AKL Addonitis

[disnutt]

I apparently have no immunity to this illness because I just got my mailing and now can't think of anything else!

Having never considered adding on until now, what is the fewest # of pts I can do? I saw postings about 50 pt contracts and see the minimum for the $8discount is 100. Because of the addonitis fever I can't make sense of the multiple postings.

Please help!

 

[mamaprincess]

You'll get the $8 discount at 100pts. If you plan on financing, you have to start at 50pts.

 

[cobbler]

THe minimum you can add on is 25 points if you pay cash outright for them.

If you need to finance you need to add on a minimum of 50 points.

The AKL special is if you buy a minimum 100 points and you do NOT want the developer points you can receive $8 off per point. If you want to keep the developer points, it will be the 101 per point

If you want to be a founding member and have your name on the tapestry, you need to purchase a minimum 150 points.

 

[disnutt]

UGH! I could do the 25 pts outright after our tax refund comes back but that won't be until after Feb 28! Can I put them on Disney Visa until I get the refund? (I can't believe I even asked that.)

Also, what is the benefit of being a founding member other than your name on a tapestry?

 

[Marshay]

We just bought into SSR today and our options were to pay by check, credit card or Disney financing. I'm a "newbie" but I imagine the same options are available for add-ons.

 

[cobbler]

You don't have a time limit on when you can buy the 25pts. The only "deadline" is to be a founding member with your name on the tapestry.

 

[LisaS]

UGH! I could do the 25 pts outright after our tax refund comes back but that won't be until after Feb 28! Can I put them on Disney Visa until I get the refund? (I can't believe I even asked that.)

Yes you can pay by credit card. You will have to put at least 10% on your CC when you call. You can pay the remainder by check when you send back your paperwork. I don't know if they will do this for a 25-point purchase, but for larger purchases they will charge you 10% now and the remainder in one month.

Also, what is the benefit of being a founding member other than your name on a tapestry?

That's it. I passed on spending another $5K to get my name on the tapestry. If they had offered something more (like a week's head start booking concierge level) I would have given it some serious consideration...

 

[JodyTG]

As of right now there is no cure, or vaccine, for addonitis.

We bought 160 SSR points two years ago; added on 60 BWV points last year; and right now I'm absolutely obsessed with adding on 50 more BWV points. If I mention it to my husband he will think that I'm nuts and may have me locked away. But 220 points really aren't enough, right? Don't you think I'm right? I must be right because 220+50=270 and if you add the numbers 2,7,and 0 together you get the number 9 which John Lennon said was a mystic, magical number. So it must be fate.

So, I think that if I can just add on 50 more points then my addonitis should go away and all will be well with the world. Do you think I'm right?

 

[csmommy]

The AKL special is if you buy a minimum 100 points and you do NOT want the developer points you can receive $8 off per point. If you want to keep the developer points, it will be the 101 per point

You people are killing me!!!

So, can I get the developer points if I only buy 25? What are the developer points? No that I feel a case of Addonitis coming on or anything...........

 

[Alexander]

As of right now there is no cure, or vaccine, for addonitis.

We bought 160 SSR points two years ago; added on 60 BWV points last year; and right now I'm absolutely obsessed with adding on 50 more BWV points. If I mention it to my husband he will think that I'm nuts and may have me locked away. But 220 points really aren't enough, right? Don't you think I'm right? I must be right because 220+50=270 and if you add the numbers 2,7,and 0 together you get the number 9 which John Lennon said was a mystic, magical number. So it must be fate.

So, I think that if I can just add on 50 more points then my addonitis should go away and all will be well with the world. Do you think I'm right?

Did you take a breath when you were typing this post?
We originally bought 220 points and 10 months later I added another 120 points. So 220 points absolutely isn't enough!

 

[JodyTG]

Did you take a breath when you were typing this post?
We originally bought 220 points and 10 months later I added another 120 points. So 220 points absolutely isn't enough!

I took a few breaths, yeah, but it all just came to me as I was typing it out. And I'm sure that I'll be happy with 270 points. Okay, well, I won't really since I actually want 160 total at BWV, but I'll be happy for now with just an extra 50. I can always add on 50 more next year, right?

 

[disnutt]

So this is going to be a chronic illness for me since I'm no where near 220 yet and we have determined that even that number of points doesn't cure this sickness.

Maybe a little of the hair of the dog that bit me will help me manage my symptoms. I may be making my call Monday to add on.

 

[tiggercrew]

I took a few breaths, yeah, but it all just came to me as I was typing it out. And I'm sure that I'll be happy with 270 points. Okay, well, I won't really since I actually want 160 total at BWV, but I'll be happy for now with just an extra 50. I can always add on 50 more next year, right?

I think points are kind of like closet space...you always use up what you have and you always need more!

 

[JodyTG]

I think points are kind of like closet space...you always use up what you have and you always need more!

Ain't it the truth...

 

[TammyAlphabet]

So, I think that if I can just add on 50 more points then my addonitis should go away and all will be well with the world. Do you think I'm right?

I hear ya sister!! I will go to any length to rationalize a DVC point purchase.

 

[jemiaule]

The addonitis got us too. At first we thought - nah, we will wait and maybe do it later. And then Greenban had to start alllll those threads about AKV. So, I will just blame him entirely rather than my lack of willpower against the Addonitis Monster.

 

[JodyTG]

Then I'll blame him, too. I had thought about adding on, but was able to keep it to the back of my brain until all of the AKV posts and all the people doing add-ons. So, now my WANT has become a NEED.

I emailed my husband at work and he seems "interested", so we'll see if I can call Judy on Monday and get on the waiting list.

Oh, and he didn't even mention institutionalizing me.

 

[DonnaL]

I don't think you'll need to get on a waiting list. I believe AKV points began selling yesterday.

 

[JodyTG]

I don't think you'll need to get on a waiting list. I believe AKV points began selling yesterday.

Yeah, but I want BWV instead of AKV.

 

[SSDonut]

Don't open this thread, don't open this thread. . . .

Hey, look at that thread! I'm not crazy after all!

But I must be crazy, why else would I have spent most of the day thinking about adding on points at AKV all because of a little--albeit nice-looking--postcard that arrived in yesterday's mail.

Our points don't add up to 9. . .
Our points don't cover our November vacation every year. . .
I have a mutual fund (in my name, no less, so sheesh, I could buy points as a present for DH, right, and he wouldn't even have to know about it, 'cause that would ruin the surprise). . .
Our 10th anniversary is coming up . . .
We haven't gone to AKL yet, but we really want to and if we had points there we couldn't keep putting it off. . .

I had addonitis before and I didn't succumb. . .
The mutual fund money will continue to grow if I leave it alone. . .
Sometimes you need to be happy with what you have. . .

I have no clue now how I talked myself out of it last time. . .oh dear. . .

I would like to point out that although this is like a support group, it functions in reverse because you've all given me reasons why I should succumb, rather than the opposite. .

My name is Meg and I have a DVC problem (but it's only a little 150 point problem so far, and that's part of the problem!)