You know something. I brought resale after the 01/19 restrictions, and not being able to book into Riviera and other future resorts doesn't hurt as much to me as not being able to utilize the blue card member benefits (which of course I don't have either).
If anything, that's the benefit I want most, but not willing to pay a premium for, unless I know I can recover the cost difference. It needs to have a break-even point for what you normally do anyways, meaning if I did plan on going to WDW at least two times every 3 years, than it would be worth it, as I can see buying annual passes, once every 3 years would eventually lead to cost recovery (even if the benefits can be taken away anytime). But if I am just taking more trips than I normally would, and buying annual passes just to justify the extra cost of direct membership, than it's not worth doing to me. I just would like to have that choice, where I can decide to buy an annual pass some years, instead of having to do it continually to get to cost recovery.
This does make me wonder though (and I know DVC has zero chances of undoing anything, nor are we entitled to anything), but if DVC were to undo / rollback the 01/19 restrictions of not being able to book new resorts, or lower the direct buy-in minimum back to 25 points (where it is easy to justify buying 25 points direct), what would people actually prefer. Again, I know this ain't happening, but I do wonder what people value more. Perhaps I need to start a new polling thread for this question.
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If anything, that's the benefit I want most, but not willing to pay a premium for, unless I know I can recover the cost difference. It needs to have a break-even point for what you normally do anyways, meaning if I did plan on going to WDW at least two times every 3 years, than it would be worth it, as I can see buying annual passes, once every 3 years would eventually lead to cost recovery (even if the benefits can be taken away anytime). But if I am just taking more trips than I normally would, and buying annual passes just to justify the extra cost of direct membership, than it's not worth doing to me. I just would like to have that choice, where I can decide to buy an annual pass some years, instead of having to do it continually to get to cost recovery.
This does make me wonder though (and I know DVC has zero chances of undoing anything, nor are we entitled to anything), but if DVC were to undo / rollback the 01/19 restrictions of not being able to book new resorts, or lower the direct buy-in minimum back to 25 points (where it is easy to justify buying 25 points direct), what would people actually prefer. Again, I know this ain't happening, but I do wonder what people value more. Perhaps I need to start a new polling thread for this question.
Great3