Incentives changing June 15/09 - we added on at BLT quickly with this news

[BWV Dreamin]

LOL - I saw that Mike had been told that when he added on. I almost posted the same question/comment on that thread. I still have not seen anyone mention that all the units have been declared and they would almost certainly had to be to be in the final month. The last I heard not even 1/2 of the units had been declared but I haven't followed up on it either.

I'd also think DVC would be officially playing up the quickest sell-out ever and would have announcements all over the place about it being your last chance. I haven't seen anything to that effect either.

So - do you want to take my bet? I'm sticking to it!

Agree with you KAT....this is sales propoganda. Don't bite.....

 

[tjkraz]

Hmm . . . perhaps you'd like to ask DVC Mike? He's been told the same thing and he believes it:

http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?p=32203544#post32203544

The "meat" of Mike's comment is that BLT is selling faster than BCV. I've heard of BCV taking anywhere from 13-18 months to sell. But bear in mind that BLT has twice as many points as BCV since it has more rooms and the point charts are MUCH higher. BLT has those high-priced Grand Villas, too, while BCV has none.

So, it's certainly possible that BLT is selling at a pace faster than BCV did way back in 2001, but the larger supply of points means it will take much longer than 10 months to sell all of BLT.

I'd also be curious to have someone from DVC justify the "selling faster than projected" comment. What exactly was their projection? From Day One we had reports of Guides telling people that it could sell out in 3-4 months (didn't happen) or 6 months (didn't happen.)

I should add that I'm not trying to disparage anyone's Guide. I love my Guide, too, but my BS detector starts to go off whenever he speaks about such things. We're talking about front-line salespeople here. These are executives who have access to division-wide sales figures. They aren't seeing the total volume of contracts passing thru their offices. Whenever my Guide starts to talk about big-picture things, I take most of his comments as hyperbole and sales-speak...not as gospel.

Disney's quarterly stockholder reports have reflected disappointing sales for DVC. Then you've got the recent wave of extra special incentives--completely unnecessary if you are beating projections.

And when I searched the Orange County Comptroller website a couple weeks ago, I couldn't find any rooms declared above the 6th floor.

Sorry but you'll have to count me among the doubters. Those who buy now may end up with the best BLT price ever offered (at least until they hit resale), but I'm taking the "over" on any sell-out in the next 2 months.

 

[DVC Mike]

Hmm . . . perhaps you'd like to ask DVC Mike? He's been told the same thing and he believes it:

I don't believe that BLT is going to sell out in a month. I do put some credence to my guide's claim about how fast BLT is selling, and that the rate of sales is greater than BCV's rate of sales.

My guide repeated what I've heard on other boards: that BLT is selling faster than expected, and faster than BCV did.

Now, I was already sold and she had no reason to tell me this to get me to buy, so perhaps there is a tad bit of truth to this? Or maybe that's what the management is telling their sales force. She mentioned that BLT might sell out in a month or so.

I threw in my guide's last statement to see what the reaction would be.

 

[katieandemismom]

I find it hard to believe that it's almost sold out. I just got the package for the DVC sales webcast, and the entire package centers around BLT. If it truly were as sold as the guides have said, they wouldn't have spent that much money FedExing beautifully done marketing kits centered around BLT with absolutely NO mention of the other 3 properties for sale.

Nope..... not buying it (but might be buying BLT - hahaha).

 

[AKVTiger]

I find it hard to believe that it's almost sold out. I just got the package for the DVC sales webcast, and the entire package centers around BLT. If it truly were as sold as the guides have said, they wouldn't have spent that much money FedExing beautifully done marketing kits centered around BLT with absolutely NO mention of the other 3 properties for sale.

Nope..... not buying it (but might be buying BLT - hahaha).

Agreed! No way, this sounds like a typical sales pitch.

 

[WilsonFlyer]

I don't see any way that a resort the size of BLT is selling out in 2 months. If that were true, they would be demolishing the South Garden Wing for another DVC Tower this very minute.

That just about sums it up in a nutshell. You can take that statement straight to the bank.

 

[jennypenny]

I'm not sure about selling out in two months, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if it was way ahead of BCV's selling rate. How many more existing DVC members are there now compared to when BCV opened? Double? Triple? So how many more got the sales info early because it's legal since they're existing owners? And how many add-ons, no matter how small, happened compared with BCV?? I think the sheer number of current members helps DVC with marketing and helps initial sales with add-ons.

I don't know about the actual number of sales, but it wouldn't surprise me also if sales at AKV and SSR have plummeted as compared with BLT. I think DVC is still pushing BLT in their sales literature as a kind of gentle bait and switch--buy here (SSR, etc) but stay there if you want (BLT). We all experienced that kind of pitch when we bought. The "stay anywhere" line gets used by all DVC including those people at the kiosks in the park. It's one of the first things they say.

Maybe the first of the use years will sell out in 2 months (like February).

I can't wait to see new incentives on SSR and AKV. I can't see how Disney could match resale prices on SSR but AKV might be interesting.