MrInfinity
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 23, 2012
I think many of you are looking at this the wrong way. First of all, the $20 bonus on the DVA was only until the end of this year anyways. (the bonus was only on redemptions using the DVA through December 31, 2017.) In fact, in many cases, people are making more from the 5% extra than they would have with the bonus through the DVA.
Well, yeah. The Bonus has been expiring at the end of the year every year. But in practice, it came back every time. So I'm as bummed as any about losing this great option. We were one of the first to embrace it when everyone else was slamming it as non-functional, and now that it's more or less gotten acceptance, they cancel it. I think it stopped becoming a way for Disney to encourage people to save for trips and became a money-generating engine for optimizers, so they had to cancel.
Sigh. It worked great for us from the beginning. Never seemed to have the problems that others raved about. We opened our accounts trip by trip, put our money in, and got our 2%'s like clockwork. I'm happy to get the 5% since we had a good chunk sitting there, but I'd give that back in an instant to have the functionality of storing vacation money and gift cards securely via these accounts. I always loved it because I could charge random things like the down payments, prepaid dining or other misc, and if I had to cancel, the refund would come back to my DVA. No worries about managing gift cards. Now things will be more complicated.