Next DVC??

[awilliams4]

We bought in 1997 when customers were valued. Now it's all about selling newer properties for outrageous prices, "renovating" poorly ala OKW, furnishing poorly ala BLT, "guides" making unreasonable statements to get people to buy, etc. When we bought, our guide was a guide. She stated the facts and if we didn't buy, we didn't buy. She laid it all out on the table, no sugar coating, no impossible promises.

Fees pay for the renovating. Curious, if they put in gold plated dishes and diamond studded bed frames in and charged you $30 per point in MF to cover the costs, would you consider that focusing on the customer.

I own at BLT. I didn't notice and poor furnishing. I noticed guests that treat the place itself poorly though by banging everything up.

Outrageous prices? Has the ROI in 5-7 years changed from 1997 to 2010? I did the math and we are getting our initial investment back after 5-7 years.

As far as the guides, as expected with everything in life, there are good ones and bad ones. If I had a pushy guide, I would not translate that into 'Disney Is Losing Focus On The Customer'. Very short sighted.

 

[awilliams4]

You sould definately get that in writing

I agree with Deb on this. It is my opinion that overall demand for DVC is relatively low and the market is saturated, at the moment.

I say this; because, DVC resale prices indicate the resorts are not holding their value, which is indicative of a finite number of buyers and a large supply of points. In reality, the new resorts are simply absorbing the buyers that would otherwise have bought the current resorts via resale or direct from Disney. Instead of new resorts, Disney could buy existing contracts for the current resorts and sell these points for a discount, and still make a ton of money since most of the initial cost were paid by the people trying to sell the points.

This would keep the cash flowing for Disney, make our ownerships more valuable, and maintain the affluent perception of DVC. If they build more and more resorts, the reverse happens: flooding the market (which drops the overall price of existing resorts), cheapening our worth to Disney as frequent visitors, and opening the market to those who want something they really can not afford.

On another note, I wonder if they would sell "the DVC Monorail"; exclusive lines between BLT, BCV/BWV, OKW/SSR, and AKV! You need to be a member to ride it, and non-members (or those not a guest of the monorail member) would be instantly vaporized if they tried to board!

- Chris

Now this argument against more DVC makes sense. Being selfish though and not too concerned about the cash value of my contracts, I still want GF, Poly and others to move forward.

 

[Greysword]

Now this argument against more DVC makes sense. Being selfish though and not too concerned about the cash value of my contracts, I still want GF, Poly and others to move forward.

I think a Poly and GF DVC would be relatively small and sell out pretty quickly. Such resort would also be (mentally) combined with BLT to form the Monorail DVC resorts, which serves all tastes. I think stand alone resorts, either on property or off, just to make more money, would create an influx of unabsorbable demand at the 7th month window for the existing resorts.

Now, back to the DVC monorail idea....