New Member Concerns

[jarestel]

Not every positive needs to be countered with a negative for me to believe the poster. (Jarestel: does the opposite hold for you as well? That a post with only negatives is also less creditable?) However, I agree that if someone says "Oh, it was perfect - absolutely nothing went wrong", I tend to wonder what got glossed over ....

DrT, trip reports are very different from asking for honest opinions about a potential purchase. Most of my trips actually fall into the "everything was perfect - at least perfect enough -" category. When deciding to purchase something though, I'd rather hear the good, the bad, and the ugly and decide for myself whether all of the hoohaa is warranted or not.

For the record, I enjoy DVC immensely and am happy to have purchased my membership. But there are things ( in retrospect, now that I'm a DVC know-it-all ) that I might have wanted to know in advance of my purchase. Not that it would probably have made much difference, but just to get a better picture of the whole experience. Unfortunately, I had not at that time discovered the DIS boards, so all of the information here wasn't available to enlighten me.