DVC blue card--still confused?

[roadtripper]

Are benefits tied only to contracts, or are members grandfathered in if they bought their original contract direct but have since sold it? My blue card says "Member since 2002," which is correct, but neither of my current contracts were purchased direct in 2002. If I sell the blue card contracts and keep the non blue card contract, am I grandfathered in to benefits? My non blue card contract shows a virtual blue card online--does that mean anything? It also says "Member since 1993"--which was probably the original sale of the contract--it's OKW.

I really did search for the answer to this, but it's still unclear to me. Thanks for any help!

 

[BillPA]

Depends, if you purchased the resale prior to the introduction of the restrictions then you are "blue", if not you are not qualified for the blue card perks.

 

[Bing Showei]

Give this thread a read: Adding On?
A lot of good comments on what qualifies your membership.

In short, people don't have any membership benefits, their memberships do. And that depends on if there are any qualifying contracts in that membership.

 

[roadtripper]

Thanks! I called the sales department to ask them. I purchased the resale I want to sell in 2015, and purchased the one I want to keep the month after the rules changed in 2018--grrrr. So if I sell my last remaining pre-2018 contract, I am no longer blue, even though I have been a member since 2002. Now I have to decide if the member benefits are worth paying that much for...I'm thinking no.

 

[MommaBerd]

Why not keep it and rent it year after year? (More of a curiosity question...)

 

[SL6827]

Some people like myself have both a white and blue card.

 

[Frederic Civish]

Just use the Blue card, all the time, and ignore the white one. It doesn’t get you much.

I second the idea of just keeping the contracts and renting them out.