Out of curiosity, are the certain use years that are more necessary than others? What would the criteria be that they are looking at? Certain events or is it just related to certain times of the year?
Right! Since I've been watching the last couple months of AKL, I've seen $140 get taken and $122 pass.
fingers crossed
our $135pp AKL got taken in March, that was our first go, this being our second. Not desperate, but I am desperate to book for next October ASAP 
That's my curiosity... is there a pattern to use years that are likely to get taken or not?
If that secret got out, it would be the equivalent of nuclear launch codes being compromised to Disney lol. It would be DEFCON 1, black helicopters, and Mickey would be escorted to his bunker. End of Days type stuff.
Despite the rumors of a room full of drunk monkies - I think they use the same staff that designed Stich's great escape.
I asked about this on the FB page for DVC Fan and got 1-2 weeks. My closing date on my contracts is 8/15; so I'm hoping that the closing will happen by the following week so I can have the funds by early Sept.
I am on day 40 of my BLT - first timer and it’s killing me. I had figured at this point that it didn’t get actually submitted when I was told it was but I guess it’s just a BLT back log?
This is my first time trying a resale contract, so I'm still figuring things out, too. I would have assumed that they would process the ROFRs in FIFO (First In, First Out) order, or something close to that. But based on other pass/fail reports here, that is not how it works. Maybe they group things based on resorts? I guess they don't want us to be able to predict / know ahead of time. Hang in there, and we'll find out soon enough.
If there is a system, I don't think it will have to do with Disney needing specific Use Years. Once they have them back, they just absorb those points and can issue them out as any Use Year and in any size contract.
And to add more, while use years can be changed, all points need to be from the same unit. If you want to buy 400 points, but the most they have from any one unit is 300, you’ll need to wait until they can obtain 100 more points (hello ROFR) from that unit to combine into the 400 point contract you want to buy.
And this is why I think you see some outliers where they will buy a contract back at a higher rate than others- they need to fulfill a request for someone.
As a quick follow up do we know they follow this practice or just from letter of law they are supposed to? I’ve grown cynical over the years with the various point chart moves and sometimes question whether they actually follow these rules or not. Is there some level of audit/transparency we have to confirm they follow this rule similar to how some members were able to assess point charts to show they didn’t?
