How much below 'asking' is "lowballing"?

[Cfabar1]

The TOT to me really skews the whole game.... I think that issue is going to continue to be a problem...

To me, a lowball offer is an offer that has no basis in financial reality for the point system and the resort. Offering $50/pp for VGC would be a waste of everyone's time. Offering $50/pp for Vero Beach is probably a bad financial decision on the part of the buyer, who might want to consider offering lower than that (if offering at all).

 

[disneylandtour]

A few VDH made their way into the resale market. Some asking $180 to $215pp. $150 might seem lowball yet I can’t imagine anyone offering more other than some random unicorn buyer/masochist.

The west coast is a different ballgame but still, VDH restrictions are harder to swallow than RIV. Locked into to one resort and that resort has a fairly significant ToT cost. On average per night they add: $50 Duo, $70 Studio, $125 1BR, $190 2BR, $400 GV. That’s an albatross. No lucking into VGC or occasional jaunts to WDW that avoid and offset those ToT expenses.

I’d say 10% under asking is totally fair game. Even 15% fair game if your intuition thinks a specific resort or type of contract is trending down. For VDH 20% does not seem lowball.

With the TOT, VDH needs to come down to the low $100s to make me interested. Give it three years, and I think it will be there. The restrictions are huge. The TOT is high. The tower is tiny. And it would be super easy to have periods where you could find little to no availability in weeks that interested you and those points simply expire.

 

[Genie+]

The TOT to me really skews the whole game.... I think that issue is going to continue to be a problem...

To me, a lowball offer is an offer that has no basis in financial reality for the point system and the resort. Offering $50/pp for VGC would be a waste of everyone's time. Offering $50/pp for Vero Beach is probably a bad financial decision on the part of the buyer, who might want to consider offering lower than that.

It would hurt less if the dues at VDH weren’t on the high side at near $10pp.

It all adds up quick!

 

[Middle of Main Street]

I always offered what I wanted to pay. When I found things that fit, I offered..sometimes it was well below and other times it was not.

Last year, I decided that if I could get RIV for $100x I’d buy it! No one took it. Which was fine because it worked out that I really didn’t need them!!!

I completely agree. We made a lowball offer on a 2042 resort last summer, not expecting to get it. It was what we were willing pay, and what we felt we could use ourselves at our favorite resort. We have spent a lot of money at this resort already before becoming members, so this purchase made sense for us, at the price we paid.