I had one CM on the phone today crowing that these new passes would save my family over $1000 per year. I kindly asked her to explain her math, since our DVC APs didn't have blackout dates before. She told me that, well, now we can go in the summer! I explained to her that in fact, we were always able to go in the summer, and now for the privilege of being able to keep our reservations at DVC's most solidly booked time of the year, members are being charged an extra $100 to avoid the blackout. She told me that not paying for MM would save us $1000 over the year. I told her I didn't want to get MM to begin with, so this didn't make a savings any more than them telling us about not having to pay $50000 for a gilded elephant and telling me I was now saving $50000, nor do we drive and need free parking, so we would like to opt out of those benefits. This didn't go well. She was telling me that everyone she had talked to today had been over the moon and thrilled about these changes. I politely asked if she had been talking to the office of the CFO. Then she transferred me to her supervisor, who gave me clear information on the changes and admitted that they had been bombarded with "valuable feedback" all day.
