Does it bother you when people ask...

[Alexander]

I agree with TCPluto as I have been solicited by those people to buy their reservations for outrageous money. They likely get the money for them though because they book up rooms during busy seasons and others can't get the reservations they need because they are sold out.

We ran into this for President's Week. Several people tried unsuccessfully to get me a reservation for this week and when I asked if there were any reservations someone needed to sell, you wouldn't believe the offer I got! You know there is something wrong when there is a post on the rent/trade board that says "I can get you a room when the resort is sold out."

 

[phyllisnnj]

It doesn't bother me. I'm assuming some renters probably don't know how much DVC maintenance fees are so they don't know that folks are only asking a little more than their maintenance fee at $10 per point. Also on some websites timeshare resale and rental prices by owners are negotiable.

FYI... on the Timeshare User Group (tug) board for both rentals and resales, some folks use the word "FIRM" after quoting their asking price.

 

[mikesmom]

I voted yes when maybe it should be yes and no. I have no problem with someone trying to get a better deal - we all would like one. I do have a problem with someone who apparently agrees with the $10/point asking price and then 5 emails or phone calls back and forth later (trying to organize details, etc) asks for $7 or $8 point.

I actually don't have a problem with someone buying "distressed" points and selling them higher. I had some distressed points once due to family illness and frankly, I felt the guy was doing me a service. I wasn't losing them entirely and he was taking all the risk and going through the work of posting, emails, phone calls to MS, etc.

I do have a problem with someone who asks for $8 points because they are trying to help out poor relatives, single mothers, folks who have had family illness, disadvantaged cousins, etc and apparently know so many of these deserving but poor people they are asking every couple of months. I think there is a business going on there, and they just don't have the honesty to be up front about it. That bugs me way more than the guy who is an honest reseller. With him, if you don't want to deal with him you don't have to. With the other poster I think people are being played for their better natures and that's not right.

 

[thelittlemermaid]

DH and I don't own any DVC points, but I sure wish we would have known about them before taking our first trip to WDW. Especially that you can "rent" them. From the pics that I have seen of the Home Away From Home resorts I would have loved to have stayed in them rather then the All Stars.

To me $10 a point seems more then fair. Why in the world would someone ask for anything cheaper is beyond me. Compared to where we stayed to if we rented points, I figured it out and we would have saved over $500 if we would have rented points, had a kitchen at our disposable and made our own meals. Instead of going to the food court for breakfast and supper each day and night for our 4 day/5 night stay.

We are REALLY looking into renting points for our next trip, which won't be for a couple of years. And would have no problem paying $10 a point. Compared to what has already been paid for the points, $10 is a VERY BIG bargain.

 

[Divamomto3]

I don't think I'll ever be in that situation because I definitely use every single point up myself!

 

[Granny]

It wouldn't bother me a bit. I heard all sorts of negotiation offers, and this could be a ploy or it could be the truth. Either way, it wouldn't bother me. It's just a transaction, and if they can't afford your points they can just keep looking for someone until they find him/her.

 

[tinkerbell of winter]

I'm not sure I would rent my points if someone came right out and asked me to rent them to them cheap. They could book a vacation at a value or moderate probably for less than what my points would get. I also work very hard (two jobs) to pay off my DVC membership so I am kind of possessive about it. Would I take people with me on my vacation, yes, but as for practically giving them away I don't think I would do it. I would if I had a lot of points and money as some DVC members do, but with my level of membership it's just not practical.

 

[Johnnie Fedora]

I voted Yes, but it goes both ways. People looking for a cheap deal and people offering a cheap deal. Both parties don't understand the "real value" of the transaction. The only exception to that are distressed points.

If you want to provide a charity, rent your points for $15/pt and toss the proceeds in the Salvation Army Kettle.

 

[spiceycat]

yes - I have had some people offer me less - after they had agreed to my price.

I just told them "no" and looked for another renter. Found one very fast!!!!

one guy not only want to rent for less - he wanted a 1-bedroom when I only offer studio - some people!!!!

I don't stay in a 1-bedroom - so if anyone think they are going on my points for better than I do - no....

but for people who want to rent less - if they get someone to agree - then more power to them. Most of the dis posters know the worth of a point and hopefully would not do it.

 

[KNWVIKING]

..... the same way it does when people come into the dealership demanding you sell them a $40,000.00 truck for $100.00 over the invoice because the internet tells them what the dealer paid.

There will always be people that expect you to sell them a product at what they feel is the right price.

 

[anniet]

There was an interesting article in Esquire Magazine this month called "Haggling for Hot Dogs" about negotiating. It says that a price tag on anything is merely a suggestion and that the price of anything is pretty much open to negotiation.

I wouldn't be offended, because I wouldn't have to sell them. By the same token I won't pay a price for anything that I feel is a rip off either.