Then there's the nuance of UY and DVC selling you contracts with current points. So depending on UY you might have been assigning back either 22UY or 23UY points. And that also might have depended on what month you purchased - if you jumped on the offer or waited.
It really sucked for those of us who have use years earlier in the year because there was no way for me to get the 2022 points without getting a new use year. I don't think they started offering MB again until early May. I recently purchased direct and could've received the 2022 points for December but decided I'd rather not have 3 use years, especially with 2 of the use years having points from the same resort even though the extra points sure would've been nice.
I opted for two use years to get the 2022 points. It’s actually worked to my benefit as now I have 2 contracts to transfer in & out of
If I was getting a new UY and it was at a resort I didn't already have, I probably would've been more okay with it. But as it is I already had 2 UYs and we really just wanted more points at RIV in our April UY. The other UY I have is March, it's unfortunate how the spacing turned out for that but it more of a sacrifice I made for the sub AUL which I rarely see has an April UY.I opted for two use years to get the 2022 points. It’s actually worked to my benefit as now I have 2 contracts to transfer in & out of
something like that happened when we bought RIV direct in 2019. We wanted February UY but no Feb 2019 points, so we would have started out borrowing for our 2019 New Years’ trip. We ended up matching our VGF UY, which wasn’t ideal but turned out ok after all - used Aug 2019 points for our December 2019 trip.
At least all of your points ended up in 1 use year. I'm okay with that or having 2 separate use years equally spaced out, or even 3 separate use years assuming I don't own contracts from the same resort in multiple use years but I drew the line at having 3 separate use years and having 2 contracts with the same home resort in separate use years. I love doing mental gymnastics for DVC but I didn't want to do thattt much and just wanted to be able to group all of my RIV points together for future 2BR/GV stays.
Totally agree. No, we have 3 home resorts across 2 UYs. But each resort’s points, even in multiple contracts, are in the same UY. It’s just they’re not really well balanced - the majority of our points are in August, which is FINE, but I’d have preferred to have a closer to 50-50 split between August (VGF and RIV) and February (BLT) . Instead it’s more like 80-20, especially since we added on at VGF with an August UY. I definitely wouldn’t have been able to keep track of points in 1 resort spread across 1 or more UYs.
I’m the lunatic who couldn’t pass up “free* 2022 points” so I have 4 UY across 3 home resorts. So far it’s going ok (though my dashboard is a bit unwieldy), but at some point I will probably try to get down to 3 UYs.
I'm surprised those are available at 7 months. They haven't been during the times we generally go
Didn't sound like it. Our Guide called one evening last week that they just got an email that there were a few points being released and we grabbed a small contract on the spot (50 then rewrote to 40 the next day). Lucky our Guide was west coast and still at work that evening.
Do you mind sharing what they charged Direct for those today? Without the Add-On Tool active, seems they can charge what they want
Hi TinkAgainU sorry but I don’t know what the “current” price is either. We were on course to buy the day they announced “sold out” and so the price was the $230/pt then in play. I too dread to think what they’d charge now.Do you mind sharing what they charged Direct for those today? Without the Add-On Tool active, seems they can charge what they want
We just signed our little add on that was written up after the "sold out" announcement. Our was still the $230/pt.Do you mind sharing what they charged Direct for those today? Without the Add-On Tool active, seems they can charge what they want
If they can ROFR at $140-150 and keep VGF up while moving points at $230, that’s a pretty sweet margin for limited work AND it will be easier to sell Poly Tower if there aren’t cheap resale contracts available next door. The wildcard will be if/when they decide to try to put a floor under PVB resale.
With VGF being removed from the add-on-tool, I thought that they were in the process of updating its price. But this is the first time that I've paid close attention to when a resort becomes sold out. Thanks for the info. $230/pt until we hear otherwise.
