Not ROFR thread - general discussion

[cruisehopeful]

Technical question since I don’t know how this all works…could a business add something that would prevent a third party site from collecting its info and posting it?

Meaning can DVCRM put something in place on their end that stops their listings from showing up in this site?

I hope that's not the intention. I feel like they reach a lot more people by being on DVC for less.

 

[disneylandtour]

That would make little business sense as DFL essentially advertises brokers' listings for free. My guess is that a change to a broker website inadvertently affects how DFL scrapes or monitors their site. Probably means that DFL needs to update code, which maybe takes a few days.

 

[Sandisw]

I hope that's not the intention. I feel like they reach a lot more people by being on DVC for less.

Was just curious if it is possible.

 

[ark101]

If I ever sell, I wouldn’t want to list through a brokerage that limited where my listing could be seen.

Well, DVCForLess is an aggregator. If your brokerage has the higher pricing of resale sites, there isn't too much incentive to be shown there since the listings would seem like not very good deals unless they are exclusive. That being said, this may not even have been intentional, any changes to the website would've caused the scraping to fail unless they are explicitly giving access to their data to the aggregator via another channel.

 

[cruisehopeful]

Well, DVCForLess is an aggregator. If your brokerage has the higher pricing of resale sites, there isn't too much incentive to be shown there since the listings would seem like not very good deals unless they are exclusive. That being said, this may not even have been intentional, any changes to the website would've caused the scraping to fail unless they are explicitly giving access to their data to the aggregator via another channel.

DVC resale market has had some of the lowest list prices in the few resorts that I have looked at in the past couple months. I think it's weird that neither dvcforless or DVC resale market has commented about it. They are both regularly on the forum. I hope it gets worked out soon. To me, it's a significant loss to not have the listings on dvcforless.

 

[Jimmy Geppetto]

I’m really liking this new version without DVCRM listings. I no longer have to filter out the over priced contracts.

 

[VGCgroupie]

I’m really liking this new version without DVCRM listings. I no longer have to filter out the over priced contracts.

Comment of the day

 

[PolyRob]

It appears https://www.dvcforless.com/ is showing https://www.dvcresalemarket.com/ contracts again. I got an email update about a "new" contract and see it's showing over 1,300 contracts again.

 

[Jimmy Geppetto]

It appears https://www.dvcforless.com/ is showing https://www.dvcresalemarket.com/ contracts again. I got an email update about a "new" contract and see it's showing over 1,300 contracts again.

You ruined my Sunday.

 

[PolyRob]

You ruined my Sunday.

I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news!

I had hoped there was a decent new contract and quickly closed it out after seeing the "deal."