Purchasing points at a sold-out resort

[LisaS]

If I purchase points at a sold-out resort from Disney, do I get any current-year points? For example, say I purchase 200 points at BWV with a December use year and I close on July 31st. Do I get any of the points from the Dec 1, 2004-Nov 30, 2005 time period, or will my first points come from the Dec 1, 2005 - Nov 30, 2006 allocation?

If I would get some current-year points, can I bank all of them into the next use year?

Also I've read that maintenance fees for the current year are pro-rated. How is this calculated? Do they take the number of days left in your use year and multiply the annual dues by N/365, where N is the number of days remaining?

Based on the listings I've seen it is less expensive to buy into a sold-out resort through the resale market rather than from Disney, provided I can find a contract with a decent number of points available. But I want to be sure I'm doing an accurate comparison, which requires knowing exactly how many points I would get if I buy through Disney.

Thanks in advance for any info anyone can provide!

 

[TammyAlphabet]

I can't figure out how to do the quote thing!! Sorry, but I do have some answers in there somewhere.

If I purchase points at a sold-out resort from Disney, do I get any current-year points?

Yes, you do.

For example, say I purchase 200 points at BWV with a December use year and I close on July 31st. Do I get any of the points from the Dec 1, 2004-Nov 30, 2005 time period, or will my first points come from the Dec 1, 2005 - Nov 30, 2006 allocation?

You get full set of points at once, so you get the 2004 use year points to use right away.

If I would get some current-year points, can I bank all of them into the next use year?

It would be past your 100 banking window, but, if you ask your guide, they would likely let you bank them all.

Also I've read that maintenance fees for the current year are pro-rated. How is this calculated? Do they take the number of days left in your use year and multiply the annual dues by N/365, where N is the number of days remaining?

I don't know how it is calculated but it is prorated from the day the points are sold to you.


Based on the listings I've seen it is less expensive to buy into a sold-out resort through the resale market rather than from Disney, provided I can find a contract with a decent number of points available. But I want to be sure I'm doing an accurate comparison, which requires knowing exactly how many points I would get if I buy through Disney.

I rarely see a contract on the resale board other than HH or VB is is a significant savings over buying directly from Disney. But, I would not go through the ROFR just to save 400 or 500 dollars, but that is me. Good luck hunting!!

Thanks in advance for any info anyone can provide!

 

[LisaS]

Thanks for the info!

Just an FYI, if you want to break up a block of quoted text into several blocks just make sure each block of text starts with [ Q U O T E ] and ends with [ / Q U O T E ] (but without the spaces in between the square brackets and the letters).

This can be done for you automatically if you use your mouse to select the text you want quoted and click the "quote" icon above the response text box. It's the last icon on the right -- looks like a little text "balloon".