Now you have me confused. My Member ID is 12 digits. My Club ID is 6 digits before the decimal point. Our contract numbers are 7 digits before the decimal point (I understand the first 3 digits represent the home resort, so the last four are the actual contract number). Which of these is the "member number"? Is there another "member number"?
Member number or contract number?
Yes, that's my confusion! I'm trying to find out which number is being referred to as Member Number here.
Okay, our BWV contracts bought in 1997 are 7 digits, but the first one is a 4, denoting BWV, the next 2 are zeros, and the last 4 are the actual contract number - 400xxxx.0 and 400xxxx.1. What does that mean in terms of number of contracts when we bought?
My guess is that your last 4 digits (after the 400) show your purchase # for BWV. If yours is 4001007 - you would be BWV purchaser #1007. If 4002475 you would be purchaser # 2475 at BWV. If 4000007 you would be BWV's seventh purchaser ... but I could be wrong too.
That’s what I thought - our BWV contracts are in the 2000s. But that would just indicate we were purchasers number 2xxx for BWV, not really give any indication of the total number of DVC purchasers, since there could be OKW purchasers number 2xxx too, right? I thought @BillPA was suggesting that the recently sold direct contracts could indicate how many DVC members there were.My guess is that your last 4 digits (after the 400) show your purchase # for BWV. If yours is 4001007 - you would be BWV purchaser #1007. If 4002475 you would be purchaser # 2475 at BWV. If 4000007 you would be BWV's seventh purchaser ... but I could be wrong too.
Based on my experience buying OKW in 1993 - any direct purchase made with that same Use Year would have the same Member number and the same base contract number - the digits are the decimal indicates the number of "direct" individual contracts you have purchased for that Use Year (regardless of the resort). Our original contracts were listed as 8XXX.0, 8XXX.1, 8XXX.2, etc. But at this time there may be purchasers with enough add-on contracts that they are using xxxx.000, xxxx.001, xxxx.012, etc.
If you also purchase(d) a resale with the same Use Year and titled exactly the same, I expect that the contract # would be based on the resale contract even though it is being added to a different Member # than the original purchase for that contract.
Again - these are my assumptions based on the direct and resale purchases I made between 1993 and 2000.
Our contract numbers are 8 digits before the decimal point and start with 16. We bought in about two years ago (December 2019).
I agree! Thanks.The contract numbers will show the number of direct purchase contracts sold at each resort - but NOT the total number of DVC Members.
Even if we know the number of contracts sold at each DVC resort since 1991, some members own different Use Years at multiple resorts so the adding up the known contracts at each resort would not indicate the true # of members as some of us own multiple resorts and multiple resales.
I'm not sure DVC even has a simple way to identify the number of members as many contracts have multiple members listed as owner as families have parents and children named as owners, others have partners named as owners, others are owned by Trusts, and others are owned by LLC/PC/ (and other sorts of corporations).
I doubt DVC even cares how many true individual owners they have as the permutations can be pretty convoluted after 30+ years of sales. Placing a number on that doesn't reveal anything about the success of the program but certainly provides an interesting discussion.
