Cost of wilderness lodge 2?

[jerseyduke]

I think it was a fairly short time. But I'd never seen a resort that went on sale so close to opening either.

Yes, now that you state that, I remember that being part of the 'abnormality', the whole process being expedited.

 

[_auroraborealis_]

Well, Poly sales aren't tearing it up. AllEars says February sales were under 100k points again, for the third time since October. Meanwhile, from 2010-October 2015, that happened a total of once. The number doesn't include VGC, Aulani or OKW, and it's realistic to think they sold 5000 points at Aulani, at least.

http://allears.net/news/top-news.htm?id=2673

Have to wonder if they're pricing themselves to slow sales, but also if it has any real impact when they can book things as cash.

 

[jerseyduke]

Well, Poly sales aren't tearing it up. AllEars says February sales were under 100k points again, for the third time since October. Meanwhile, from 2010-October 2015, that happened a total of once. The number doesn't include VGC, Aulani or OKW, and it's realistic to think they sold 5000 points at Aulani, at least.

http://allears.net/news/top-news.htm?id=2673

Have to wonder if they're pricing themselves to slow sales, but also if it has any real impact when they can book things as cash.

Very interesting AB.

They could be reaching a cap.
They could also be going with the sell less at a higher price to make more idea.
I also wonder how the Polynesian offering plays into account. I for one was planning on buying a fixed week one bedroom...until i heard there were no one bed rooms...so i didn't buy there.

One fly in the ointment is I do believe DVC has to pay the MFs on all declared, but unsold points; one (small) reason not to slow sales down.

Personally I think they are just reaching the max as to what people are willing to(or able to) pay.

 

[wdrl]

One fly in the ointment is I do believe DVC has to pay the MFs on all declared, but unsold points; one (small) reason not to slow sales down.

Disney Vacation Development (not DVC) doesn't seem concerned about being liable for the maintenance fees on the declared-but-unsold points. In January 2016, DVD declared 894,232 points for PVB, but it still had over 600,000 points from the initial declaration that were declared-but unsold. Since PVB was only averaging about 80,000 points in monthly sales, it didn't need to make another declaration in January; DVD had enough inventory to support sales for at least another six or seven months.

If DVD was concerned about paying maintenance fees*, it probably wouldn't have added another 894,232 points to the DVC inventory. As tjkraz posted on another thread, DVD probably made the declaration at PVB to compensate for inventory that was temporarily unavailable at VWL, AKV, BWV, and BCV due to their refurbishment.

* - DVD has the option of either paying the annual maintenance fee amount for each point it owns, or satisfying any shortfalls in a condominium association's budget. DVD has chosen this second option for every DVC resort.