If I add on with Disney do I get to pick the use year?

[cman]

I'm thinking of adding to the 200 points we already have. If I buy through Disney Do I get to pick the use year?

I want to stay with Feb. for simplicity reasons.

 

[MiaSRN62]

If I'm not mistaken, when buying from Disney, they will insist that you have the same use year. So, yes....you would need a Feb use year add-on. Good luck

 

[Dumbo]

If you add on with 150 points or more you can pick any use year you want even if it is differant from your current use year.


Dumbo

 

[MiaSRN62]

If you add on with 150 points or more you can pick any use year you want even if it is differant from your current use year.

But then is this recognized as a second/additional contract ? I'm just trying to understand this. Thanks.

 

[drusba]

For any add-on, Disney automatically puts it in your same use year except when buying 150 points or more you can request a different one. When put in your same use year, for purposes of banking or using points, the combined points are treated as if they are one contract. Example: If you have 200 and add 200, you now have 400 for banking purposes and if you decided to bank half, you would be banking 200 of the 400 total. If you get a new use year, then it will be considered separate from from your first contract and each will have its own set of points to use or bank. Note that in both of those situations the contract itself remains a separate contract that can be sold separately if you later decide to do so.

 

[TCPluto]

For any add-on, Disney automatically puts it in your same use year except when buying 150 points or more you can request a different one. When put in your same use year, for purposes of banking or using points, the combined points are treated as if they are one contract. Example: If you have 200 and add 200, you now have 400 for banking purposes and if you decided to bank half, you would be banking 200 of the 400 total. If you get a new use year, then it will be considered separate from from your first contract and each will have its own set of points to use or bank. Note that in both of those situations the contract itself remains a separate contract that can be sold separately if you later decide to do so.

I suspect you know this because you have done it.

Our guide told us it had to be the same use year. We prefered that, for accounting purposes, and never thought to pursue it. Interesting.

 

[drusba]

Unless they have changed their practices, they will allow you to buy 150 or more points in a new use year because that is their minimum point total applicable to sales to new members. Note, there is usually no reason to do that. I did it because it was when BWV was close to being sold out, I wanted to buy 200 points, and in my original use year there were not that many points left to sell, so they gave me a new use year where they still had more than 200 points left to sell.

 

[Dumbo]

But then is this recognized as a second/additional contract ? I'm just trying to understand this. Thanks.

Any add on, even if it is only 25 points is considered a second/additional contract.


Dumbo

 

[MiaSRN62]

Any add on, even if it is only 25 points is considered a second/additional contract.

Thank you.....hadn't realized this. We were thinking of doing a small add-on (25-50). I thought if you added on to your existing home resort/use year (in my case OKW/March), then it stayed as 1 contract. I thought only if you went with a different resort or a different use-year it became a second contract. Thanks for the head's up.

 

[Dean]

Thank you.....hadn't realized this. We were thinking of doing a small add-on (25-50). I thought if you added on to your existing home resort/use year (in my case OKW/March), then it stayed as 1 contract. I thought only if you went with a different resort or a different use-year it became a second contract. Thanks for the head's up.

It functions as one contract but is technically separate. It would only matter if selling or transferring ownership. It's better if it's the same use year but not that big of a deal if it's not.

 

[SyrCinderella]

If you do an add-on, can it be at a different resort, or just your home resort? (Thinking ahead, if they do build on the monorail someday...)

 

[SueM in MN]

Thank you.....hadn't realized this. We were thinking of doing a small add-on (25-50). I thought if you added on to your existing home resort/use year (in my case OKW/March), then it stayed as 1 contract. I thought only if you went with a different resort or a different use-year it became a second contract. Thanks for the head's up.

Anytime you buy additional points, it is a second contract, no matter how many points it is. That is to your advantage if you want to sell some points. You can sell each contract individually. I.E., if you have 200 points that were all bought at the same time, you can only sell them as one 200 point contract. If you have 200 points, made up of a 150 point contract and two 25 point contracts, you could sell each of them individually.

But, the contracts we bought from Disney that are the same use year as our original contract are all "lumped together" by Disney with our original contract. Our original contract is xxxxxxx. Our first add on is contract xxxxxxx.1, our next add is is xxxxxxx.2
When we call MS, all those contracts come up under one file in the computer. We have other points we've added over the years that are different use years. Each of those has a totally different member number xxxxyyx and xyxxxxx and have to be individually accessed in the computer.

 

[jel0511]

We added on through DVC last August at BWV. We added on 150 points and at the time there weren't any points available. I did ask for a different use year so we could get the points faster, and my guide severely recommended against that. She said that management really doesn't like selling different use years than your original contract, but if we pushed it, she'd do it. We really wanted the same use year anyway, so got on the waitlist for that. We got the points in less than a week!!!

Also, we've added on 3 times now, so we actually have 4 contracts. They are all tied to the same membership number, so it is like they are one contract. The only problem I've had with having two use years is when I've book a reservation during home resort priority, and then tried to add on nights to that reservation at the 7 month window. MS either had to cancel the entire reservation and re-book using non-home resort priority, or make two reservations and link them together. I had an inexperienced MS CM that day, and she couldn't figure out how to add the nights I wanted to......

 

[MiaSRN62]

Thanks Dean, SueM and Lori......you spelled-it-out great.

 

[Dean]

If you do an add-on, can it be at a different resort, or just your home resort? (Thinking ahead, if they do build on the monorail someday...)

They can be at different resorts and that's a great way to have access to multiple resorts at the 11 month window. You may hear people tell you that you can only add 25 points at your home resort but 50 at another resort. This is not true, it may have been for a short time but not now. Just remember it's ONLY the points you own at THAT resort that you get to use in the 7-11 month window, not all your points from other resorts.