I feel like they’re taking back all these inventories to get ready for their next round of incentives and discouraging resales. Blue card benefits are almost nonexistent now but the biggest perks with paying close to resale prices are no ROFR and points are unrestricted.
Buy direct!
I think at this point you are right. We have one direct contract and one resale and I'm seriously considering adding a VGF if the one I'm waiting on falls through just to bypass how long the resale process takes. I just hope I hear back in the near-ish future.
First page of this thread is great for looking at trends! If get deals like that, keep submitting until slips through.
Yes, It sure does seem that way!
I switched to buying direct because we plan on staying at both Riviera and DLT, want the unrestricted points, and in spite of the savings are no longer fans of the extended timeline required for resale. I know one strategy is to just keep putting in lowball offer after offer after offer, because sooner or later one will slip past ROFR. No doubt that works, but it requires unlimited time and patience, since it can make a process that normally stretches on for months anyway even longer.
And you literally get the points within a couple of hours. We bought some direct last month in addition to what we were trying to get resale. Now, we are already DVC members, so this was an add-on, but we called our DVC guy, Tony, and received paperwork that is all signed digitally and the points were in our account within a couple of hours. It was incredible!
Oh! I like that strategy!
. I already want to buy some VGF2 once my member number comes through 
but doubting I get anything until April (assuming it passes).
I did not include cc and fees. You pay that anyway with resale.
I’ve seen anywhere from less than 2 weeks to over 3 months. Longer ones cause by problem with the contract.
