Purchasing different use year direct

[DisneyFanSea]

I currently am a member with Dec use year at PVB and VDH.
I'm looking to buy direct VDH with Aug use year for late summer / fall trips (Sept to Nov) without relying on my Dec use year points (and also to avoid using it after the banking deadline).

Since I am a member with Dec use year, would I still qualify for existing member incentive when purchasing direct in a new use year, even though technically it results in being a new and separate membership?

See an issue with this plan?

 

[cruisehopeful]

I was told by my guide that if I bought a different use year, it would be considered a new membership. I wasn't looking at a resort with incentives so I don't know about that. What I would do in your shoes is request the current incentives for the new use year. If they said no, I would just keep asking different guides until I found one that would do it for me.

 

[Sandisw]

You can buy it and get member pricing. However, since it will be a new membership, it’s not considered an add on.

You will be required to purchase at least 100 points since that is the current minimum for new memberships.

You might get pushback but just go in saying that you understand how to manage both and you realize the guide might need to get manager approval…but you want that UY for strategic reasons.

 

[AwfulWaffle]

Guess I got lucky and added on 75 direct points with a different use year. Don’t want another use year but for grand cal I guess I’ll take what I can get haha

 

[Sandisw]

Guess I got lucky and added on 75 direct points with a different use year. Don’t want another use year but for grand cal I guess I’ll take what I can get haha

Maybe it’s all they had so they made the exception?

Regardless, congratulations!

 

[dvc lover 1970]

I was told its considered a new membership.

 

[Sandisw]

I was told its considered a new membership.

Yes, it would be.

 

[DisneyFanSea]

Thank you all for the input. Another question: Let's say I decide to do a trip where during the time both use years overlap being before both banking dates.

Ie: I have member services transfer Dec UY 2025 points to an Aug UY membership. I book a trip for March 15, 2026. Feb 1, 2025, I decide to cancel the trip. For the Aug 2025 UY points now in my Dec UY membership, am I able to bank the Aug 2025 UY points into 2026 if done so before the Aug banking deadline of March 31, 2026 even though its in my Dec UY membership?

Or are transferred points treated as borrowed/previously banked points where they can no longer be banked?

 

[DoubleBaconBLT]

I was told by my guide that if I bought a different use year, it would be considered a new membership. I wasn't looking at a resort with incentives so I don't know about that. What I would do in your shoes is request the current incentives for the new use year. If they said no, I would just keep asking different guides until I found one that would do it for me.

My guide gave us a different UY for direct and we still qualified for existing member incentives. We just explained that we have a June UY, but want to be able to take vacations around Memorial Day, so we'd like a Dec UY for direct. He was happy to give that to us. It was great because we got an entire extra year's worth of points for free by doing that.

 

[Sandisw]

Thank you all for the input. Another question: Let's say I decide to do a trip where during the time both use years overlap being before both banking dates.

Ie: I have member services transfer Dec UY 2025 points to an Aug UY membership. I book a trip for March 15, 2026. Feb 1, 2025, I decide to cancel the trip. For the Aug 2025 UY points now in my Dec UY membership, am I able to bank the Aug 2025 UY points into 2026 if done so before the Aug banking deadline of March 31, 2026 even though its in my Dec UY membership?

Or are transferred points treated as borrowed/previously banked points where they can no longer be banked?

When you transfer points, nothing about them changes in terms of use and banking and home resort.

So, if you move Aug 2025 UY points to your Dec 2025 UY, they are still Aug 2025 UY points.

They are just now sitting in a different spot. Think of each membership as a shelf. You move them to a different shelf but it doesn’t change them.

Last year, they did update the rules so transferred points can now be borrowed as well.

This type of transfer would be considered your one and only for both 2025 UY…it wouldn’t matter what date you actually do the transfer.

 

[DisneyFanSea]

Last year, they did update the rules so transferred points can no be borrowed as well.

Thank you for the clarification. Based on the context, did you mean they can noW be borrowed or noT be borrowed after latest rules update?

And I'm guessing the above would applied to already banked points as well.

 

[Sandisw]

Thank you for the clarification. Based on the context, did you mean they can noW be borrowed or noT be borrowed after latest rules update?

And I'm guessing the above would applied to already banked points as well.

Now be borrowed! I’ll fix it!!