Pros & Cons of renting DVC points?

[crisi]

Whilst I agree with your sentiment your comments are not 100% accurate. The member you rent from is liable for any damage a renter may make to their room and for any unpaid room charges. Disney will hold the owner responsible. The biggest risk an owner takes renting points is that the guest they rent to trashes the room and they are left with a big bill and a difficult if not impossible task of recovering the costs from the renter.

I have an issue with the sentiment. Almost everyone paid a lot of money for their room at Disney - other renters paid it in rental costs, members paid large up front fees and dues. No one is entitled to a better room than anyone else because they "paid a fair amount to be there." When you get to your room and discover that it has more of a parking lot view than the view you'd hoped for, and you go down to the front desk to get a room change, you are saying "I'm more worthy of a better view than the person you'll assign the room I don't want in an hour or two when they check in." That person may have put in a room request when they made the reservation. They may finally be getting a room they want after years of getting stuck with poor views or long hallways.

 

[Miffy]

Wow. I just want to say that I had absolutely no intention of starting an argument about any of this. I was just asking if it were even possible to request a room change. That was it.

Also, think about it--a room that might make one person unhappy--very close to the elevators, for example--might be exactly what someone else wants. I'm sure I've been in rooms that someone else rejected that I thought were just fine--rooms that were very very far from the elevators, for example (something I've seen people complain about). I never mean any offense to any other guest, as I'm sure they wouldn't mean any offense to me, either.

 

[crisi]

Wow. I just want to say that I had absolutely no intention of starting an argument about any of this. I was just asking if it were even possible to request a room change. That was it.

Also, think about it--a room that might make one person unhappy--very close to the elevators, for example--might be exactly what someone else wants. I'm sure I've been in rooms that someone else rejected that I thought were just fine--rooms that were very very far from the elevators, for example (something I've seen people complain about). I never mean any offense to any other guest, as I'm sure they wouldn't mean any offense to me, either.

But YOU don't know what the other person wants. It could be just fine, or the CM could be taking away a request made 11 months out. The person who has complete information is the room assigner. Not the guest.

 

[Miffy]

Unsubscribing from this thread.

 

[Shelly F - Ohio]

PRO: with anything but a studio you will get a full size kitchen and a washer and dryer so you can pack less clothes and go home with clean clothes.