100% resale??

[hudakjr]

Hi, Can I hear from any long term resale only members? I’m assuming a lot of people have both direct and resale. We have resale and are thinking about adding on. Direct is a little tempting due to the ease and no restrictions but it is $$$. We just got back from our 1st DVC trip and everytime I showed my white card I got the DVC discount on purchases, but we didn’t do any dining so not sure if it would have worked with dining.
At one point someone asked if I was eligible for discounts and I said I’m DVC but resale owner and she had no idea what I was talking about and gave me the discount after I showed the card.

I just want to hear from any long term resale owner so only and there thoughts.

Thanks

 

[reck]

Had the same thing happen on two trips so far this year, showed DVC member card on MDE, and got every discount at shopping and dining. I am 100% resale.

 

[Brian Noble]

If you knew that if you only owned resale, you'd never again get a discount that required Membership Extras, would it change your mind about what direction you'd go?

 

[RoseGold]

This is a five figure discussion. I don’t think $20 on some merch, which can be suspended at any time, should be the deciding factor. And you get a lot of the discounts with an AP or the Disney chase card.

I can think of reasons to spend the money and buy direct, but that discount isn’t even in the top ten for me.

 

[supersnoop]

I own five contracts, all resale. Four of them are pre-2016, so I've got blue-card perks. I remember, early on, thinking about adding a direct contract, but the value never made sense; hence my one later contract.

 

[Straulin]

We just bought our first resale contract. Looking into this, the chase visa gives discounts, annual passes do, and tables in wonderland. All in all, one or more of those should suffice for most things. We have the visa and have used it plenty of times.

 

[crisi]

Like Supersnoop, my points are pre-2016 - but we've seldom used the perks. We don't go often enough or stay for long enough for annual passes. We don't tend to eat at the restaurants that are discounted. We do use merchandise discounts - but not to the tune of more than maybe $100 in savings for the whole trip. And we don't want to stay at Riviera or cruise on points - so restrictions like that don't make a difference to us.

 

[Nursemanit]

I was kinda surprised to see how much overlap the Disney visa has with merch discounts from Blue Card.

The only perk I might miss would be doing an event but that would be a one and done and not worth the thousands extra I would have paid to get a home resort I wanted.

That being said if you want VGF as your home resort - buy direct as the resale is way too high vs direct. Probably the only time now and in the future a new owner will get direct for so close to resale.You literally could make up the difference on perks

 

[zachatak]

6 contracts, all resale. First one went to ROFR the day in April of 2016 when they first announced the restrictions. We were lucky and those pts were grandfathered and gave us blue card. The perks aren't all that and we have zero interest in Riviera so to us, the savings are worth it everytime.

 

[DVCanadian]

Not really sure what your question is.
Just tell people you are DVC, let them figure out eligibility.

Long term resale owners can be equivalent to direct for discounts etc. we bought resale in 2011 and 2013 and our points are not restricted like recent resale. Not sure if by “long term” you mean 5 years

I thought direct was expensive in 2011 and could never buy it now. There are cases for buying direct but I’m not that buyer.

 

[wnielsen1]

I was kinda surprised to see how much overlap the Disney visa has with merch discounts from Blue Card.

The only perk I might miss would be doing an event but that would be a one and done and not worth the thousands extra I would have paid to get a home resort I wanted.

That being said if you want VGF as your home resort - buy direct as the resale is way too high vs direct. Probably the only time now and in the future a new owner will get direct for so close to resale.You literally could make up the difference on perks

The Disney Visa gets 20% off?

 

[shoegal9]

We just bought our first resale contract. Looking into this, the chase visa gives discounts, annual passes do, and tables in wonderland. All in all, one or more of those should suffice for most things. We have the visa and have used it plenty of times.

I’m holding out hope that Tables in Wonderland will come back one day- but I doubt it. It’s the thing we miss the most.

 

[sethschroeder]

You don't qualify and you are forcing CMs to 1) know the rules and 2) want to confront you about not qualifying.

Is what it is but calling it how I see it.

Directs value is in the APs and staying at future resorts. Everything else is fluff in the grand scheme. Possibly moonlight magic if you have ultimate flexibility as well to do those.

 

[Nursemanit]

The Disney Visa gets 20% off?

no 10% , and you don't get 20% off either other than certain bad restaurants that have to beg you to eat there. It is funny how people will lie to justify paying 40% more for their blue card.

They actually list the discounts you get - and really other than the Swan and Dolphin its 10% on dining

https://disneyvacationclub.disney.go.com/discounts-perks-offers

 

[BeachClub2014]

no 10% , and you don't get 20% off either other than certain bad restaurants that have to beg you to eat there. It is funny how people will lie to justify paying 40% more for their blue card.

They actually list the discounts you get - and really other than the Swan and Dolphin its 10% on dining

https://disneyvacationclub.disney.go.com/discounts-perks-offers

I must have missed it, but who lied? That's a pretty strong word to use. AFIW, when we bought points directly, the "perks" had little, if any sway, in our decision. Lot's of other very good reasons to buy points directly.

 

[wnielsen1]

no 10% , and you don't get 20% off either other than certain bad restaurants that have to beg you to eat there. It is funny how people will lie to justify paying 40% more for their blue card.

They actually list the discounts you get - and really other than the Swan and Dolphin its 10% on dining

https://disneyvacationclub.disney.go.com/discounts-perks-offers

Got it. You were talking about dining, not merch. My mistake.

 

[PalmettoPath]

no 10% , and you don't get 20% off either other than certain bad restaurants that have to beg you to eat there. It is funny how people will lie to justify paying 40% more for their blue card.

They actually list the discounts you get - and really other than the Swan and Dolphin its 10% on dining

https://disneyvacationclub.disney.go.com/discounts-perks-offers

The 20% is on Disney merchandise at Disney shops like the Emporium or so on. Some non-Disney shops will do 10% or 15%. Most dining is 10% if they offer it, as you noted. Edited to add that merch is 10% at Disneyland in many places. So we've always been interested in that difference between WDW and DLR.

 

[kanerf]

The only place I have seen the CMs very concerned about your Blue card eligibility is at the Epcot Members Lounge.

 

[Jenglish13]

The only place I have seen the CMs very concerned about your Blue card eligibility is at the Epcot Members Lounge.

Yes and very likely totwl now too.

 

[Princess Merida]

We've had our BWV resale contract since 2016. We aren't blue card because we missed the window by about 3 months. I have received the DVC merchandise discounts all but once at the Pandora gift shop, but was only denied when they first opened. I've also been offered the discount at multiple restaurants and showed the white card and also the digital card and received it. The annual pass discounts weren't worth the direct price to us because we wouldn't buy them every year. A good choice I suppose. Who would've thought Disney would pause the sale of annual passes repeatedly? :-( We are grandfathered to be able to use points at all of the resorts so that didn't factor in for us and the cruises are so high in point cost we didn't care if we had access to that. If you have FOMO, it could bother you that you are excluded from member events, but only you can decide if it's worth it to pay up for a few park after hours events with ice cream and drinks or a lounge to hang out in in Epcot or TOTWL. One day I will buy a second contract at AKV and VGF if Disney doesn't change too much more for the worse and they will both be resale. I won't care about the restrictions for Riviera because the point chart is similar to VGF and I'd much rather stay there. So my answer is stay resale. More points for less money. (I have not checked out the current price difference in VGF resale vs direct that everyone keeps talking about so if you're going VGF might be worth a look)