Our original purchase in '06 was directly from DVC. Cold called the DVC 800 number and purchased that night, not even knowing there were other alternatives.
Our first add-on a few years later was a resale from the Timeshare Store. I checked online for quite a few months until the perfect contract we were looking for appeared. That went without a hitch, and we were able to get points at a sold out resort for a very reasonable price.
The add-on we just completed (after the announcement of the new resale restrictions) was directly from Disney. I guess I fell right into their scheming little web. While the new restrictions that have already been put in place wouldn't have necessarily impact us (we always use our points at DVC resorts), I was concerned about future further erosions of priviledges/perks for resale contracts, and the fact that they may not grandfather changes again next time. You don't even get the advantage of zero closing costs when purchasing from Disney any more.
Please, no one do the math for me. I don't even want to know what that decision cost me.
As a point of comparison, I also paid sticker price for the last car I bought.![]()
do some of the current resale contracts then not carry the current restrictions ? what is a pita contract ?
we were in disney this week and our (rather seemingly unmotivated) guide was quite brief in his explanation: for BLT, price now as 140 usd a point, minus 16 usd a point for a purchase around 220 points, plus the number of points you purchase from use year 2010 without paying those maintenance dues
The guy at the booth who had sent us to the guide however had told us to ask both about the disney cruise incentive as well as a discount. I'm guessing the discount was those 16 usd and the disney cruise the 2010 points you'd receive ????? or could we have negotiated a better deal ?
i thought then about buying resale, but reading now about all those restrictions, it's making me hesitate (i live in europe and liked the possibility of using points for disneyland paris).
also, the guy told me we could only buy directly from disney as long as we were in florida ? is this true ?