DIS DVC 1000 Point Club (post #1 updated 02/10/2023)

[agie65]

Hi! My DH and I just purchased 170 more DVC points at Saratoga Springs which brings us up to a GRAND TOTAL of 1,000 DVC points . A fellow DVCer told me about this Thread when I made the last purchase and I am excited to join the 1,000 Point Club. Seems like a fun group from some of the posts I have read. We now own 395 points at Saratoga Springs and 605 points at Animal Kingdom. Saratoga Springs was our first purchase in 2008 - 225 points, just enough to spend one week in a 2 bedroom villa at Saratoga Springs. My DH's parents were kind enough to use their DVC points to let my family stay at Boardwalk Villas in 2007 and we knew right away that we wanted to become DVC members. Our four daughters still talk about how much fun that 1st trip to DisneyWorld was. We thought about buying into Boardwalk but we wanted a contract with more years on it so we toured Saratoga Springs and were hooked. Soon after that 1st purchase, my DH and I used some of our Saratoga Springs points to take a short 3-Day Disney Cruise to celebrate our Wedding Anniversary and we got bitten by the "cruise bug" - you know the sneaky little fellow that makes you want to take more cruises. Well, that cruise bug convinced us to purchase a second DVC membership - this time at Animal Kingdom. The first time we stayed at Animal Kingdom with our daughters was amazing. They completely fell in love with the African-themed decor this resort displays so well, not to mention the cute animals they have roaming around. Although my DH and I still love the beauty of Saratoga Springs, we usually stay at Animal Kingdom when our daughters are with us on trips because it is now their favorite resort of the two we own at. We have added on more DVC points each year since our first purchase in 2008 because we wanted to do more and more wonderful trips with our family. Plus, I will admit that buying more DVC points is addictive. We took our daughters on their first Disney Cruise in November of 2011 and, not a shock, they loved cruising. I know alot of DVC members do not use their points to cruise, but we do and now that our daughters were hooked like we are on cruising, we needed more points so we could take them on cruises which is why we made our most recent purchase of points. I don't see us making any more purchases of DVC points for awhile since we want to start paying off some of our plans first but you never know when the urge will strike and we may end up with more DVC points eventually. For now, we have enough points for my DH and I to take a Anniversary Cruise (without the kids) each year and do one family vacation a year with our daughters - alternating between a one week trip to Disneyworld or a 7 night cruise. With the "back-dated points we received from our most recent DVC purchase, we are surprising our daughters with a 4 day Bahama cruise on the newly re-imagined Disney Magic in less than 5 weeks. We don't plan on telling them until the day before we leave. I can't wait to see their reaction when we tell them. Anyway, glad to join the club and can't wait to read about some of the trips other members take with their points.

Welcome to the club.

 

[Purplejewel]

Thanks for the warm welcome. Does anyone know how I get my name added to the 1st post? Do I have to send a PM request to someone? Thanks!

 

[agie65]

Thanks for the warm welcome. Does anyone know how I get my name added to the 1st post? Do I have to send a PM request to someone? Thanks!

Jim, will do it automatically, as soon as he see it.

 

[kirkaliciasmom]

I only have 940 more points until I can join the club!

Same here! Lmbo!!!! As much as I want to add more, I just can't seem to do it.....yet!

 

[Debbie H]

Hopefully not. If circumstances required them to sell, they would then have to eventually sell it as a 1000 point block which very few could afford and might take a bath lowering the price just to get rid of it. I recommend never buying contracts larger than 200 points at a time as a safety if the economy ever tanks again and you need the money. You can buy 400-500 points at a time, just break it up into smaller contracts. The ideal small contract size to me would be 50, they get the most return if you absolutely have to sell. They get picked up very fast. Yes you have more to track, but it is worth it if you ever had to sell IMHO. And for clarification, I'm small potatoes with only 300 points so I may not represent the thoughts of a much more fortunate group of DVC members such as this group. I am in awe of your abilities to rack up the points. With my son now in his first year of college at about $45K, just not in the cards for more points although he did say that for his first Christmas break, he wanted to spend a week at WDW to reenergize. So we are going New Years Eve for 5 days. Cannot wait to try out the magic bands. Sorry for the rambling.

We bought 2000 points in May 1992. Glad we did it this way. Would not want to deal with a bunch of small contracts.

 

[Bellecruiser]

wow. 2000 points at once and in 1992 on top of that!!!!wow wow wow. I am in awe of your planning ability and foresight. We looked at buying points then, but thought it was too expensive, and it was for us then. But we could have purchased a small amount, and added on slowly. Sigh. Oh well...

 

[oldfastpassxpert]

Did you buy your points from the secondary market?

 

[JimC]

Hi! My DH and I just purchased 170 more DVC points at Saratoga Springs which brings us up to a GRAND TOTAL of 1,000 DVC points . A fellow DVCer told me about this Thread when I made the last purchase and I am excited to join the 1,000 Point Club. Seems like a fun group from some of the posts I have read.

We now own 395 points at Saratoga Springs and 605 points at Animal Kingdom. Saratoga Springs was our first purchase in 2008 - 225 points, just enough to spend one week in a 2 bedroom villa at Saratoga Springs. My DH's parents were kind enough to use their DVC points to let my family stay at Boardwalk Villas in 2007 and we knew right away that we wanted to become DVC members. Our four daughters still talk about how much fun that 1st trip to DisneyWorld was. We thought about buying into Boardwalk but we wanted a contract with more years on it so we toured Saratoga Springs and were hooked. Soon after that 1st purchase, my DH and I used some of our Saratoga Springs points to take a short 3-Day Disney Cruise to celebrate our Wedding Anniversary and we got bitten by the "cruise bug" - you know the sneaky little fellow that makes you want to take more cruises. Well, that cruise bug convinced us to purchase a second DVC membership - this time at Animal Kingdom. The first time we stayed at Animal Kingdom with our daughters was amazing. They completely fell in love with the African-themed decor this resort displays so well, not to mention the cute animals they have roaming around. Although my DH and I still love the beauty of Saratoga Springs, we usually stay at Animal Kingdom when our daughters are with us on trips because it is now their favorite resort of the two we own at. We have added on more DVC points each year since our first purchase in 2008 because we wanted to do more and more wonderful trips with our family. Plus, I will admit that buying more DVC points is addictive. We took our daughters on their first Disney Cruise in November of 2011 and, not a shock, they loved cruising. I know alot of DVC members do not use their points to cruise, but we do and now that our daughters were hooked like we are on cruising, we needed more points so we could take them on cruises which is why we made our most recent purchase of points.

I don't see us making any more purchases of DVC points for awhile since we want to start paying off some of our plans first but you never know when the urge will strike and we may end up with more DVC points eventually. For now, we have enough points for my DH and I to take a Anniversary Cruise (without the kids) each year and do one family vacation a year with our daughters - alternating between a one week trip to Disneyworld or a 7 night cruise.

With the "back-dated points we received from our most recent DVC purchase, we are surprising our daughters with a 4 day Bahama cruise on the newly re-imagined Disney Magic in less than 5 weeks. We don't plan on telling them until the day before we leave. I can't wait to see their reaction when we tell them.

Anyway, glad to join the club and can't wait to read about some of the trips other members take with their points.

Welcome You are on the list.

 

[Bellecruiser]

Hi There,

We just bought 200 points at VGF! That brings us to 1385 total points, and we are soooo excited!!! Love my DVC!

 

[corpcomp]

I just want to know how all of you can afford that much money! I only have 225 pts at the boardwalk and cannot afford to buy any more at the price they are charging! Also how can you afford maintence fees?

Combination of things including receiving points from parents, retirees who have excess cash, adding on over many years as they could and frankly there are a lot of wealthy people out there. This is only 90 people across more than 120,000 in DVC (approx.) so that is not even a tenth of 1 percent of those that own. Across the US, that percentage represents those families making over $5 million a year.

Average owner last I checked had about 300 points so you are not far off. Do not feel poor. Most in this country cannot afford to buy lots of points at DVC. I have 300 points and with a kid in an expensive college ($45K - well moderately expensive versus the $60K colleges in the northeast), have no interest in adding on. And I am sending him to the college's study abroad program next summer and that is about another $16K but worth it for the euro exposure, the courses, culture and hopefully he will find a rich girl..

 

[JimC]

Hi There,

We just bought 200 points at VGF! That brings us to 1385 total points, and we are soooo excited!!! Love my DVC!

Got it. Congratulations

 

[DougEMG]

After selling and buying some contracts I'm now at 2,190 points.

 

[JimC]

After selling and buying some contracts I'm now at 2,190 points.

Got it You moved up a notch with the shuffling of contracts.

 

[agie65]

Added 200 more total to 4470.

 

[DougEMG]

Added 200 more total to 4470.

You're getting real close to being on the top of the list

 

[Sur]

Aye ca rumba!

 

[michelleiada]

WOW! I read through this entire thread. I'm in awe! I can't imagine having 1000+ points. So envious! I love my 250 BCV points and definitely plan to add on at some point but with two in private college, now just isn't the time. Congrats to all of you. For now...I can only dream!

 

[JimC]

Added 200 more total to 4470.

Got it. Congratulations

 

[agie65]

You're getting real close to being on the top of the list

Not trying to be just on the top, but can not pass some good deals. Addonitis is bad. VGF is running on the head as well due to coming price increase.

 

[kritter]

We are at 1,020 points!!