DVC Survey

[cruisehopeful]

I happen to know at least one person with more than 1000 direct points (not me) who has been telling their guide that Disney needs to have some status or perks for people with more direct points than the minimum to get DVC-Y to make the value more than resale beyond restricted resorts.

I have to agree with the 1000 point direct member. There's no compelling reason to buy direct again at that point for most people. DVC should give something special with another direct add on, but it doesn't need to be permanent. They can give a LLMP, a BTS tour, a meal at Club 33, for example when adding on X amount of points.

Of course, that would cost money to the sales department vs. giving people the option to pay more for a longer booking window. Seems like a bogus reward to me to be given the opportunity to pay more.

 

[VGCgroupie]

I have to agree with the 1000 point direct member. There's no compelling reason to buy direct again at that point for most people. DVC should give something special with another direct add on, but it doesn't need to be permanent. They can give a LLMP, a BTS tour, a meal at Club 33, for example when adding on X amount of points.

Of course, that would cost money to the sales department vs. giving people the option to pay more for a longer booking window. Seems like a bogus reward to me to be given the opportunity to pay more.

Free AP when you own 1k direct points.

 

[atthebeachclub]

I actually would love to see a system that gives home resort owners priority for waitlists. All waitlists get manually looked at anyway.

Or more waitlists for your home resort!

 

[AstroBlasters]

Or more waitlists for your home resort!

How about auto walking

 

[HyperspaceMountainPilot]

After 30 years, I am so tired of DVC playing with us, messing with point charts, allowing mega renters to snag all the availability at 7 months and so on.... At some point though, I will be too pissed off to care and that will be the end.

We are approaching that point. At the beginning of this year I wanted to pick up another 125-150 points (pushing us close to but not quite at the 1000 pt club) because I love BCV and our family is outgrowing the 1BD…but after all the sound and fury but not doing a single thing to stop commercial renters (also making G+ to LLMP which is worse for our family), I can’t justify putting more money in the system that stresses me out and feels unfair. The DVC website doesn’t reliably work for me on any browser or my mobile phone, and my DVC membership honestly has been making me like Disney less. Probably going to sell 125 points instead of buying them, and then keep my direct points, BCV + VGC resale, and just visit less.

I happen to know at least one person with more than 1000 direct points (not me) who has been telling their guide that Disney needs to have some status or perks for people with more direct points than the minimum to get DVC-Y to make the value more than resale beyond restricted resorts.

It’s definitely not me, but this makes total sense (no idea what’s wrong with DVC) that some perks should be tiered by direct point total and also by recency. I own two separate contracts with enough points to get me Y card independently…why would I buy more direct unless/until they build on crescent lake again? But if I only needed 50-100 more direct points to qualify for a guaranteed MM of my choice or a once-per-stay bonus LLSP, I’d open my wallet so fast.

I think having some tiered benefits based on number of direct points could nudge people to do add on points direct instead of resale…. and it really wouldn’t cost Disney anything besides the lawyer fees to adjust the documents and the tech fees to adjust the software.

Let’s face it, there is a relatively small pool of Americans who can buy DVC direct and also want to spend $30k on a Disney timeshare. They already know who a lot of us are— I don’t think they should take stuff existing perks away from resale owners (more than half my points are resale!) but it’s also business 101 to come up with ways to entice your best customers to keep coming back. RIV/VDH/CFW sleep around points do NOT move the needle for many of us, and LSL doesn’t look better than BRV/CCV to me, and once you have 400 direct points, it’s a little crazy to say “I’ll buy another 150 direct just in case Disney builds such an awesome property down the road in 10 years I want to stay there more than 8 nights each year…but also not buy it as a home resort!”

Having a small recurring (or one time awesome!) perk for people at the 200pt/300pt/400pt mark would encourage many of us to shift direct for the next 50-150 points…and then maybe a bigger advantage for those who own 500+ direct and 1000+ direct? It would also fund a ROFR campaign as people routinely bite off 25-50 point contracts at their home resorts.

I do see a downside though that FOMO-ing people to buy more direct points for perks would probably also lead to them renting more.

 

[Cfabar1]

I am struggling to picture how this can interact with home resort booking priority. Would/could it be something like this?

11 months - owners can book their resort
10 months - owners with 500+ points can book at any resort
7 months - owners with less than 500 points can book any resort

Does the booking window for the initial reservation have to be equal for all members when using their home resort priority window? Maybe the POS doesn't make it clear? If there isn't a home resort priority window that owners can use in practice I'd imagine that getting really ugly for the entire system. Why buy any points other than the cheapest possible points?