Soak Up Summer Savings email questions...

[Little E]

Hi Disfriends!

DH and I are direct owners at GF and we would like to purchase BC at some point. I was watching the resale market for a while back in the spring, and then life happened with some unexpected big expenses, so we decided to put our BC purchase on hold for a bit. Two days ago, I got an email from DVC that references $5300 in savings to add on points. I'm confused about the "savings", and I'm wondering if other DVC folks might have more info? Here are my questions:

1. There is a $2550 "summer offer" and a $2750 "welcome home" offer. What do these mean/how are they different? And, how can you qualify for both?
2. Does this "add on" offer count if you already own direct at one resort but want to purchase a different resort?
3. How long is this offer good for?
4. Did all DVC folks get this email?

I have contacted our DVC guide, and I got an "out of office until July 1" message. I'm just curious enough I thought I'd toss this out to more knowledgeable DVC folks here. I figure this "savings" has lots of strings attached, so I wanted to figure out what those strings were. I'm sure this deals can't beat what I've been looking at through resale, but I have to admit that buying direct with our GF points was easy peasy and we got our points to use right away. I thought I would at least run this by my DVC Disfriends.

Thanks so much for any info!

 

[crvetter]

I’d look at the following thread. People over there will also be much more able to answer your questions.

https://www.disboards.com/threads/summer-2024-direct-incentives.3948790/

 

[Little E]

@crvetter Thank you! I looked for a thread before I posted, but obviously, I didn't look hard enough.

 

[VGCgroupie]

The "welcome home" portion was confusing to me at first too. The welcome home is in addition to the other discount, you qualify for it by having a trip already booked in the future or possibly just returned home from a trip. The welcome home does not apply if you buy SSR, BLT or AKV. It only applies to RIV, CFW, VDH and AUL. None of the incentives are for BC

 

[Little E]

@veginaz Thank you! This is actually what I wanted to know; this is really helpful. I just wanted to make sense of the email. Bummer that the incentives don't apply to BC, but I can't say I'm surprised.

 

[VGCgroupie]

@veginaz Thank you! This is actually what I wanted to know; this is really helpful. I just wanted to make sense of the email. Bummer that the incentives don't apply to BC, but I can't say I'm surprised.

If they had added the welcome home to SSR or made the discount higher I woulda bought it, but the current incentive doesn't make sense over resale

 

[Mikey15]

If you’re already a direct owner, I think the last thing I’d do is buy BC direct anyway! You’ll not get any membership extras you don’t already have, and there’s only 17-1/2 years left on the contract.

Clear cut reason to buy resale and not direct.

 

[Little E]

@Mikey15 yep. That's what DH and I have concluded. Thanks for confirming what we suspected.