You need to set up the Disney MagicMobile pass in your smartphone wallet. In the MDE app, click the 3 lines lower right, click Disney MagicMobile, then click the + sign upper right and follow the prompts. You can choose any pass design you wish - you don’t have to choose the DVC design but are welcome to! Then tap and add it to your wallet. In your wallet there’s a way to look at the “back” side of the pass (varies by iPhone vs. Android), which is where you’ll see the DVC-ND and the QR code mentioned above.
Disney does not profit off of dues. However, the ability to sell contracts at a meaningful value sets DVC apart from most other timeshare products. Disney benefits from that because it makes direct buyers both more willing to buy and willing to pay more than they/we otherwise would. Disney can create a significant space between the membership value of direct and resale, but if they go too far and tank resale value too much they will have traded a short term gain for long term headaches.
Unfortunately, yes, you have to use Apple Wallet and touch the little i in the upper right corner to display the DVC- and the QR code (used at Disneyland). Members without smartphones can bring a printout of their membership card from the website, but some CMs won’t accept it, which is a sore spot with me (even though I have and use my Apple Wallet for many things, not just MM).
Thank you for confirming this. The good news is that I'm not as technologically challenged as I thought. The bad news is that this seems like a ridiculous amount of effort. I'd be even more annoyed if I bought direct!
We’ve been asked every time, since it’s been implemented, to produce the card in our Apple wallet
See above.
I would have thought you know enough about DVC to know what dues cover and sales has absolutely nothing to do with dues. Dues cover resort administration and front desk, insurance, annual audit, management fee reservation system, maintenance, housekeeping, security, taxes, transportation, electricity, gas, water, sewer, cable and telephones.
DVC/DVD doesn't benefit from any money spent in the parks. Everyone should understand what they actually purchased. The only money source for DVD is direct sales only.
Not the poster this was directed at, but I understand that DVC gets a management fee from dues... presumably this is profitable for DVC given that dues do in fact go to all of those other things you mentioned too. Not suggesting it's pure profit. I do recognize that sales don't have anything to do with dues.
I do not think they are allowed by law to profit from management fees. It is a fee to pay for their management services which is why it is aduited every year.
Literally done it dozens of times now on both coasts. Never been denied, and a CM has never been unable to see the DVC-Y. They know what to ask for, and what to look for.
No harder than digging into my pocket, grabbing my wallet, and fishing out the old plastic card (which still lives in there), then reversing the process. I prefer not repeatedly pulling my wallet out, then pulling cards out of it. Way too easy to lose something I'd rather not lose. Much less likely to inadvertently "lose" my phone, and even if I did, it's a useless brick to anyone else.
Disney is like a lot of small companies under the same big umbrella. It will make it easier to understand why DVD does what they do if you think of them as their own private business. For example the Moonlight Magic events DVD has to buy those. Ticket deals have to be negotiated etc.
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