Have you been contacted about renting by PM or email?

[RobDoc]

We have been receiving compaints about posters being contacted by PM or email from other posters who do not have an active rental thread on our DVC Rent/Trade Board.

If you have received such solicitation, please contact any of the DVC and/or Rent/Trade Moderators. We would certainly advise extreme caution with such contact outside of the Rent/Trade Board.

In some cases, the contact comes after users post requests in legitimate rental threads posted on the Rent/Trade Board, but other times they are just in response to an innocent casual comment like "we are thinking about trying to rent at BCV in the future" posted on DVC Resorts, DVC Member Services or Mousecellaneous. Either way, such contact violates DIS policy.

Please let a mod know it you have been approached in this fashion.

If there are any questions about this, feel free to ask in this thread.

Thanks!

 

[mlittig]

Thanks for helping to keep us all save

 

[CarolMN]

Bump

 

[Chuck S]

Bump

 

[CarolMN]

bump

 

[RobDoc]

Thanks to all who have reported these contacts.

Some of those abusing the DIS program have been new posters with few or no posts and others have been registered for a reasonable period of time. None of those reported have enough recent posts to be able to use the DVC Rent/Trade Board to offer their points without purchasing one of the rental plans now offered.

Please, if anyone receives contact offering rental points, transfers or existing reservations who does not have an active thread on the Rent/Trade Board that you have responded to, send me or one of the Rent/Trade moderators a PM or email or report that contact to admin@wdwinfo.com .

Thanks again!

 

[Chuck S]

To repeat the warning, there is a recent incident where a poster was contacted via PM by a person that was NOT eligible to post on our Rent/Trade board and it has ended badly. The reservation was cancelled after payment was made and there has been no refund so far and they did use PayPal.

PLEASE do not send money or do business with anyone if you did not make the initial contact. It is easy to scam via the anonymity of the internet.

 

[Chuck S]

bump

 

[spiceycat]

go you put this on the regular Resort board too. also the orlando resort board might help too.