Small 25 point contract through Disney

[minnieluvzmickey]

You also don't have to match your use year if you're buying resale. Our use year doesn't turn out to be particularly convenient for us (March...we often travel in Dec. or Jan.) so I might actually look for a resale with a different use year. If you budget your points completely separately, I don't see where it would be a huge issue. I believe if you purchase an add-on from Disney they will only sell you the use year you already own.....so if you want to move away from your current use year a resale would be your only choice.

So if I added 25 points through disney and my use year is Feb.....then my use year for the add on must also be feb? and then I wouldn't be able to get the extra years points cause feb would be 2010.......is that right?

 

[jamstew]

So if I added 25 points through disney and my use year is Feb.....then my use year for the add on must also be feb? and then I wouldn't be able to get the extra years points cause feb would be 2010.......is that right?

I think if you added on right now, you would get February 2009 points. Someone will correct me if I'm wrong

 

[rlduvall]

I think if you added on right now, you would get February 2009 points. Someone will correct me if I'm wrong

Correct - if they are available. In March, I wanted to add on 50 April UY points for AKV, but they only had 17 April 2008 points available, so I held off. In other words, if I had purchased the 50 point add-on, I would have received the 50 points, but only beginning in 2009.

 

[Luv2Scrap]

IF you can find a 25 point contract in your UY on the resale market, it would likely sell at a premium. It also likely wouldn't have last year's points come with it as the contracts from Disney do. I value those points at $10 each which gets the cost per Disney and resale to be very close. In the case of my AKV add on for 100 points last week, Disney's cost was better than resale after considering incentives, no closing costs, getting prior year points to bank, etc. Not to mention the points are instant with Disney. No ROFR at all. No waiting time to get paperwork from the sellers, etc.

And if one does come on the market, it sells within two minutes of the email being sent out. That's what just happened to me an hour ago. I called within 10 minutes and it had sold within two.

 

[jamstew]

Correct - if they are available. In March, I wanted to add on 50 April UY points for AKV, but they only had 17 April 2008 points available, so I held off. In other words, if I had purchased the 50 point add-on, I would have received the 50 points, but only beginning in 2009.

My bad -- I thought the question was about BLT. I attended the webcast last night, so I probably have BLT February UY on the brain