kristenrice
NOT just an ambulance driver
- Joined
- Apr 25, 2006
I've been reading about the increasing difficulty that people have when trying to book studios and how it can be difficult, even at 11 months sometimes. It seems that the problem may have been magnified when DVC lowered the minimum point requirement to just 50 points for new members which increased the amount of OWNERS without changing the amount of available units.
I am a very "simple" person so here is how I will explain my question, please forgive me if this makes no sense
Let's take a week in January at HHI...
A studio for the week is 54 points, a 1BR is 108, a 2BR is 146 and a GV is 213 for a total of 521 points. Let's say that DVC sold those points to 5 different owners as (5) 100 point contracts and each owner wanted to stay for that one week....see the problem?? They have 5 owners but only ONE of them has enough points to book a room (the studio) for the week. DVC didn't "oversell", in fact, they aren't even sold out since they still have 21 points left. Even with banking and borrowing, it would be impossible for all 5 of those owners to use their points over that week, correct?
Is this the problem we are seeing with studio availability across DVC as a whole? The amount of POINTS that were sold were completely legit, but it would seem like there are more OWNERS with small contracts that can only afford studios than there are studios in the system. They didn't oversell the points, they oversold the small contracts, right?
I am a very "simple" person so here is how I will explain my question, please forgive me if this makes no sense
Let's take a week in January at HHI...
A studio for the week is 54 points, a 1BR is 108, a 2BR is 146 and a GV is 213 for a total of 521 points. Let's say that DVC sold those points to 5 different owners as (5) 100 point contracts and each owner wanted to stay for that one week....see the problem?? They have 5 owners but only ONE of them has enough points to book a room (the studio) for the week. DVC didn't "oversell", in fact, they aren't even sold out since they still have 21 points left. Even with banking and borrowing, it would be impossible for all 5 of those owners to use their points over that week, correct?
Is this the problem we are seeing with studio availability across DVC as a whole? The amount of POINTS that were sold were completely legit, but it would seem like there are more OWNERS with small contracts that can only afford studios than there are studios in the system. They didn't oversell the points, they oversold the small contracts, right?