When you talk to DVC guides, the OKW extension is described as a wildly successful, $20,000,000 venture. However, on discussion boards, it is described as a "fiasco" and "ordeal."
What happened, exactly, and why would members have a different impression?
I know very little about the OKW extension, other than OKW owners were offered a chance to extend their deed expiration dates from 2042 to 2057 at a discounted rate of $15 a point.
I also don't know what the DVC Guides might have meant when they described it as a $20,000,000 venture.
However, I do know that OKW has about 7,678,935 total points. IF (and that is a pretty big IF) the Guides meant that the extension offer generated $20,000,000 in revenue, then about 1,333,333 points were extended at the price of $15 a point. That means that about 17.36% of OKW's total points were extended.
Absent any shred of corroborating evidence from other knowledgeable sources, I give this percentage virtually no probative weight in accessing the success or failure of the OKW extension project.
When I read about unscripted comments made by Guides, the first thing I think of is "Those who don't know talk, and those who do know, don't." DVC Guides are usually on a pretty short leash as to what they can say to the general public. Furthermore, DVD usually doesn't tell Guides much about what has happened in the past or, in more importantly, what may happen in the future.