I offered $150 on a contract yesterday. The broker said Disney had ROFR’d one as high as $160 spring 2021. I chose not to respond but spring 2022 with VGF as an active selling resort and spring 2021 are lightyears apart. I HIGHLY DOUBT they would ROFR $160 now!Agreed that a lower price would be extra savings, but one can recoup that 2500 easily in blue card discounts (although to me the unrestricted points is worth paying extra for me if we’re talking about a 17/pt price difference because who knows what’ll happen in 2042).
I’m in the camp that things sellers are irrational and that brokers aren’t doing their job. And after VGF2 started selling, it was really easy to tell which brokers just simply aren’t informed. I had a broker scoff at my low offers for VGF resale, even telling me that the 207/pt price for VGF2 was only if you’re buying 200+ points. Another told me a contract in the 160/pt range would never pass ROFR (the 125pt I got for $158 did). The main benefit—that brokers advertise—to going resale is the savings versus going direct. So the price has to appeal enough in order to warrant going resale versus the current rate. Contracts for VGF at 190 and up (even ones at 180) are too overpriced, but then again that’s just my opinion but I’m sure most buyers share those sentiments since the majority of the ones priced 190 and up have been sitting on the market for months.