Member Cards and discounts

[DisMN]

Are our Member Cards supposed to be dated with an expiration date? In Jan, when we were eating in a restaurant that had a DVC discount, we were refused the discount on the claim that our card was "old" and that it appeared to be "expired".

We had other discounts we could use so it wasn't a huge big deal but now that I think about it, I wonder if we've missed recieving updated cards or something........

Our cards are actually very worn out....so I'm also wondering if we should ask for new ones anyway. LOL

 

[*KeepMovingForward*]

My member card definitely does not have an expiration date on it, just our member number, name, use year and Member since date. Our cards are a little over a year old...if something changed with an expiration date being printed on them, we definitely don't have that either. Maybe the CM you had was inexperienced and thought your member since date was an expiration date?

 

[nunzia]

That is odd! Nope..no expiration date..I bet the OP is right..they saw the 'member since' date and thought it was an expiration date. I was just thinking how easy it would be for an ex member to just keep using the card for discounts.
I do think it's odd that our Member Since number dates way back to when the contract was first sold. We bought at resale just over a year ago, but the card says we've belonged since 97..I wish!

 

[Duckfan-in-Chicago]

No date. We received new cards when I called MS and told them our old cards were really warn out. The new cards look different than the old. They shouldn't not take the old ones though.

 

[Chuck S]

The original DVC Membership cards did have an expiration date, and DVC sent new cards out. They have not had expiration dates for many, many years now, the cost of making and sending new cards, even every 2 or 3 years to several hundred thousand people would be expensive. An alternative may be to use heavy paper cards that are printed annually and bound/send with the annual planners or included in a Disney Files. But they may not be seeing many people trying to use expired cards, or the small costs of the perks being used with expired card is nothing compared to the costs of mailing out new cards.

 

[kristenrice]

That is odd! Nope..no expiration date..I bet the OP is right..they saw the 'member since' date and thought it was an expiration date. I was just thinking how easy it would be for an ex member to just keep using the card for discounts.
I do think it's odd that our Member Since number dates way back to when the contract was first sold. We bought at resale just over a year ago, but the card says we've belonged since 97..I wish!

We just bought a resale last September and it says we've been members since Feb 2007! Maybe it is tied to the original contract date. It is an interesting point, though, that someone could sell their membership and keep their cards. What would stop them from getting the discounted AP? I would assume that they cross-reference the membership number with the name on the contract and when they didn't match, the discount would be denied, right?

 

[DebbieB]

We just bought a resale last September and it says we've been members since Feb 2007! Maybe it is tied to the original contract date. It is an interesting point, though, that someone could sell their membership and keep their cards. What would stop them from getting the discounted AP? I would assume that they cross-reference the membership number with the name on the contract and when they didn't match, the discount would be denied, right?

Resales do retain the original contract date.

My original card peeled apart, I called and got a new one.

 

[*KeepMovingForward*]

My original card peeled apart, I called and got a new one.

Mine too. The new cards aren't very sturdy. I thought maybe it was just me.