We bought 150 points for Poly on Saturday for our first ever direct contract.
(As an aside, this is my 4th contract, so addonitis is real and I need to get rid of a contract).
I was blown away how easy the transaction was. Called guide saturday morning and said we wanted to buy, had documents within an hour or so, and had points in our account around 4pm.
We are a Feb use year so we got 2024 and 2025 points. I was excited that the 2024 points are prorated for dues (I am guessing only 2 weeks worth of dues since tower doesn't open until end of December). They complimentarily banked the 2024 points in 2025 when loaded as well. The points were already usable at historic poly rooms and I believe we can obtain the new rooms middle of October.
I was a bit bummed that incentives were not a little stronger, but I think it will be a good seller for DVD so I can't blame them on not having crazy incentives. I wanted to take advantage of magical beginnings and sell back the first year points to reduce the purchase price but they were not doing that for Poly at this time. I couldn't be that mad though I guess as the dues are minimal here.
Really made me laugh though how quickly this whole process went....on my first resale contract, disney sat on the contract for 89 days in ROFR....direct purchase just a few hours and points were in your account!