Tell me about the DVC Presentation

mtmbyck

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We did a Starwood one last March and it was awful! Heavy pressure and we had to tell at least 4 different people NO as they kept wheeling and dealing the price. It was supposed to be 90 minutes and was over 2 hours.....

Can kids stay with you?
Is it high pressure?
Are they all at SSR?
How do you see AKV?

We are renting a DVC's points at SSR. Will Disney know this and call us daily to book a presentation do you think?
 
The DVC tour is very low to no pressure. We took it twice, and both times they were done at or slightly before the 90 min mark. I suppose it would have been longer had we decided to actually complete paperwork on it - but we didn't and finally did our transaction via phone a few months later.

I arranged ours via a park kiosk both times. They picked us up at our resort given the day and time we were looking for. They drove us over to the preview center at SSR and we checked in. The kids were checked in to the supervised kids area and got to play games, video games, etc. DW and I were offered various beverages, muffins, cookies, etc while we waited about 4 min for the guide to appear. We sat down in a "living room" and he proceeded to ask some questions about how we like to vacation. Since we knew some about DVC prior to going in for the 1st tour, it was definitely less than what I was hearing from other folks nearby. After maybe 10 min. of that type of conversation we got up and walked over to see the models. We went across the street into the 2 SSR models - and spent a while in those. After that we over to another building and saw the AKV models. (Now they have BLT models there, too).

We probably spent a good 45 min. just looking around the model rooms, and then headed back over to the "office". At that point the guide showed us into a private room with a dvd player where he proceeded to show us some key points about DVC and how it all works. We went over pricing, the then-current incentive and any additional questions that came up. He left the room for about 10 min to give us a chance to talk, and then came back. We thanked him for his time and said we'd think about it further. The ONLY KIND OF PRESSURE WE HAD was when he told us that the incentive offered was only good until the day we left WDW (it was over and above what the general incentive was). He thanked us for coming in, gave us a bag of goodies and then took us over to get the kids and have some ice cream in the ice cream parlor. While we had ice cream they took our picture with a painted Mickey/Minnie backdrop, and handed it to as we walked out the door back to the courtesy van that then took us "anywhere we wanted to go" - we were headed off for a dinner ressie at DTD - so the driver took us there.

After we left the world - we got a nice note from the guide at home a couple of weeks later just encouraging us to call with any additional questions. The general incentive was good after we left, but the on-site one we discussed was a bit better. No bad at all, pressure wise.

The same kind of thing happened our 2nd time around, except it was shorter since we'd already had the "introductory stuff" the first time around.
 
Our experience was the same as the PP (we also did it twice and the 2nd time we were staying at SSR on rented points)

The first time, after we were done, they delivered our bag of goodies to our room at the BC so we wouldn't have to carry them around all night. The van dropped us off at WL for our dinner ADR at WCC :thumbsup2

2nd visit, they didn't have to drive us anywhere :laughing: Still got "goodies", and we were pushing the guide for a bigger contract :rotfl: He kept pushing back at the 160 min pt contract and we kept adding it and saying, "no, 250 sounds like what we'd need" Talk about "low pressure" sales :lmao: We took all the info back to the room, did more analysis on our own. Our guide called to check on us when he said he would, again no pressure. We called back and scheduled another appt with him a few days later when we had made up our minds.

Also wanted to mention, the kids area is great but best for the under 12 crowd ;) We were also able to have the kids come on the tour with us to see the rooms and then check them into the kids area for the "talking" portion of the presentation.
 
It was a low-pressure pitch. I won't say sell, because they don't really need to sell it.
 

I joined at HHI over 10 years ago and experienced no pressure what so ever. I was just at SSR in September 08 with by brother and SIL and they decided to take the tour. They wanted myself and DH to go with them for support. We took the tour with them and it was very refreshing to know they have not changed 'sales' tactics at all. My brother and SIL were first given the little chat in the 'living room'.

Then we all proceeded over to where they have the mock rooms set up for AKV & BLT. By the way, even though they are mock rooms they are very accurate in their details of how a real room appears.

After the little walk through we headed back to the Preview Center and went into a small office type room. There the DVC guide provided a very nice explaination of how DVC works and how it is a good value. No pressure to buy and he even encouraged taking time to think about it, talk privately amongst themselves and to call him back when or if they wanted to do the paperwork. He only stated the incentives he detailed were only good until the last day they left WDW. It was no pressure at all...it was actually fun!

They will NOT call you to take a tour even if you are staying there on rented points. You have to make the first move to set the appointment up.

By the way...I am happy to say my Brother and SIL decided to buy 210 points at AKV with a December UY...I am so pleased for them!

Good luck in your decision and make the best one for your family. DVC is awesome but may not work for everyone. But for us, it was the best decision ever!!!:cheer2: :cheer2:
 
I agree wholeheartedly with what the other respondents have said; a DVC presentation is low key and no pressure. I also wanted to mention that I have been to other timeshare presentations years ago (TrendWest and Marriott) and there is just no comparison. I know exactly what you are talking about regarding having to say "NO!" to several people just to get the heck out of there, but DVC is just not like that at all. Other than in passing, the only time another person was brought in was when we had made our decision and were signing our paperwork; they have someone other than the guide who is contract savy and explained/notarized all the documents.

Go and have fun and do not worry about buying ... unless you want to!

Blahnde
 
I agree with PP, this is a great experience! We sat through two II timeshare sales pitches, and they were very high-pressure. DVC was nothing like that! Our 3 kids were bummed that they could not go back to the Kids Club when we stayed at SSR later on. They loved the ice cream shop, too. We actually went twice on the same trip - we decided we wanted the kids to see the room models, and look again ourselves. Our guide was very good-natured about it all. He even let us get ice cream again! The "treats" given at the presentation vary, but are all good! =)

Our guide was intuitive enough to notice that we knew a lot already about DVC, so he didn't drag us through the long presentation. He was very friendly and helpful, and we have since added on even more points. He calls each time we visit, just to say hi and see if there is anything we need.

One of the best selling points for us was the low-key approach. We had done our homework beforehand, but we still learned a LOT, and we were given total freedom to make our own choices. Like other posters have mentioned, the II people didn't want to take NO for an answer - we felt like we were in a used car lot by the time we left!

Whether DVC is right for you is up to you, but don't hesitate to do the tour.
 
I also wanted to share that we had a very similar experience. The only "pressure" (not really) was being told that incentives change over time and that the incentives we were being offered may not be available in the future. Our "visit" lasted a little over 2 hours because we toured the model rooms twice, once without the children and then we took the children out of the kids area and toured with them - we then realized we were getting close to our dinner ADR, our guide called ahead to make sure they held our ADR, and had the DVC driver drive us there - and we left WITHOUT signing anything. We did come back the next morning to join DVC! and was offered Ice-cream a second time :) !
 















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