In all fairness, anytime you read a public forum you're going to get a variety of opinions. In the past, I've read posts from people who thought they were the "smartest guy in the room" for buying a VB resale at $52 per point and always using their points to book WDW resorts a 7 mos.
I've also read of people who were ENCOURAGED to buy VB by their DVC guides becuase they were told they would have no trouble using those points at a WDW property.
But by and large, most folks here do preach the "buy where you want to stay" mantra. You can never go wrong with that approach.
If there turns out to be any truth to the current VB sale rumor, it really won't affect us very much. Yes, it was a nice selling point to know that VB and HH were non-WDW options in the program. But it will probably take us a decade to work one of those resorts into our travel plans.
I'm following the VB rumor, as I'm sure many here are, but it doesn't really concern me. As I stated in a prior post, even if Disney transferred management of the entire DVC program to another entity, you probably wouldn't see our contract listed on a resale site anytime soon. Our intention was to buy into a resort on WDW property, and that's what we did. Whether DVC or Mariott or some other company manages the property is a secondary concern.
Seriously, I watch the boards regularly, and there are very few good contracts that appear. Most of the ones on any of the boards are pretty well stripped of points. Timeshare Store has, by far, the most contracts offered for sale, probably because they are the biggest and sell the fastest. But if we members amount to about 65,000 or so, I would say that the sellers amount to about 1-2%. So I would say that people take all the vacations they can, and then sell before they have to pay next year's dues. So where are the contracts where the people are selling because they don't use their points??
