Does anyone know how well BLT is selling?

[aprince&princess]

Did anyone else not receive materials in the mail? We didn't get anything with the BLT announcement. We found this odd as we got several mailings when AKV was announced. If I weren't so obsessed with all things WDW on the Web, I wouldn't know BLT was even for sale!

We just received the BLT mailing with Sat. mail. So maybe they are going out in stages and yours will come in the next day or two.

 

[mickey mouse lover]

nope, haven't gotten any mailings,either.

 

[culli]

nope, haven't gotten any mailings,either.

Ditto, my guide did call but I found out from these boards about BLT.

 

[mgilmer]

Did anyone else not receive materials in the mail? We didn't get anything with the BLT announcement. We found this odd as we got several mailings when AKV was announced. If I weren't so obsessed with all things WDW on the Web, I wouldn't know BLT was even for sale!

I did not receive anything about BLT except the magazine. Now I hang on the Dis and other boards and I knew about it and have no interest in buying there, nonetheless . . .

 

[Chic]

I can't believe that 400 BLT contracts were purchased during a recent cruise. The Disney Wonder has a total of 1283 rooms. That means roughly 35% - 40% of the families onboard bought into BLT, NOT! I attended a DVC presentation in July 2007 on a Disney cruise and there were about 20 people in attendance. Cruise passengers typically attend the DVC presentations in pairs which would mean that over 800 people attended this particular presentation. Wake up folks, it's a marketing scheme.

 

[Blahnde]

I can't believe that 400 BLT contracts were purchased during a recent cruise. A cruise in this season may have had 2000 people onboard. That means roughly 25% of them bought into BLT, not! I attended a DVC presentation in July 2007 on a Disney cruise and there were about 20 people in attendance. I just can't believe that over 400 people attended the DVC presentation during one given cruise.

It was the DVC Member cruise and the entire ship was sold out hours after it was announced last year. AND they gave amazing incentives for purchases that were only available to those on that specific cruise who bought druing the cruise. They did several presentations over the course of the cruise since the first few were standing room only!

Blahnde

 

[jennilynn510]

Did anyone else not receive materials in the mail? We didn't get anything with the BLT announcement. We found this odd as we got several mailings when AKV was announced. If I weren't so obsessed with all things WDW on the Web, I wouldn't know BLT was even for sale!

we didnt get crap in the mail too...although we did just buy an add-on at AKV but hey we could be independantly wealthy for all they know

 

[bookwormde]

Just because 400 contracts were sold does not mean that 400 members bought contracts, I am sure many who were buying a larger number of points were breaking them into several contracts for future resale value. The incentives were very good particularly for those who bought larger chunks.

If DVC only ends up selling all the founder’s contracts and a reasonable number of smaller contracts by the 5th that is only 5% in almost 3 weeks (2 weeks of submitting), that would work out to 100-150 weeks to sell out at that rate. The real quantity of sales comes from the general public so watching what happens next week and how fast the units are declared will be the real indication,

bookwormde

 

[MarkRG]

I can't believe that 400 BLT contracts were purchased during a recent cruise. The Disney Wonder has a total of 1283 rooms. That means roughly 35% - 40% of the families onboard bought into BLT, NOT! I attended a DVC presentation in July 2007 on a Disney cruise and there were about 20 people in attendance. Cruise passengers typically attend the DVC presentations in pairs which would mean that over 800 people attended this particular presentation. Wake up folks, it's a marketing scheme.

Believe it. As was said, it was an entire cruise of Members only, and by the last day, you couldn't walk 5 feet without seeing someone wearing one of the lanyards announcing that they were an owner at BLT.

If I had any interest in more park points, that would have been my first choice for an addon, and the incentives they added on to buy while on board the ship, on top of the regular ones, were something to not pass up. In that way it WAS a marketing scheme, but a successful one. I wouldn't be surprised to see BLT setting some serious sales records, it has one major plus going for it over all the others, it is a VERY short walk to the MK. That is all it needs to sell, as the MK has a wider reach than any of the other parks down there.

 

[Anal Annie]

DVC did a very good job with their initial promotional push. Within days members were bombarded with the Sentinel article, official press releases, email blast, Travel Channel special, materials via US Mail, Disney Files magazine, member cruise, and so on. It's pretty much impossible for current members to have missed the announcement.

I don't think so! The only way I knew was thru the DIS 'cuz we never received anything...nothing...nada...zip until we got our Disney Files just this past Saturday. I emailed my guide over the weekend just to razz him a little...he said "it's in the mail"! Well, I ain't holdin' my breath!

 

[Tiger926]

I'm not sure why people are arguing about how many contracts were sold on the Member's Cruise? If you don't believe it, then that's fine, but several of us on different threads are reporting close to the same numbers after speaking to different guides, so that would indicate that it more than likely is true. Does it really matter if they sold 200, 400 or 1,000 contracts on the cruise - nope! The fact is that they have had a very busy week due to the BLT announcement. The other scenario is that all guides coached in lying to members in order to increase the hype - give me a break! The hype is enough already, and from where I'm standing, they don't need anymore hype as BLT seems beyond popular at the moment!

As above posters stated,the Member's Cruise gave out some great incentives, and so DVC did good sales. Whether that momentum keeps up remains to be seen, but none of that is relevant at the moment. As several of us are also reporting that the Founder's tiles are close to (if not already) sold out. At only 1,000 names, that's not a lot at all considering they had a lot of presales to work through as well.

Tiger

 

[White_Sox_Fan]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the sales estimates being tossed about are highly over estimated. They have only declared one small portion of one floor of the resort into inventory and those are the only points available for purchase at this time.

 

[mommary]

Someone mentioned lesser dues..... how does that work?
Thanks

 

[emlutz23]

I think I know why some of you haven't gotten your mailings yet. B/C DVC sent us two yesterday! One addressed to me and one addressed to my DH!

 

[Tiger926]

Someone mentioned lesser dues..... how does that work?
Thanks

Our guide said it's because of the following:

- architectural structure (eg. less roof to maintain)
- no front desk as we are to use Contemporary front desk
- not as much landscaping
- less transportation due to walking, monorail, etc.
- no restaurant as again, using Contemporary

Don't quote me as I just woke up, but I think the dues quoted to me were approx. $3.72, so that's almost 1 dollar cheaper than elsewhere, so, over the long term, the lower dues will save money. He said they are planning for it to stay this way, based on above factors. There might be a few othe reasons, but I can't remember them at the moment.

Tiger

 

[50 years Too!]

Did anyone else not receive materials in the mail? We didn't get anything with the BLT announcement. We found this odd as we got several mailings when AKV was announced. If I weren't so obsessed with all things WDW on the Web, I wouldn't know BLT was even for sale!

I know that BLT isn't filed with Oregon yet. Maybe not NH either?

Deb

 

[dwelty]

Tiger, I find it very hard to believe that 1/3rd of the ship bought at least 160 points.
I think your guide might have been exagerating a little.

 

[Tink-n-Belle]

there were 400 contracts sold during the cruise-- I don't think anyone mentioned how many points each contract had so I'm sure not all of them were over 160 points.

During the cruise they offer really awesome incentives. Its too bad that they didn't offer a fraction of the incentives to us (current DVC members) during the past 2 weeks. I want to buy in really bad, but with the stock market the way it is I'm holding off. I don't see what benefit buying in right now will do for me or anyone else (except those on the founder members fountain or the cruise). $5 a point isn't that much considering that I can't even go there for a year.

 

[maminnie]

Sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere, but what offers/incentives were given on the ship for BLT during the Member Cruise?

Just curious...

Thanks.

 

[disneynutz]

It was the DVC Member cruise and the entire ship was sold out hours after it was announced last year. AND they gave amazing incentives for purchases that were only available to those on that specific cruise who bought druing the cruise. They did several presentations over the course of the cruise since the first few were standing room only!

Blahnde

Captive marketing... sounds a little like other timeshare sales practices.