Not saying this is you but never seen a group of people get so worked up and cheer for people not to get discounts. It makes them feel better knowing someone else gets stuck with a bigger bill or costly purchase. The annoyance is directed at the people rather than the billion dollar conglomerate for not enforcing their own rules. Entire perk is based on taking away past privileges and people want to feel better than everyone else now.
I'm a big fan of FAIR EXCHANGES.
Not saying this is you, "BUT" (btw that but means disregard everything before the BUT, same as it did when you used it)
This has nothing to do with sticking someone with a bigger bill, it has everything to do with a fair exchange between the consumer and Disney and the Disney and it shareholders.
If cast members give out discounts that are unearned, and if Disney doesn't correct the cast member, then sooner or later, everyone get a discount.
In some cases cast members are giving DVC discounts to non DVC members all together. If this were to continue to expand, at soon point Disney would have no choice but to raise prices on everybody to cover the loss... As a Disney shareholder, I would like to see a dividend again sometime SOON, instead of having to cover these losses....
What's more fair, you getting a benefit you didn't pay for, of some grandmother that can't afford to buy both of her grand kids a stuffed Mickey because Disney was forced to raise prices 20 percent... and she is on a budget...
There is no such thing as a victimless crime.....
And make no mistake, a cast member giving away unearned discounts is a crime...
The billion dollar corporation knows they have a problem and have been addressing it with training, so everyone gets what they are entitled to, and Disney doesn't have to raise prices at all.
The billion dollar corporation, as you correctly pointed out, owes it's shareholders (me as one very, very small one) the duty of enforcing their own rules and policies....
The perk is basically a reward for purchasing DVC directly from Disney. It was never a privilege or an entitlement for just belonging to the club.