Are add-on incentives typical?

[ITGirl50]

Does Disney usually offer incentives to add-on 100 points (or more) at the resort they are currently selling?

I'm trying to figure out if the current offer at AKV is really a good deal. Right now I understand that you won't get 2008 points, but you get developer points at SSR. So, to me, the developer points are really a break-even deal.

In December 2007 we got 2007 and 2008 points, no 2007 MFs, $8 off per point toward down payment and 160 developer points to use anywhere when we wanted. We had to buy 225 points for this deal.

I didn't know if that was a different situation then just adding on 100 points.

 

[CraftyMouse]

They do always seem to offer something. Even when we bought back in '97 they had an incentive where you could use some of your first year's points to pay for the WDW hotel you were staying at on that trip. Nowadays it seems like the incentive is always about the same...a bit different here or there but essentially the same value. There's usually a $ amount off per point plus some developer points or other incentive.

 

[ACDSNY]

You might want to check on the 2008 points as we did receive them with our recent add on at AKV of a 100 points in addition to the developer points. The 2008 points just can't be used until May 2009.

 

[ITGirl50]

You might want to check on the 2008 points as we did receive them with our recent add on at AKV of a 100 points in addition to the developer points. The 2008 points just can't be used until May 2009.

What is your use year? Did you just get them a little late? Is that how it works? Maybe I mis-understood the deal.

 

[ACDSNY]

We purchased an AUG UY in June.

 

[drusba]

Incentives tend to change periodically and they have varied over the years but there has usually been something. I remember one mentioned above from years ago about applying amounts to your hotel stay if you bought while on site. In later part of 1990s/early 2000s, the "discounts" usually offered were not actual discounts; you could buy points and then sell back your first year points for $10 a point, then for a while it was $5 a point, and even up to $15 a point for a time at HH or Vero, which amount applied to the down payment. I cannot remember what size add-on you needed to get the buy back but the offered deal generated much discussion as to whether it was a good deal--I think the consensus was that at $10 a point it was just barely fair but at $5 the buyer could do better by just buying and then renting the first year points.

The marketing game of having a set price but then getting a straight discount off that price (with no need to sell back points) started with SSR and many believe that was also not a true discount -- what Disney did was to raise. over a fairly short period time, the price per point several times so that price went up significantly and thus it started giving a discount which effectively made the price what it most likely would have been had Disney raised prices on a slower schedule like it had done before.

Developer points is something I think started only in the last year or two. The current combination of point discount and developer points (isn't there also some credit like $500 or is that just for higher point purchases? )looks OK but it doesn't really look better than (or even as good as) some that were offered in 2007 when you got current points that could be used immediately plus developer points (for a while there was a "double developer points" deal) but the minimum puchase was higher than the current 100 points (to be able to get developer points -- it was only 100 to just get the $8 off at AKV)

In the end, you realy cannot rely on what happened before or try to guess as to what may happen in the future (Disney could just end all incentives, although that is unlikely because they are basically a good marketing tool--as it has learned, if you want to sell at $96 a point and get many interested in buying, you don't just set the price at $96, instead you first raise your price to $104 and then make it seem like the buyer is getting a great deal by taking $8 off). You should just evaluate what you think about current deal and take it or not take it without comparing to ones that happened before or in the hope that maybe a better one will come along.

 

[disneynutz]

Does Disney usually offer incentives to add-on 100 points (or more) at the resort they are currently selling?

I'm trying to figure out if the current offer at AKV is really a good deal. Right now I understand that you won't get 2008 points, but you get developer points at SSR. So, to me, the developer points are really a break-even deal.

In December 2007 we got 2007 and 2008 points, no 2007 MFs, $8 off per point toward down payment and 160 developer points to use anywhere when we wanted. We had to buy 225 points for this deal.

I didn't know if that was a different situation then just adding on 100 points.

When sales are slow, incentives increase. When sales pick up, incentives are reduced. Simple as that.

 

[ITGirl50]

Thank you for your replies. I'm just anxious about BLT. If that's too expensive, I didn't want to miss the only time they offered incentives on 100 add-on points. I'll just wait.

 

[disneynutz]

Thank you for your replies. I'm just anxious about BLT. If that's too expensive, I didn't want to miss the only time they offered incentives on 100 add-on points. I'll just wait.

I would guess that BLT will cost extra, have a 200+ point buy in and little if any incentives for the first wave of buyers. Like AKV, if sales slow, DVD will sweeten the pot.

 

[ITGirl50]

Have they ever forced 200 point add-on minimum at other new resorts? Wasn't Beach Club wildly popular too? I'm talking about adding on, not buying into DVC.