Unintended Consequences of Disney’s horizontal point reallication

[Johnny D]

Though most likely, by the letter of the contract Disney was allowed to shift points between unit type accommodations, it seems pretty shady to me; especially how I remember the examples given to me during the purchase process of how reallocation worked. The example that was given was vertical shifts of points not horizontal shifts.

Anyway, moving on, I wanted to do an add on at CC. I was going to buy direct, however even with the new restrictions, the secondary market just became more attractive. I will now buy on the secondary market and buy a greater number of points with the dollars saved to account for Disney raising the point totals. Who knows, this year a studio maybe 17 points, three years from now it may be 21 points.

 

[ziravan]

Or buy a fixed week.

 

[DougEMG]

Or buy a fixed week.

Fixed weeks are definitely sounding like a way to protect from these type of point adjustments.

 

[Johnny D]

Travel at different times of the year, fixed week doesn’t work for me.

 

[skippytx]

You don't have to use the points during your fixed week. You'll get an amount of points equal to the cost points needed to stay in your fixed week accommodations, but they can be used at another time or at another resort just like regular DVC points.

https://www.disboards.com/threads/purchasing-a-guaranteed-week.3436056/

 

[Johnny D]

You don't have to use the points during your fixed week. You'll get an amount of points equal to the cost points needed to stay in your fixed week accommodations, but they can be used at another time or at another resort just like regular DVC points.

https://www.disboards.com/threads/purchasing-a-guaranteed-week.3436056/

Thank you!

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

You don't have to use the points during your fixed week. You'll get an amount of points equal to the cost points needed to stay in your fixed week accommodations, but they can be used at another time or at another resort just like regular DVC points.

https://www.disboards.com/threads/purchasing-a-guaranteed-week.3436056/

What it has a possibility for is to be appealing for resale if it's a desired week but if one is going to never use it then there isn't any protection against point increases with buying a fixed week and there are no discounts available on the purchase. At this point I think there's getting to be a bit of a spread between CCV resale and direct that it's probably possible to benefit going that direction and getting more points with those savings vs paying even more direct for the fixed week.