If and when that happens, we can all be pissed about it. The only thing we have ever been guaranteed is to book our home resort(s) for lodging.
You have to keep saying it because it is completely speculative and not based on empirical data. Saying it over and over doesn't make it any more objectively true.
Doomsday speculating is a favorite activity for many.
Yeah, you’re right of course. This will be the first time Disney reverses course on something like this!
It doesn’t exactly take a crystal ball to see where this is going. Let me ask you this, why are any of these meager benefits behind a paywall?
You may get more dollars if you rent points versus swap them for an AP. I'm waiting for more details, but if the delta between point swapping for an AP and renting is just a few dollars per point, then I may do it. If an owner has sufficient points, coughing up points for an AP may not be a big deal to them. We aren't talking huge sums of money here.
Because DVC believes that owners are willing to cough up $99 (or more) to get access to them, and I'll bet anyone a Dole Whip that they are right. This will sell.
I'm not going to suggest that Disney isn't above their fair share of skullduggery, and they've never walked past a penny without picking it up, but if Disney was going to dip their toe in the water, they'd more likely have slipped at least one previously free perk into the package. Bundling a bunch of stuff that doesn't lessen the range of benefits currently offered to eligible members gives them no metric to determine how such a transition would be received. If they had, for example, actually eliminated all free access to the lounge, or less conspicuously added more restrictions to eligibility for Moonlight Magic, and bundled it exclusively with MMB, then that would have been a different story.
Oh I completely agree this is a gateway to adding more "perks" to this and increasing the price.
Renting out doesn’t always pan out. We have multiple times not gotten any bites. Plus you don’t get all the money upfront.
It’s clear you’ve hit your threshold of what you believe was acceptable with DVC. You don’t have to keep saying it, people understand your point. I think it’s just many (here in this thread at least) don’t fully see it that way… and it doesn’t mean you’re wrong or that what you’re saying won’t come to fruition. But at the end of the day we all have our own limits. Many before you hit it awhile ago and sold their contacts or really downsized because they couldn’t accept the changes. For many others, this is just the way of the world and this ultra capitalist business path is not new or can be avoided. If the mess of restrictions didn’t sway enough people to pushback or rebel against at DVC in a meaningful enough way to force change, a $99 non-perk, perk won’t either, even if it’s just the beginning.
But you also have to keep in mind that you are saving $901 cash, not $1K, because this thing costs $99 to allow you the privilege of using points to pay for the AP.
But if you use points to renew an AP, buy some OTU points, and get priority access to the member lounge a few times, then that $99 fee gets spread incrementally across ALL of the benefits you use.
That's also true, but only if you only allocate the cost of the $99 MMB to a single AP, and that you're not taking advantage of the other benefits.
