I just had a strange one pop up. I've recently bought points from individual DVC owners for some of our visits to WDW. Kind of a way to stay deluxe for a better price and check out the rooms at the various DVC resorts.
Every transaction to date, the member would make the reservation and email it to me and the reservation would show the member who made the reservation with my name and whoever else was in my travel party's name as the people on the ressie. I could then take the reservation number and link it in my MDE profile.
So I decided on a last minute trip and bought 4 nights worth of points for SSR studio. Then I decided I wanted to fly in a day earlier and my member was out of points. Plus there was nothing available for a studio anywhere, all 1 bedrooms making the cost higher than the AP price for AKL, which had availability under the AP rate.
So I left a posting up on a board that I wanted to buy points for a Sunday night in May for a studio and was contacted through that board by a member who booked me a studio at SSR for that Sunday night .
When they emailed me the DVC reservation, I saw the booking had the DVC owners names as the party staying in the room instead of me and my travel partys name.
I had told them I had paid previous members two ways, one was cashier check by express mail, the other was through pay pal.
This DVC member told me to mail the check. So I got her mailing address and I asked them to forward me the reservation number from Disney that had my names as the travel guests. They replied they were more comfortable doing that after they received funds from me.
So we are talking $ 150 bucks. Is it difficult for them to take a reservation out of a guest name or something and that is why they want to wait for the funds from me? Because that is not how I did it in the past 3 transactions with other members. Could this member lose these points once they put them in my name and I don't pay or something? I am just trying to fathom why they have a better comfort level waiting for the money before they put my travel party's names on the reservation.
Sorry for the lengthy explanation in advance
Every transaction to date, the member would make the reservation and email it to me and the reservation would show the member who made the reservation with my name and whoever else was in my travel party's name as the people on the ressie. I could then take the reservation number and link it in my MDE profile.
So I decided on a last minute trip and bought 4 nights worth of points for SSR studio. Then I decided I wanted to fly in a day earlier and my member was out of points. Plus there was nothing available for a studio anywhere, all 1 bedrooms making the cost higher than the AP price for AKL, which had availability under the AP rate.
So I left a posting up on a board that I wanted to buy points for a Sunday night in May for a studio and was contacted through that board by a member who booked me a studio at SSR for that Sunday night .
When they emailed me the DVC reservation, I saw the booking had the DVC owners names as the party staying in the room instead of me and my travel partys name.
I had told them I had paid previous members two ways, one was cashier check by express mail, the other was through pay pal.
This DVC member told me to mail the check. So I got her mailing address and I asked them to forward me the reservation number from Disney that had my names as the travel guests. They replied they were more comfortable doing that after they received funds from me.
So we are talking $ 150 bucks. Is it difficult for them to take a reservation out of a guest name or something and that is why they want to wait for the funds from me? Because that is not how I did it in the past 3 transactions with other members. Could this member lose these points once they put them in my name and I don't pay or something? I am just trying to fathom why they have a better comfort level waiting for the money before they put my travel party's names on the reservation.
Sorry for the lengthy explanation in advance
