Are they out yet? Has anything been announced?
I copied my post from the annual association meeting thread:
I was one of the last to ask a question. I commented that the notification of last year's point re-allocation was very late, only a few days before the opening of the 11 month window. And when would the 2011 point charts come out, and if there would be another re-allocation.
The non-answer I got was mostly why they re-allocated last year. She finally mentioned that they are currently 'evaluating' the 2011 point charts, and to keep checking the member website for them to be posted.
With that answer, I think another re-allocation is not at all unlikely.
I copied my post from the annual association meeting thread:
I was one of the last to ask a question. I commented that the notification of last year's point re-allocation was very late, only a few days before the opening of the 11 month window. And when would the 2011 point charts come out, and if there would be another re-allocation.
The non-answer I got was mostly why they re-allocated last year. She finally mentioned that they are currently 'evaluating' the 2011 point charts, and to keep checking the member website for them to be posted.
With that answer, I think another re-allocation is not at all unlikely.
I certainly understand the need for re-allocation from time to time, but the delayed release is very frustrating.
Agree that DVD borders on the malicious by delaying things like this. Last year was the worst demonstration of that I have ever seen. BLT members, who had bought relying on the 2009 chart and had yet to ever use their points, first learned in mid-January 2009 that the BLT price per point was raised and that the minimum add-on was raised to 100 points, and a week thereafter they learned the points had been reallocated, raising the need for many to do small add-ons that they obviously could no longer do. That combination of events was either incredibly stupid or extremely malicious and DVD refuses to admit it was incredibly stupid.
BLT was definately the worst for impact, but AKV Kidani wasn't much further behind. We bought in at AKV and our resort didn't open until after the reallocation announcement. So although we could have booked our resort for the few months left of 2009 after it opened, it left a sour taste in our mouth. We would have bought more points at the time (lesson learned) if we had any idea that the reallocation would have happened so soon. You'd think they would have built in the current 2010 allocation into both Kidani and BLT when they went on sale.
AKV was open prior to the points reallocation. It opened in 2007 with the Jambo House units.
Any news on the 2011 charts?
Historically, when do they usually come out? I was thinking it was before now but sometimes others memories are better then mine.
Historically, yes the points charts would be issued by now. However, last year 's issue of the 2010 point charts were delayed until late January. Those charts had major reallocations of points. There is lots of speculation that since the 2011 charts are delayed that another point reallocation will occur. Nothing to base this opinion on just a lot of worry. If you search the Mousecellaneous board you'll probably find some threads about the 2011 charts.
From DVC's perspective, I can see why they would want to wait as long as possible. They currently have at least some reservation data up through November 24, 2010. Every day that goes by is another day of information about 2010. By delaying until January, they can get data through most of 2010. Plus, every day they wait is another day to get more purchasing data on the resorts. I would think that points allocation is considerably more complicated in an environment where there are several million points in developer inventory to be sold as there are right now -- BLT, VGC, AKV, SSR -- than in prior years where there was less sales activity. Not to mention that the logorhytms they likely use for calculating optimal point spreading for partially declared resorts are surely complicated.
It's incredibly frustrating for us, but my guess is that there is someone in DVC whose basic attitude that so long as the charts come out before the first 11 month window opens (February 1, 2010), it's no big deal. I think that's a fairly unsophisticated view of how some of us manage our points into the future, but, nevertheless, I bet that's their view.
Doesn't the window actually open January 26th, for January 1st, 2011, given that we can reserve up to 7 nights? You could call January 26 and reserve December 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and January 1.