Loyalty Program Grace Period?


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My VIP account expired last night, and I renewed it this morning. It was about 12 hours difference from the time stamp on the e-mail notices I received.

Since we're in the middle of a loyalty program, do I no longer qualify for it? Is there a grace period for something like this?


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I would think that yes, it would disqualify you. You should probably PM one of the devs or contact customer support to see if they can make an exception or work something out if that is indeed the case.


 

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I am almost sure that Positron said that as long as you re-upped in 24 hours, it still "counted"

I would agree on PMing a dev though, to make sure


 

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It HAS to be in the same billing day.
Their billing days are calculated by GMT standards, so as long as you paid inside those 24hrs you are fine.
However, if your billing ended say, at March 28th 23:50 GMT, and you resub 15 minutes later making March 29th 00:05 GMT, you are SoL.

PM Zwill to make sure....
if they say no, just tell them that due the all the info that came out on the whole Loyalty Program and all the news and pictures you saw, you were just too awestruck to act in a timely fashion.
(Say that with a sarcastic tone, they'll get the point.) :P



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I've read about a few other cases like this and usually if you manage to catch it and correct it "within 24 hours" they'll still allow you to qualify. As the others said I'd probably contact customer support just to make sure everything's fine with that.


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Originally Posted by Dark Energon View Post
It HAS to be in the same billing day.
Their billing days are calculated by GMT standards, so as long as you paid inside those 24hrs you are fine.
However, if your billing ended say, at March 28th 23:50 GMT, and you resub 15 minutes later making March 29th 00:05 GMT, you are SoL.
Not true. Black Pebble said that you must have an active account at some point during each day in the loyalty period. If you have a 24 hour period from midnight GMT to midnight GMT where you aren't subbed, then you lose out, but as long as you are active at ANY time during EACH day in the loyalty program, you get your rewards.


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Originally Posted by ArwenDarkblade View Post
Since we're in the middle of a loyalty program, do I no longer qualify for it? Is there a grace period for something like this?
You should be fine.


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Originally Posted by Stone Daemon View Post
I would think that yes, it would disqualify you.
No. It should not.


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Originally Posted by Dark Energon View Post
It HAS to be in the same billing day.
Their billing days are calculated by GMT standards, so as long as you paid inside those 24hrs you are fine.
However, if your billing ended say, at March 28th 23:50 GMT, and you resub 15 minutes later making March 29th 00:05 GMT, you are SoL.
Absolutely wrong, unless this loyalty program is working differently from previous ones. We were told flat-out (back during the loyalty program for the Vanguard stuff) that as long as your subscription was active for part of each day, it counted as continuously subscribed.


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You should be fine, since you weren't unsubbed for a full day. Come April 18th, if something's askew, you can drop CS a line.


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It is interesting that loyalty programs bring out Black Pebble sightings, yet all the images of him are blurry like sasquatch photos... Hmm...




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Originally Posted by Black Pebble View Post
You should be fine, since you weren't unsubbed for a full day. Come April 18th, if something's askew, you can drop CS a line.
Thank you for confirming this! I somewhat remember now that someone mentioned the Vanguard program, but back then I was buying yearly subs and didn't think about it.


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Interesting question. My credit card tends to flag NCSoft purchases as potential fraud and won't put a note on the account that they are not so I do worry about losing out due to their sillyness (this is why I changed credit card once already, this one tends to query rather than just refuse to pay).

Good to know NCSoft can be flexible.





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