Disney, let's make a deal...

[lillasmom]

Has anyone tried or heard of someone negotiating with a property they own to buy points at SSR, or does Disney just tell you that you have to sell the other property on your own and buy SSR outright?

 

[Happy Birthday Cat]

I have never heard of them buying back any property except through ROFR. I know some owners who sold their old resort when the BCV went on the market, but I had not ever heard of a negotiated sale through Disney.

HBC

 

[Patty3]

Interesting question. Thanks for posting this.

 

[bridgemanva]

We asked about this at Member Homecoming when we purchased a block of points at SSR. Because in addition to our OKW 330pts we had two smaller contracts (vb50/bcv100pts) that I've found cumbersome in points management since we don't have enough points to benefit from 11 month home resort booking window, and we often need grand villa accomodations for bringing family so SSR was the perfect solution. But, Disney wasn't buying back or "trading in" -- off the record we were referred to a reseller; but having lurked on these boards for a while I wasn't concerned I knew we'd be able to sell our contracts if we needed to.

 

[Dean]

They will not trade in or buy back, period.

 

[lillasmom]

Thanks for the info, that's what I figured but I decided it wouldn't hurt to ask the experts!

 

[Dean]

They resale companies won't do this either. Even if they had two people wanting to "trade" contracts, they'd treat it as two different sales with two commissions. Legally it has to be separate with two closings and two ROFR.

 

[Simba's Mom]

Last year I asked our guide about doing this as a way to purchase some OKW points that were available. Unfortunately, he said we'd have to sell the existing points we wanted to sell on the resale market, that Disney wouldn't allow us to trade. Wish we could have!

 

[d-r]

I have 100 ssr points that I would trade for 100 wlv points, April use year.

 

[JudyS]

Originally posted by d-r
I have 100 ssr points that I would trade for 100 wlv points, April use year.

Wow, I wonder if Disney would have a problem with this sort of trade? Has anyone here tried this?

 

[Dean]

Originally posted by JudyS
Wow, I wonder if Disney would have a problem with this sort of trade? Has anyone here tried this?

Disney would treat this as two separate transactions. The advantage to a direct exchange like this is you can manipulate the prices to make sure things go through.

 

[JudyS]

Originally posted by Dean
Disney would treat this as two separate transactions. The advantage to a direct exchange like this is you can manipulate the prices to make sure things go through.

Makes sense. Thanks, Dean!