First Contract: Debating how many points

[AstroBlasters]

For new members, incentives look to be as follows:
150 points - $5/point
200 points - $10/point
250 points - $11/point
300 points - $12/point
500+ points - $13/point
https://dvcnews.com/dvc-program-men...centives-improve-as-welcome-home-weeks-begins

Really not a lot of savings to go from one point level to the next aside from 150 to 200.

Does the buy resale first and then buy direct at a discounted price trick still work?

I don’t think those incentives look like a “can’t miss opportunity”.

 

[airjay75]

Does the buy resale first and then buy direct at a discounted price trick still work?

I don’t think those incentives look like a “can’t miss opportunity”.

I imagine so, but then you need to find what you want on resale which could take time, and then you’ll be dealing with a future round of incentives where the difference between new member and add-on pricing might not be as significant. I suppose if you’re patient and interested in resale anyways, could be a good way to go. But, once you get that itch for the points and the willingness to pay direct prices, patience sort of goes out the window - at least it did for me! Haha.

 

[AstroBlasters]

I imagine so, but then you need to find what you want on resale which could take time, and then you’ll be dealing with a future round of incentives where the difference between new member and add-on pricing might not be as significant. I suppose if you’re patient and interested in resale anyways, could be a good way to go. But, once you get that itch for the points and the willingness to pay direct prices, patience sort of goes out the window - at least it did for me! Haha.

There has always been a material delta between a new member and an existing member.

You also purchased at RIV, where the incentives were much better as you purchased more points.

At these levels, I’d consider getting resale to start and then adding on 200 points direct at the discounted member rate since that’s where the only material incentive increase occurs.

That is how I purchase my direct Aulani points and I got them for around $180pp with full previous years points and WITHOUT selling anything back for magical beginning.