Do we know why those dates won’t work? I’m curious? Wide open availability as far as I can see.
Bad situation.
Except the owner did live up to their side of the contract. Pretty much all dvc rental contracts I've seen have said the points are non-refundable. So their end of the contract would be to book the room. That's why there's a risk in renting DVC points. Covid presented a unique situation, but there are others who have had to cancel for illness, etc in the past and unless they got insurance they were out the money. That's why these rooms are selling at a discounted rate. As someone else said, you can pay more to get the room from disney, but then have much higher flexibility.
I know they mentioned having 4 standard studios booked. If they would not . Standard studios are very cheap point wise and hard to get. Maybe the dvc owner doesn't have enough points to rent 4 studios pool view especially with the new borrowing rule or maybe the renter is unwilling to pay more for the additional points it would take or remove a day to make up the difference. I rescheduled my August trip which was booked in a standard studio and I had to lose a couple of days because the standard view had almost no availability and piece my stay together at 3 different resorts.
A LOT harder when it's an individual and not a company like David's. It makes a big difference.
I think you need a little more info from the dvc owner's side of the story before you go ahead and call them sleezy. First off, if they work for disney in sales they most likely have been out of work for awhile and may not have the funds to provide a refund. And yes some people rent out their dvc to make a profit. Some people also rent it out when money is tight and times are tough and it is either that or sell. There may not be much more they can do and we also don't know what all they offered when trying to rebook the trip. They could have said well the boardwalk is full but these are the alternatives and the renter said no. Or said the options available cost more points so you would need to lose a day or two and they also said no. Or they could have only looked for what the renter asked for and not tried to find any other accommodations elsewhere. We don't know how accommodating both parties were to try to make alternate dates work and that seems important before throwing around insults.
Exactly how is the OP "bashing" the owner? By explaining that the owner has ghosted them? That they promised a refund by email even though their contract says otherwise and now won't respond to emails? That's "bashing"?
I think that renting out $5000 worth of points without any contact information is sleezy. I think that ghosting a renter and not responding to emails is sleezy. They have the cash and don't want to be bothered by the renter. I guess there could be a some other reason for dropping off the face of the earth, but Occum's Razor says that the simplest explanation is probably the correct one.
OK, fair, I don't know the details and if there was an offer to book them anywhere else then the renter should take that. Now is not the time to be renting out points for a profit though, so if no such offer was made, I think it is more than fair to say hey, you said you'd rent my points, COVID happened, I could have rented them before when you had them tied up by agreeing to rent, but now the market is soft so I can't and I am out MF's, so can you cover that? The OP should accept that gladly.
While I don’t condone making a profit from someone’s pain, I think you’re mistaken when it comes to the value of those lost points. It’s not just the annual dues but also what it cost that owner to purchase those points to begin with. I have no idea what the OP paid per point. I’m not going to attempt the math. And I don’t know what the owner paid for their DVC contract. For all we know, they took in less than they spent on those points. There are a lot of owners who rent their points just to recover their expenses. This owner could be one of them. Please don’t assume that anything over the cost of annual dues is a profit. It’s not.
