Renting points & Ebay--you won't believe this!

[InstImpres]

Since someone spoke to DVC, I though we aren't allowed to rent for cash, so I've been leary about "getting caught" on e-bay. Did DVC have any take on the whole e-bay aspect?

Just wondering
Thanks

 

[cherylp3]

They didn't say anything but Thank You and in my email I only noted that my concern was over the user id and password info being public.

Last time I looked, The auction was still up.
If DVC had a problem with it they would ask ebay to remove it in my opinion.

 

[CaptainMidnight]

Someone who doesn't think this is a big deal is certainly entitled to thier own opinion, I happen to dissagree. Disney has password protected all the vacation club materials available on the site and we have the guidelines on this forum that we will not be posting the sign on and password. ebay has a huge audience compared to this forum, and I don't like that it's posted on a very public forum like ebay. Just my view on the issue, it's up to me to take it up with the person individually in I'd like to choose to do that.

Big deal? Probably not big enough to post any more about it here than I already have, but maybe....

The user id and password are gone from the listing.

-- just saw this after I wrote the above -- Excellent.

 

[Tagrel]

Another vote for the 'its not a big deal' group. I just found the info doing a web search in about two minutes (and it wasn't on ebay)

Disney, as a company, could easily make the logins personal to each user (as they do for the Disney Club, Disney.com and disneystore.com), but they have chosen not to.

My personal opinion is that they have done this on purpose. By adding an ID and password they make it look like members get 'special' treatment and a special 'member only' site. (Which I have to assume is why many members who just dropped 15, 20 or 30 grand don't think 'outsiders' should have access - and probably rightfully so)

By using one ID and Password for everyone, it just opens up the site to anyone willing to spend 2 minutes doing a search.

I think they should just have us register and enter our member numbers like we did when we signed up for email. Then the site would REALLY be for members only.

 

[DSNY FN]

I agree and also how many of us rent our points for money? I know that is also supposed to be a big no no and yet it is done so if you found the user name and password offensive on e bay then I would ask you to stop renting your points for money that will likeley never happen so two wrongs don't make a right but after all it is only a web site we are talking about and there really isn't anything worth password protecting in my opinion hell my whole family has the site book marked and so do all my friends who are interested in going down some time and I gave them all the user id and password.

 

[Wes]

Originally posted by Tagrel
Another vote for the 'its not a big deal' group. I just found the info doing a web search in about two minutes (and it wasn't on ebay)

Disney, as a company, could easily make the logins personal to each user (as they do for the Disney Club, Disney.com and disneystore.com), but they have chosen not to.

My personal opinion is that they have done this on purpose. By adding an ID and password they make it look like members get 'special' treatment and a special 'member only' site. (Which I have to assume is why many members who just dropped 15, 20 or 30 grand don't think 'outsiders' should have access - and probably rightfully so)

By using one ID and Password for everyone, it just opens up the site to anyone willing to spend 2 minutes doing a search.

I have to agree with the 'not a big deal' group on both counts -- (1) there is nothing on the web site that is really anything that needs securing and (2) Disney does a lousy job of securing the passwords.

In November, Disney mailed out postcards with the password on them, which anyone who saw the postcar could easily read. In fact, the password was highlighted and had plenty of white space around it so that you couldn't miss it. If they really wanted even the remotest form of real security, they would have at least put the password into an envelope.

The pasword is a gimmick with no real substance behind it.

 

[Alice Sr.]

It's just a marketing ploy. There is no "privileged information" that you can't find EASILY elsewhere. It's just dangling a carrot in front of a prospective buyer. If they even remotely cared about security they would change the password from time to time, if not have us use our member #. The down side to havng it on E-bay is that it will probably be busy for a while, but who cares, if I want to know something I would come to this site 1st anyway.
Disney.com is slower than pooh, in more ways than one.

Wow I'm feeling pretty bad, I never bash anything Disney, but that site drives me nuts it's soooo slow.

 

[we3luvdisney]

I agree, it is no big deal, but someone told me that if you insert the user name and password backward you get.....

Free park passes for all the years you own DVC
50% off at Disney Stores, including the one at DTD
An Illuminations cruise each trip to Disneyworld
A free lanyard with 10 pins
An automatic upgrade, when you book reservations
Perferred view with each reservation
DVC approval for 12 people in a studio
Mousekeeping each day
Free valet parking at all resorts

 

[SamSam]

we3luvdisney, lol.....it's all I can do to keep myself from going and logging on backwards! Thanks for the laugh.

 

[Dean]

Renting what ones owns at DVC is expressly allowed by both FL law and the DVC legal paperwork. Only "commercial" renting which would be more like someone put up a sign and were using the logo's for advertising. The idea that renting at all or "for a profit" is commercial and therefore forbidden is wishfull thinking.

 

[WDWMom]

The term " Commercial renting " has been debated many times here before and there has never been a consensus on just what it means.

 

[Dean]

Originally posted by WDWMom
The term " Commercial renting " has been debated many times here before and there has never been a consensus on just what it means.

That's because it doesn't mean what some people want it to mean, renting for a profit.