The one thing that does irritate me with short stays is when an owner snags a premium holiday reservation at the 11 month window and then posts it here to rent out to non owners.
Where do you see this happening?
In the DVC rent/trade board it states clearly:
If you are a DVC Member wanting to rent an existing reservation made using your own DVC points please submit a thread to be validated. The arrival date MUST be within 30 days and we would suggest using "Reservation for Rent" as the title. We will allow a maximum of two existing reservations to be offered within the last 12 months. Premium Plan members in good standing will be allowed to post up to 3 existing reservations within the last 12 months without regard to the arrival date.
So someone books at 11 months then holds onto it for 10 months until they can list it? And they can only do it twice a year? Unless they pay the Dis.
I think I might be the only one whose reaction was - wow, that might drive down the resale market a little giving me another buying opportunity to add to my stash.
Plenty of people said it. People who are forgetting that someday THEY might be the sellers...
So if I already own and purchase points resale after 4/2016 - Will I still have membership perks on the prior owned points or do I effectively loose all perks after a resale purchase from this day forward? What am I missing here? Can't I just use membership perks on my old ownerships from this day forward? Thanks for clarifying!
Why would it erase the perks you get from having a direct membership? If you sold that, sure. But if you still have it, why would that happen?
Thanks, Bumbershoot. I've been doing this DVC thing for 23 years so I am of course checking. But honestly I have a couple of GV weeks booked as I'm not sure which dates/location will work best for my large and spread out family yet so I am not too concerned or I would be checking a few times/day.
Oh good. Looking at sig and join date I wasn't able to determine how long you've been a member of DVC. Glad you know already. (and they had somewhat recently started doing waitlists correctly, then stopped again...so some people were getting confused!)
think that the flurry of all these changes, in the parks as well as DVC, is probably the result of Shanghai
They can say it all they want. But Shanghai should be Shanghai. It should have its own budget and they should use their credit and realize that soon enough Shanghai will be generating its own money. (or so they hope. I can't imagine it. DH came home with asthma from the pollution there, and he's not asthmatic, so I don't know why anyone would want to go outside there and stay all day)
If they made bad decisions and didn't properly fund their construction, I think it's rotten of them to put it onto DVC owners. And to be doing all this cost-cutting. Their poor decisions shouldn't impact us, IMO.
ok so some are talking about adding points that are direct after a resale purchase. how does that help? does it suddenly give you back all perks you might not have had? i assume no. i assume you only would keep what you were grandfathered in before a change. for example i purchased about 2013. i can't use points for cruises or regular disney hotels. but i keep my perks before today. . . for now. so if i buy points now direct i lock myself in if they change anything else going forward? i don't suddenly get access to older things like the points on cruises and hotels from the property that aren't dvc?
? If you add direct points, then you are now a direct member. You can only use the directly purchased points for a cruise or a normal hotel. But YOU are a member and get the member perks.
?????????? For real?
Saving about $60 per point x 310 points is almost $20,000. There is a HUGE SAVINGS difference in resale vs direct. Don't know your agenda but if you can't be honest to present your opinion you obviously know it's not good.
I think that person is taking 20K, dividing it by 40ish years, then by 12 months. Saying it's "only" $40 or whatever a month. That's an odd way to look at things! After all, when looking at buying things on credit in a smart way, we're supposed to see how MUCH it will cost over 40 years; not look at how cheap that monthly payment is, right?
It was the link under the notices on the website.
