skier_pete
DIsney-holics Anon
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Wow, we all knew the lockoff premium increase was going to benefit Disney, but looking at the actual numbers it is shocking. 13.9 million more in breakage revenue is HUGE.
And by the way, Happy Lockoff Premium Day everyone!
Today is the first day members will book rooms with the lockoff premium increase.
That was at one resort - over all resorts it's probably in the $40-50 million range. But please tell me again how this benefits the members.
Does Disney need to prove that? Or do the plaintiffs need to prove that it wasn't?
This isn't a criminal case. Pretty sure if Disney were to be taken to court sanctioned arbitration saying that we have access to limited data but what we have access to says Disney is lining it's pockets while hurting its members - they would have to provide proof to the judge as to why they are saying this benefits the membership.
So, the real complaint now is that "we" just didn't recognize that Disney is allowed to make a profit?
No - the complaint is that Disney is making a profit while at the same time taking away benefit from it's members - specifically reducing the number of nights the membership (as a whole) can realistically book at the resort.
Example - a resort has 5,000,000 points at it when all lock-offs are booked as 2-bedrooms, and 5,500,000 points when all lock-offs are split. Raising the lock-off premium changes that number to say 5,800,000 points, the power of our points (the entire membership) dropped by as much as 5%.
Well yes and no. I think the complaint is that a point rebalance should actually minimize breakage income.
That captures it right there - if they are increasing breakage income it does not benefit members.
Raising both, does not help demand imbalance, it may even make it worse.
I completely agree with this statement. What they are claiming to try to improve will in fact only drive the situation further. People considering between studios and 1-BD will be more likely to go to studios. People considering between 2-BD and 1-BD will go to 2-BD, driving 1-BD availability even higher.
Could you tell Y that what you (and I and pretty much everyone following this thread, I think) want is data (best) or at minimum a more detailed explanation as to how the data they have that’s not visible to us via the booking tools leads to such a different conclusion on their part? Thanks for your efforts in this regard.
Like this a lot too! If they provided where they are getting that from it MIGHT help. (Though I already suspect.)