hi VIPdisneygal
Your heads-up advice is timely and greatly appreciated. Like mary-j, I would have bid/bought a propertyBEFORE contacting LL to tell them I'd want to apply my certificate.
In hindsight,on checking the E-mail I got from LL Community advising me ofmy new VIP Contributor status, I now see in the small print a note to the effect that one needs to contact LL BEFORE going to bid or buy a travel package. Of course, in the excitement of receiving the good news about becoming a VIP, Ifailed to read the whole E-mail.
curtiejoe