In 2016
DVC removed membership perks from resale. In 2019 DVC added resort restrictions to resale when sales opened at RIV. Neither of these impact a Direct buyer using their contract. They get the perks and are not blocked from trading into any resorts.
DVC set out to differentiate direct from resale. The very first move was back in 2011, removing new resale’s ability to trade points into the Disney Collection. It was a smart move using something few people cared about. Gently it acclimated the DVC community to the idea that certain things do not legally need to be included with resale. The big punch came 5 years later, when membership extras were taken from new resale. Even then, it was done gently because they allowed as little as 25pts direct to qualify for perks. Slowly they raised that minimum direct purchase, and 3 years later when RIV was the first restricted resort that minimum was 100pts. In 2021 it was raised to 150pts.