Purchasing virtual or in-person?

[DisneyDotts]

My husband and I are ready to make the plunge into DVC! However we're debating whether or not we want to purchase in person or virtually. If virtual, we can buy tomorrow. If in person I'll have to wait a little bit. I also rather not spend the money to go down just to book if there's no additional perks to booking in person

Anybody who's recently purchased virtual or in-person can share if you got any welcome gift or any other perk? Thank you!

Hi,
I just bought 2 days ago virtually. Called, got a quote emailed to me. Called back 30min. later after I look at everything and was done with the down payment, loan documents in less then 15min. Points were in my account I think a couple hours later (maybe it wasn’t even that). They make it super easy. I just have to print a page and get it notarized and it’ll all be done.

OP, just so you know, what you are referring to as purchasing "virtually" was around long before COVID. It just wasn't called that. You call and tell the Guide what you want. The Guide tries to convince you to buy something which will get them a higher commission. You stick to your guns. The Guide says they have to check. Then the Guide calls back and says it's available. You give a credit card number for the amount you want to put on the card up front. The Guide mails you the paperwork; you sign it and mail it back.

Oh wow! I didn’t even have the hassle of sticking to my guns. Thank goodness (bought 2 days ago) they didn’t even mention RIV but I knew what I wanted when I called. And I just signed via DocuSign. They make it so easy. I’ll have to make myself say no to extra points. Lol ugh

 

[BayGirl22]

You can use any card and split it, when buying direct from Disney. In fact my guide charged $5k on Friday and the rest on Monday to make sure it didn't get flagged as fraud.
The Disney Visa will give you no interest for 3 or 6 months (?), and Disney points. Other cards may have more valuable benefits though. I used a Chase Sapphire Preferred and it showed up as Travel so I got 3x points, which is a LOT of value for my purchase.

Also, besides calling you can do a Chat with the guide and they'll send you info to look over. I think we did all of our paperwork on Docusign too, no sending back and forth.