Where's all the great DVC merchandise?

[sjdisneywedding]

I'll play devil's advocate and simply point out that Disney/DVC has 16+ years worth of merchandise sales figures and DVC membership numbers to drive their manufacturing decisions.

I think the biggest issue may be the fact that members only see brief snapshots of what is available during any given trip. In the relatively short 5 1/2 years since our first DVC stay, I've seen quite a wide variety of items offered. I have seen MANY different shirt designs--t-shirts, polos, long sleeve, short sleeve, tank, men's designs, women's designs, resort-specific, generic, and so on.

I have also seen magnets, Christmas ornaments, glasses, keychains, jackets, bags, license plates, umbrellas, caps, fanny packs, water bottles, luggage tags, resort artwork, can cozys......the list seems endless.

To me it's more of an immediate gratification thing...just because they don't have a particular item when you visit doesn't mean they have never made such an item or that they never will again. If we want to continue seeing new products they have to phase-out the old.

The resorts we tend to spend the most time at are the BoardWalk and Saratoga. IMO, both seem to carry a good variety of DVC items. SSR's shop is fairly small, but about half of it is devoted to DVC items. If I could only visit one location, that would probably be it. BWV usually has a good selection along the far right-hand side of the store (if standing on the BW looking toward the store).

yes I have seen all the different merchandise over the years, but that doesnt do much for the variety now. It doesnt help anyone now that DVC may have sold a certain glass or magnet 5 years ago.

you dont phase out the old products when theres a limited variety of the new coming in.

with the growing number of dvc'ers every day, I htink there is a lot of room there for quite a bit more for selection.

 

[pilferk]

I know that they argued that there wouldn't be enough business to keep a site going. But that was years ago when there were fewer than 50,000 members. Now that we have over 115,000 member families, I can't believe it wouldn't be profitable. The company I work for only has about 10,000 employees and we have our own online store. I can tell you that I would rather have a DVC polo any day.

Heck, even if they just put up an annual or quarterly catalog of merch in .pdf format and then give usl an 800 number (even if it was the WDW Gen Merch number) to place an order...I'd be fine with that.

Costs would be next to nothing!

 

[nickmom]

I agree. An online store would be great.
Merch can be bought at the gift shops at the DVC hotels.
We were just down in Sept stayed at OKW and bought some things, but wish we would have gotten 2 car window stickers. My car could use on too. A hooded sweatshirt would be nice.

 

[TLCDisney]

We just got back yesterday from SSR. I searched for 10 days for SSR pins and nothing! Every park, DTD, resorts...We looked it up online at DTD and they showed there was a new pin introduced just a month ago but it was nowhere to be found at WDW and no one knew where we could find it. I'm going to look online today.

 

[TLCDisney]

I agree. An online store would be great.
Merch can be bought at the gift shops at the DVC hotels.
We were just down in Sept stayed at OKW and bought some things, but wish we would have gotten 2 car window stickers. My car could use on too. A hooded sweatshirt would be nice.

SSR had DVC car magnets and stickers but no specific resort stickers.

 

[Jillpie]

I guess another question would be, what would you like them to offer? Are there any items that you would be excited to see on a DVC merchandise website?

My wishlist...
1. BCV specific coffee mug
2. BCV car sticker (the oval kind, love my DVC one )
3. BCV magnets for the fridge (not just BC ones)

 

[Inkmahm]

Add me to the list of members who wouldn't be able to resist shopping at an online DVC store.

 

[BWV Dreamin]

I just bought a "DVC Member 2007" t-shirt off of ebay. It only cost me $11.00 total, but I saw that the tag had $39.00 on it. Whoa.....I mean its just a regular t-shirt. If all the stuff is that expensive, I don't know if it would be worth it.

 

[Claire L]

We just got back yesterday from SSR. I searched for 10 days for SSR pins and nothing! Every park, DTD, resorts...We looked it up online at DTD and they showed there was a new pin introduced just a month ago but it was nowhere to be found at WDW and no one knew where we could find it. I'm going to look online today.

I got a SSR pin about 10 days ago at the Pin trading shop in DTD.

Agree SSR had a poor selection of DVC stuff as Wigit12 says.

Claire

 

[GoofyasGoofy]

Add me to the list of members who wouldn't be able to resist shopping at an online DVC store.

Me too! An on-line store as part of the DVC website would be awsome!

 

[eva]

yes I have seen all the different merchandise over the years, but that doesnt do much for the variety now. It doesnt help anyone now that DVC may have sold a certain glass or magnet 5 years ago.

you dont phase out the old products when theres a limited variety of the new coming in.

with the growing number of dvc'ers every day, I htink there is a lot of room there for quite a bit more for selection.

Totally agree! I've been a member for over 10 years and I have never seen a good selection at any of the DVC resorts in all those 10 years. Just because they offered a certain Christmas ornament 6 years ago for 4 months doesn't really mean they have a good selection of items. All I know is that there are over 115,000 families that are DVC members. I'm in sales and merchandising and there is no way that I wouldn't be taping into that through web merchandising. I would at least be sending out a catalog for the holidays.

 

[sratay]

I've been a member with DVC since 1992 and the merchandise selection has always been sad. A couple of times, though not recently, they'd offer merchandise within a mailing such as a watch or an ornament but that was it. Just a few items at a time. Each time I visit WDW I see all the different items themed to the different resorts and how it changes EVERY year and I keep coming back to the same DVC logo on one or two shirts at all the DVC resorts. They've made a little progress in their imagination the past couple of years with their merchandise, but it still seems like an afterthought compared to the non DVC resorts. Oh well, I guess I'm saving money with their lack of cool DVC stuff.
Steve in Iowa

 

[TLSnell1981]

I'll play devil's advocate and simply point out that Disney/DVC has 16+ years worth of merchandise sales figures and DVC membership numbers to drive their manufacturing decisions.

I think the biggest issue may be the fact that members only see brief snapshots of what is available during any given trip. In the relatively short 5 1/2 years since our first DVC stay, I've seen quite a wide variety of items offered. I have seen MANY different shirt designs--t-shirts, polos, long sleeve, short sleeve, tank, men's designs, women's designs, resort-specific, generic, and so on.

I have also seen magnets, Christmas ornaments, glasses, keychains, jackets, bags, license plates, umbrellas, caps, fanny packs, water bottles, luggage tags, resort artwork, can cozys......the list seems endless.

To me it's more of an immediate gratification thing...just because they don't have a particular item when you visit doesn't mean they have never made such an item or that they never will again. If we want to continue seeing new products they have to phase-out the old.

The resorts we tend to spend the most time at are the BoardWalk and Saratoga. IMO, both seem to carry a good variety of DVC items. SSR's shop is fairly small, but about half of it is devoted to DVC items. If I could only visit one location, that would probably be it. BWV usually has a good selection along the far right-hand side of the store (if standing on the BW looking toward the store).

One would think.... with the addition of 8 DVCs....there would now be more of a demand for merchandise.