewards program where it costs 15,000 Wyndham points to stay at any Wyndham hotel, for any given day. That means a stay at your local Days Inn costs the same as an all-inclusive resort in the Bahamas.
With the 4x transfer bonus, this means 3,750 SPG points will give you one free night at any Wyndham hotel in the world.
While most Wyndham places domestically are on the lower end of the spectrum, internationally you’ll find many four star hotels that are definitely worth 3,750 SPG points per night.
There are a few rules:
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–>You must have less than 499 points remaining in your account. You’ll need donate ALL your points to charity.
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–>You can’t have any external transfers in the past 24 hours. This means you can’t merely transfer most of your SPG points to Marriott and then donate the rest.
Once you’ve donated away your points, you’ll need to send the screenshots confirming your points donation and one showing your account activity page to wyndhamrewards.fulfillment@wyn.com.
While this is quite the lucrative promotion, I’m quite stunned that Wyndham merely requires screenshots for proof.
It’s quite easy to edit HTML code and with Wyndham unable to actually verify any donations, I’m afraid this promotion is ripe for abuse, so I’m curious see how Wyndham responds to any fraudulent fake transfers.
Using Chrome’s Inspect Tool in less than two minutes
