kboo
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 10, 2014
I get that people buy direct on here, but there is no way I could justify it. I just had an offer accepted at AKL for $100 per point. If I went through Disney, I would have had to pay $186 per point. In the case of my 160 point contract, that's an extra $13,760! I can absolutely wait for 30 extra days of hassle, after all, in a few months I will have forgotten all about the trouble. And the direct benefits are just of little value to me.
I think for most of the sold out resorts, it makes little sense to buy direct unless you're buying <100 points. But for a 50-point contract, for example, the price differential is going to be less. Say it's $60pp - you'd "save" $3000 on a 50 point contract but you might get a stripped contract and have to wait through ROFR AND have to try to match UY (and still be restricted). For some people, that might not be worth it. But I agree, the more points you're buying at a sold-out resort, the less $ sense it makes to buy direct.