June 2025 Direct Sales Numbers In

[kilik64]

Wonder if we see the 150pt threshold for direct benefits ever reduced. Doubtful but some can dream.

I think at some point in the history of DVC you could obtain direct benefits with just a 25 point contract.

I don't think a this point they will ever lower it below 150 again, not since they separated new buy min and direct benefit minimum when VDH started. Might be wrong, but pretty sure that was the first time they were not the same amount?

 

[AstroBlasters]

I think at some point in the history of DVC you could obtain direct benefits with just a 25 point contract.

I don't think a this point they will ever lower it below 150 again, not since they separated new buy min and direct benefit minimum when VDH started. Might be wrong, but pretty sure that was the first time they were not the same amount?

It costs them money to give direct benefits…. they need a minimum profit margin to justify those ongoing costs.

 

[VGCgroupie]

I think at some point in the history of DVC you could obtain direct benefits with just a 25 point contract.

I don't think a this point they will ever lower it below 150 again, not since they separated new buy min and direct benefit minimum when VDH started. Might be wrong, but pretty sure that was the first time they were not the same amount?

Yeah once they raise it they aren't going to go back. Direct benefit minimum is a vastly different situation than changing the min point add on for existing members.

 

[maui22]

Did they even have a difference for direct/resale years ago? Didn't free valet parking apply to resale back in the 2000s?

 

[CarolynFH]

Did they even have a difference for direct/resale years ago? Didn't free valet parking apply to resale back in the 2000s?

Yes. There was no distinction between direct and resale until 2011, and free valet parking was gone long before that (when Disney outsourced valet services). The 2011 restrictions applied only to the points themselves, which couldn't be used to book Disney cruises or certain other negligible things.