Sell Contract Prior To No Perks

[hayesdvc]

I have purchased all my contracts via the resale market.

I have had a membership prior to the "perks" being taken away last April.

As a rule, I know the perks are based on membership not contracts, however, if I sale all my contracts which qualified my membership for perks and re-bought contracts now that obviously does not qualify for perks, would my same membership continue to have perks ?

I assumed since I have my membership card which has an expiration date on it most likely I could use it until expired to get discounts where the card has to be presented.... not sure about Gold AP. Would I get another membership card? Once you have perks based on the current criteria, can you lose these perks (unless further criteria changes are made) ?

Has anyone experienced this yet?

 

[BillPA]

I would think if you don't own a qualifying contract, you will not get any of the perks that go with it. Just because you have a card, if they remove you from the system, doesn't mean it will still work for perks.

 

[hayesdvc]

I would think if you don't own a qualifying contract, you will not get any of the perks that go with it. Just because you have a card, if they remove you from the system, doesn't mean it will still work for perks.

That is what I was wondering..................... I will not be in a position that my "membership" has no points, however, my qualifying membership would not be qualifying any longer if the membership is based on simply the contracts instead of the date our initial, on-going membership was created.

 

[chalee94]

I have a qualifying resale contract now, but if I bought a new resale contract and sold my old contract, I would expect to lose the perks.

Interesting question, though. I'm not 100% sure.

 

[CarolMN]

Card may work for shopping and dining discounts. It won't work for the DVC annual passes o r any other special DVC tickets. The CMs look you up in the database before they issue DVC passes.

MS (database) knows which points are "qualified" and which are not. For example, should you want to take a cruise and pay with points, you would only be able to use your "qualified" points. You would not be able to use any of the other points to pay for that cruise.

As an experiment or if you wanted to verify what I posted, call MS and ask how many points you have that could be used for a cruise or a stay at the DLH in California. They'll know.

 

[Dean]

The technical answer is if the points you have are non qualified you'd lose the perks. In reality will they be able to track it, who knows. I would not be surprised if one continued to have access to the perks for some time in this situation but one should be prepared to lose them or buy a 25 point retail contract to get them back. Selling to rebuy is almost never a good choice unless one is downsizing significantly, going from something that is worth more per point than they would be buying or going from a smaller to a much larger single contract.

 

[hayesdvc]

Thanks for your reply. I think I will just hold where I am.