I am looking at purchasing and have seen the discussions about a special with developers points. Can anyone explain what exactly are developers points and why are they such a good deal?
It is just an allotment of points that DVC gives you for joining with at least 160 point contract then you would get a one time allotment of developer points.Which you could use for another vacation they have to be used within 12 months and if you book at a DVC resort with these points then you can only book 7 months out.
Developer Points are a one-time set of points that you get for no charge.
For example, in the current promotion, if you got 100 Developer Points, you would have an extra 100 points to use towards booking your DVC stays. These would be in addition to the points you would receive each year according to your Use Year. DP are for one use only, so once you use them they are gone.
There are a few stipulations to using DP:
1. They must be used up by 12 months from the date of contract
2. They have no home resort priority, so you can only use them to book vacations at 7 months or less from the date of travel.
Thanks for the info. I saw on the dvc website that there is a cash/credit incentive (I think it was $1600) for buying at SSR. Will this be offered with the developers points?
Yes it is in addition to that cash incentive.So you would get the 1600.00 off and then you would get 100 developer pints with that to.
But that promotion ends Monday,it has been extended 2 weeks ago and I spoke to my guide and they said this was the last time it would be extended.But none of us no for sure.
Thanks for the info. I saw on the dvc website that there is a cash/credit incentive (I think it was $1600) for buying at SSR. Will this be offered with the developers points?
We got the cash incentive (aka- $6.00-8.00 off per point), and the dev. points. Basically, the dev. points. just give you that many extra for THIS year only. If you plan on buying, you might as well take advantage of getting the extra points!
Also, another sales point for us- look into if they have any '07 use years left. We got an Aug. use year so we got 160 '07 pts. (since August '08 hasn't passed yet), 160 dev. pts. and we'll get 160 this Aug. Plus we already had a vacation booked for this summer with our first contract. We don't know what to do with all of those points! We'll actually we didn't know what to do- we decided to max out the summer vacation with extra nights, cruise, etc.!! So now we've used them all-plus some of those '08 points!
(The only thing is- I don't know if the '07 use year offer was only for those adding on or for new owners. And I know that certain use years at certain resorts are sold out- we had to take SSR to get the '07, AKV '07 was sold out) Give it a try!
The $1600 off would be $10 off each point (regularly $104)- so $94.00 pp. Also that $1600 discount would then reflect the minimum new purchase- 160 points. If you're only doing a 100 point add on, the total would obviously be less.
I also think that it is $10.00 off for SSR and maybe only $8 off for AKV- That's what it was three weeks ago when we added on, but not sure if that's still the current....can anyone confirm.....?