DVC presentation - do they know if you are already DVC member?

[Galun]

We just bought two DVC contracts resale and had learned a lot on the forums already. However we had been advised multiple times that we should still sit through an official DVC presentation at least once, since we had never seen one.

I have no intent to waste anybody's time and we are not ruling out the possibility of buying direct in the future, so we are going to sign up for a DVC presentation at an upcoming trip and establish a relationship with a guide.

My questions is will they know we are already DVC members? What kind of personal information is collected for the presentation? I'd rather they don't know we are already DVC members so we get the "unaltered" sales pitch, in case they have a different sales pitch to someone who is already DVC.

 

[ITGirl50]

I wouldn't waste my time with this. There isn't a presentation but a one on one meeting with a sales person to sale you DVC. Are you trying to learn more about how to use DVC? Have you seen the DVD presentation you can order?

 

[RweTHEREyet]

If you have a member number, you are in their system.

 

[DebbieB]

We just bought two DVC contracts resale and had learned a lot on the forums already. However we had been advised multiple times that we should still sit through an official DVC presentation at least once, since we had never seen one.

I have no intent to waste anybody's time and we are not ruling out the possibility of buying direct in the future, so we are going to sign up for a DVC presentation at an upcoming trip and establish a relationship with a guide.

My questions is will they know we are already DVC members? What kind of personal information is collected for the presentation? I'd rather they don't know we are already DVC members so we get the "unaltered" sales pitch, in case they have a different sales pitch to someone who is already DVC.

Even if you bought resale, you already have a guide assigned. Just call them up and tell them you want a tour. I bought over the phone and did the tour about 3 months after.

 

[Galun]

Even if you bought resale, you already have a guide assigned. Just call them up and tell them you want a tour. I bought over the phone and did the tour about 3 months after.

Oh! Got it. Thanks!

 

[Brian Noble]

Just call them up and tell them you want a tour.

Recognize that the point of the "tour", from DVC's perspective, is to sell points. As you probably have no intention of buying direct at this point, you have to decide whether or not this is something that is important to you. If it were me, I would not bother.

 

[Breyean]

Recognize that the point of the "tour", from DVC's perspective, is to sell points. As you probably have no intention of buying direct at this point, you have to decide whether or not this is something that is important to you. If it were me, I would not bother.

We try to keep this in mind, too. We had just bought Aulani while on a cruise a couple of years ago. Never saw the rooms.

So while we were at DLR soon after, we stopped by the DVC sales office and asked, and they had the mock ups of the rooms for viewing. There was a guide available, and he showed us the scale model of the resort, we talked and were just heading for the rooms when another family came in.

The guide asked if it w/b OK for them to come with us. We said sure, knowing we weren't going to buy anything just then and this other family might. So we went together, and later the guide even thanked us for being such good reps for DVC.

It turned out my wife had been talking with the other woman the whole tour, telling her what we loved about DVC, how we've owned since 1993, and how we had just added on at both Aulani and VGC.

The guide must have seen or overheard and it probably made his job a little easier having the support of current members saying nice things and not having all the info come from the guide.