DVC Direct Pricing Heading Up

[Ghostridethedolewhip]

October
September was not available
At first they tried to push for Dec but I wanted something earlier based on our travel. Ideally August but not available. Other choices were Feb March April

 

[MJB62676]

I'm am literally in the DVC tour room about to sign. Was going to go with CCV but decided on Poly. Mainly since I will be purchasing at 163.5 with the discount, I felt that if I had to exit for whatever reason I would be purchasing for well below the eventual increase. Also my wife loves Poly and at 11 months we can grab a standard

Our logic exactly, and we did our contract today as well. We did December UY. I wasn't aware any other were open but December works for us anyway.

Congrats. I'm giddy.

 

[Ben E N]

October
September was not available
At first they tried to push for Dec but I wanted something earlier based on our travel. Ideally August but not available. Other choices were Feb March April

I would call that an excellent decision. You like the Poly anyway, and at the rate things are going, you can flip that contract for a profit within 2 years if you fall out of love with it.

 

[Ghostridethedolewhip]

Our logic exactly, and we did our contract today as well. We did December UY. I wasn't aware any other were open but December works for us anyway.

Congrats. I'm giddy.

Awesome. We were there till late and I was getting hangry. Looking forward to the next 48 years.

 

[chiisai]

What is the minimum for poly? Possible to get in for 50, with no other existing contract yet?

 

[MJB62676]

Awesome. We were there till late and I was getting hangry. Looking forward to the next 48 years.

I'm absolutely ecstatic with the way it worked out. I think/hope this will work out perfectly for my usual style (more apt to do things/use things if I've already dumped a bunch of time or money into it). I'm sure I'm still under the effects of the pixie dust, but took a week to think about things...and if they reported the upcoming price raises to prompts sales, it worked on me. Once I learned of that, it became a no brainer for our family of 4....who used a 1BR from 12/9-12/16 and barely were in the room at OKW. Our last "night" I was literally in the room for 3.5 hours. That was an expensive 3.5 hours!

My hope is the December UY works as we have two young ones in school so for the next 10 years or more, fall travel is very unlikely. We loved early december, but living in the mid-west, travel in Jan/Feb to Sunny Florida is very appealing....even if it means pulling the kids.

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

....who used a 1BR from 12/9-12/16 and barely were in the room at OKW. Our last "night" I was literally in the room for 3.5 hours. That was an expensive 3.5 hours!

Although an OKW 1BR for that time is only 10 points more than a PVB lakeview studio. Standard view PVB is a greater gap. But stay in an OKW studio and that's a bargain!

 

[GMG_3]

October
September was not available
At first they tried to push for Dec but I wanted something earlier based on our travel. Ideally August but not available. Other choices were Feb March April

Was the builders incentive still available for you?

I wish I had purchased more points now the pricing is sky rocketing.

 

[MJB62676]

We were able to get developer credits to make the effective cost 163.50/point. That, along with the upcoming price increase, the relatively small difference between that price and re-sale, etc....along with really liking the resort and it's apparent popularity all factored into our decision. I literally had not planned on moving forward for another year or 2.

 

[River Country]

Why such a price increase on sold out or nearly sold out resorts?

 

[_auroraborealis_]

Why such a price increase on sold out or nearly sold out resorts?

To discourage interest. Margins on sold out resorts are far lower because the points have to be acquired.

 

[ziravan]

If you love Poly, getting in under the wire of sellout is a great move.

As a general rule, buying any timeshare on developer points is a very bad deal.

There are exceedingly few exceptions to that rule.

I believe this is one of them. In fact, I paid $165/point to buy Poly direct in 2015. No regrets.

 

[MJB62676]

If you love Poly, getting in under the wire of sellout is a great move.

As a general rule, buying any timeshare on developer points is a very bad deal.

There are exceedingly few exceptions to that rule.

I believe this is one of them. In fact, I paid $165/point to buy Poly direct in 2015. No regrets.

I was originally going to buy at full price for a few reasons, and go for just 100 points, but when I did the math and considered I knew what I wanted in terms of points, I went ahead and bit the bullet. The incentives were just icing on the cake. Hope you're right in your prediction!

 

[GMG_3]

If you love Poly, getting in under the wire of sellout is a great move.

As a general rule, buying any timeshare on developer points is a very bad deal.

There are exceedingly few exceptions to that rule.

I believe this is one of them. In fact, I paid $165/point to buy Poly direct in 2015. No regrets.

I would say DVC would be the exception. Let's home it stays that way.

I'm thinking about a 50-75 point add on before the price increase.

 

[ziravan]

I would say DVC would be the exception. Let's home it stays that way.

I'm thinking about a 50-75 point add on before the price increase.

I would say, for the most part, DVC at the resorts currently selling are decent values direct, where the value switches decidedly to resale after sellout except for small point contracts.

I’m not sure I’d extend that thinking to above $200/point.

I think the current $176/point is pushing it, but incentives are bringing it back down to mid $160’s.

When Poly was selling for $176/point with no incentives, they were selling 70k/points per month. When they added incentives that dropped points to about $160/points, sales doubled.

I think DVC knows $180 is too high. I think heading there is an indication that they intend to use incentives to push sales.

That’s a departure from their strategy since VGF first went on sale. DVC never offered an incentive for VGF.

 

[ziravan]

I will say that when DVC first started, they were criminally underpriced. And incentives like free passes were unreal.

I think from 1995-2005, they realized they were underpriced but not just how underpriced they were.

From 2005-2015, they decided to test the limits of pricing.

I think they found it above $165.

Now. I think they’re trying to find the best combo of price/incentive/perks to hit their sales goals. At this point, the higher the price, the higher the incentives.

 

[glamdring269]

Looking to add on 50 or 75 points. We’re going to walk around the Poly tomorrow just to be sure we want to do it. Have a visit at the main DVC office already set up for Tue afternoon. Will see how it goes...

Interesting dynamic here though is that our BRV res just got changed to CCV so will have a chance to stay there. Already own at BRV but could end up being a more sensible add on option if we end up liking our CCV stay. That decor via pics though... yikes.

 

[ziravan]

If I were buying CCV, I’d only consider a fixed week studio in early December.

Incentives be danged.

 

[_auroraborealis_]

And I'm not sure there's a lot of value in CCV for someone who already owns BRV unless they want to hedge the extra 26 years or something.

 

[chiisai]

Awesome. We were there till late and I was getting hangry. Looking forward to the next 48 years.

Joining you both. I've tentatively got an April use year; I'll find out tomorrow if it's still available (I called late today). If not avail, I'll select one of the others. And I answered my own question- yes, 50 point contracts are available for first contracts.