Direct with backdated 2024 points - available for any Use Year?

[HyperspaceMountainPilot]

Over the years, they have offered free developer points as part of the incentive.

So, nothing to prevent that. But those were not at the home resort they were selling, but at SSR.

Wait, how did this work? Buy 400 points at AUL and get 25 points at SSR free?

 

[Brian Noble]

Not permanently. It was similar to OTUP, but neither tied to making a reservation nor limited to 24.

 

[Girlstar30]

Can she log into your DISboards account? She can get all the help she needs just by posting here!

She hates disboard because she says ever since we bought DVC and i discovered disboards she has lost me lolll

 

[Sandisw]

Wait, how did this work? Buy 400 points at AUL and get 25 points at SSR free?

I can’t remember the details but it was the incentive vs $$ off. We got them when we bought BLT in 2009.

The number you got was based on how many points purchased.

They were basically OtU points to use that year.

 

[maui22]

During 2007-2008, I believe they were marketed as a free stay promotion. Buy resort x and get ___ points for a free stay at SSR. I want to say it was geared towards SSR and possibly AKV contracts. I don’t recall it applying for BLT. However, they did offer the free cruise for all three of those resorts at some point in the 2009-2011 timeframe. Maybe even GCV?

Those were dark storms clouds because people used this as a loophole for a cheaper vacation at a deluxe resort. There were some people bragging on the resort forums and social media had its share of posts as well. They showed the math of All Stars price for a deluxe and bragged that DVC loans didn’t show on their credit.

 

[PolyRob]

I also remember DVC offering a "free" week in an SSR studio when buying PVB back in 2017 during the final push to sell it out.

 

[maui22]

I also remember DVC offering a "free" week in an SSR studio when buying PVB back in 2017 during the final push to sell it out.

Good to know. I didn’t remember that one, but we thought we were done with points forever…lol. I do recall the free points for life https://dvcnews.com/dvc-program/fin...-life-offer-at-copper-creek-polynesian-aulani

 

[Cfabar1]

Oh boy. I’d love to own VGC! Not that Westin isn’t good… but currently there is no comparison to having a VGC contract. A true league of its own.

Being so close to WDW, we are extremely unlikely to ever buy DVC in California, and probably unlikely to ever visit California for the parks... I have stayed at the Disneyland hotel, once, years ago when they hosted a work conference. I was extremely impressed with that property, and it will always have a special place in my heart, but practically DVC ownership doesn't make sense to me out in California or Hawaii....

Does the math make sense at this juncture to acquire VGC points? I don't track that resort at all, so I am truly just asking.... Does the life of the contract equate to a reasonable cost per night? Or is it just that the only way to stay there is to own there, so it becomes kind of irrelevant what the annual cost is?

From what I recall, the points chart is comparable to VGF in some ways - or at least was when I looked at the travel periods we go to WDW I think, but that was years ago...

 

[Cfabar1]

Those were dark storms clouds because people used this as a loophole for a cheaper vacation at a deluxe resort. There were some people bragging on the resort forums and social media had its share of posts as well. They showed the math of All Stars price for a deluxe and bragged that DVC loans didn’t show on their credit.

Wow... very sad...

 

[Cfabar1]

Good to know. I didn’t remember that one, but we thought we were don’t with points forever…lol. I do recall the free points for life https://dvcnews.com/dvc-program/fin...-life-offer-at-copper-creek-polynesian-aulani

As I recall the VGF "fire sale" worked somewhat like this as well...

 

[HyperspaceMountainPilot]

Being so close to WDW, we are extremely unlikely to ever buy DVC in California, and probably unlikely to ever visit California for the parks... I have stayed at the Disneyland hotel, once, years ago when they hosted a work conference. I was extremely impressed with that property, and it will always have a special place in my heart, but practically DVC ownership doesn't make sense to me out in California or Hawaii....

Does the math make sense at this juncture to acquire VGC points? I don't track that resort at all, so I am truly just asking.... Does the life of the contract equate to a reasonable cost per night? Or is it just that the only way to stay there is to own there, so it becomes kind of irrelevant what the annual cost is?

From what I recall, the points chart is comparable to VGF in some ways - or at least was when I looked at the travel periods we go to WDW I think, but that was years ago...

So I think the short answer is that if you would always stay at Grand Cal it is a huge savings, if would stay “on property” at one of the 3 hotels, it’s still going to work out cheaper than paying cash rates for 95% of people, assuming you don’t exclusively travel at the cheapest hotel and only travel when you can get exceptional discounts, but if you’re willing to stay at one of the many, many hotels that have cropped up on the perimeter of the parks over the past 5 years, it’s not going to beat likely cash prices for those hotels at $250/pt. For me (and perhaps others who have young children or a family member who needs to limit walking and/or take mid-day breaks), its location value is far higher than the cash value.

 

[HyperspaceMountainPilot]

Oh boy. I’d love to own VGC! Not that Westin isn’t good… but currently there is no comparison to having a VGC contract. A true league of its own.

For those of you who think I was joking…my husband just spent 2 minutes waxing poetic about why he likes the Westin better than Grand Cal — the TL;dr is short elevator ride to lounge with good coffee and bagel.