companies that rent out DVC points FOR Member?

[Bearval]

They won’t go after a broker unless that broker is renting their own points to a degree that turns those memberships they own into a commercial enterprise.

They are not going to decide that an owner is violating the commercial purpose clause simply because they use a broker.

It will always come down to the volume of rentals an owner is doing that shifts them from renting within the rules, and their legal right, and renting to a degree and pattern that DVC considers is an owner who is in it for a commercial purpose.

Any owner who rents a few reservations, even if it is every year, and through a broker, is not going to be considered an owner who has shifted into the commercial purpose realm.

Thank you for the clarification. Unfortunately we have seen how Disney as a whole in the past years has done a bunch of "moneygrabs". We all expected the yearly ticket price increases but now they are no better than Frontier Airlines with all the added fees from getting rid of Magical express, paid fast passes, paying extra for blue cards holders for perks etc. I just get the sense that they will eventually classify third party businesses as not acceptable since they are a business for profit that can have a negative impact for WDW bookings.

 

[airjay75]

Thank you for the clarification. Unfortunately we have seen how Disney as a whole in the past years has done a bunch of "moneygrabs". We all expected the yearly ticket price increases but now they are no better than Frontier Airlines with all the added fees from getting rid of Magical express, paid fast passes, paying extra for blue cards holders for perks etc. I just get the sense that they will eventually classify third party businesses as not acceptable since they are a business for profit that can have a negative impact for WDW bookings.

Disney doesn't even know you rented your points through a broker. All they know is that a member made a reservation using their ownership with the names given. And, even then, they don't actually know it was a rental - you could be making a reservation in the name of your friends or family. There may be other ways Disney decides to make the business of the brokers more difficult, but it's not going to come because an owner chose to use them to rent out some of their points.

If Disney takes action against individual DVC owners renting own their points, it is likely not going to be anyone renting out their points through a broker for custom bookings (confirmed reservations are a different story, although even doing that occasionally through a broker isn't likely to attract much attention from DVC). Owners renting through brokers are not typically the owners looking to maximize their rental returns for profit and are just using the brokers for how easy it is to monetize some excess points.

 

[Brian Noble]

They are not going to decide that an owner is violating the commercial purpose clause simply because they use a broker.

For what it is worth, Wyndham did at one point define "commercial use" to include the use of third-party commercial web sites for marketing. I don't think that lasted very long, but it was reported by a few folks---those folks may have been wrong, of course.

I think we are a long way away from Disney doing anything similar, and I don't think they ever will. So, ultimately I agree with @Sandisw here: they (very probably) aren't going to do that.