With availability getting more and more scarce for those that book five or six months out, I'm beginning to get worried about some individuals that are consistently and repeatedly 'abusing' the rental system to make a large volume of profit off their DVC membership.
Now, have NO problems with people renting points to friends or family, or even someone placing a property for rent when they decide they can't "make their stay" three months before their trip.
But when people try to score a huge profit off a reservation they book that they have no intention of using themselves, then I have a concern and issue. IE -- "I just booked a 7 night stay at BLT theme park view 11 months from now. Please give me $30 a point!" Some people GET those reservations rented, and it simply reduces inventory for those of us looking for something closer to when we can actually book airfare and such. And the fact is, some of these people do this every year with every point they have in an effort to make a profit. They never had an intention of using their DVC membership to stay at Disney themselves.... or they bought hundreds (or thousands) of points simply to game the system for profit purposes. And the DVC rental sites obviously have no problems with this.
I'm not sure what Disney can do about it, but it really isn't fair to those that can't book at exactly 11 months every year out. Sigh. And yes, I DO consider the DIS "platinum rental plan" to encourage such just abuse.
Now, have NO problems with people renting points to friends or family, or even someone placing a property for rent when they decide they can't "make their stay" three months before their trip.
But when people try to score a huge profit off a reservation they book that they have no intention of using themselves, then I have a concern and issue. IE -- "I just booked a 7 night stay at BLT theme park view 11 months from now. Please give me $30 a point!" Some people GET those reservations rented, and it simply reduces inventory for those of us looking for something closer to when we can actually book airfare and such. And the fact is, some of these people do this every year with every point they have in an effort to make a profit. They never had an intention of using their DVC membership to stay at Disney themselves.... or they bought hundreds (or thousands) of points simply to game the system for profit purposes. And the DVC rental sites obviously have no problems with this.
I'm not sure what Disney can do about it, but it really isn't fair to those that can't book at exactly 11 months every year out. Sigh. And yes, I DO consider the DIS "platinum rental plan" to encourage such just abuse.
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