DVC statistics

[DVC Mater]

Does anyone know, or how to find out how many DVC members there are, growth rate, and how many resales occur in a year? just curious about the future...

 

[DVC Mater]

WOW, I think I have stumped the Disboard....Do i get a prize??

 

[disneynutz]

WOW, I think I have stumped the Disboard....Do i get a prize??

Nope... No Prize.

DVD, like The Disney Corporation doesn't publish that kind of info. I have asked several Disney folks who have the information, but they always give me some obscure, change the subject answer.

 

[drusba]

Those who do a purchase of points from Disney will get a member count in the offering documents (it is in the Multi-Site Public offering Document) which count is usually a few months old. Thus, you can get it that way. Since I purchased an add-on at AKV earlier this year, I can give you a member count as of December 06 (thus now a year old and it does not include any AKV members). The following counts joint owners (such as husband and wife) as one:

OKW: 26,467
BWV: 19,268
VWL: 7,592
BCV: 10,737
SSR: 33,805
Vero: 5,010
HHead:4,903

Total in Dec 06: 107,782

 

[tjkraz]

Regarding the number of members, DVC used to keep a pretty good count but changed the rules a couple years ago. Under the old system, I believe they used to count member IDs. My wife and I are both listed as owners on our contract, thus we have the same member ID and were originally counted once.

Using this system I recall them being near 90,000 "members" and that was in mid-2005. We have certainly exceeded 100,000 "members" using that logic.

More recently they have started citing a figure over 300,000. At the very least they are now counting all owners listed on contracts. But it may go even further than that. Given that some contracts would have a single owner and many others would have a husband/wife listed, it seems unrealistic for the number of members to grow three-fold simply by counting multiple deeded owners. They may be doing database queries to estimate non-deeded children as well.

However you slice it, DVC hasn't been very forthcoming with figures lately. Up thru '05, they seemed to take a great deal of pride in the growth of membership; the ever-growing figure was quoted often and seemingly with pride. I assume the logic was altered to magically make the program seem much larger. Whatever the case, DVC doesn't say much about it anymore.

As for resale contracts, I don't think there's any way to know that. You can dig into the records of Orange County (and the other two counties where Vero and HHI are located) to see the recorded deeds. But I don't believe there is any way to tell a resale contract from a purchase direct from DVC.

Here's the most recent information I've see on overall sales:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=21231201

 

[Dean]

According to the exchange company audit there were 110,107 members at the end of 2006.

 

[DVC Mater]

cool thx for the answers, I knew the DIS would have it