- Joined
- Feb 6, 2000
I will agree that those of us that purchased in the early years were made to feel quite special and somewhat privileged. When there were fewer members, they were marketing/putting on smiling faces more aggressively. There was almost always a special DVC gift when you visited your home resort...like a DVC photo album or other pretty nice Welcome Home gift. But common sense would say the sheer number of members today make such things impractical and almost impossible. Remember, back then DVC was new, and fighting the horrible reputation of other "timeshares." No one at Disney knew if the Disney timeshare would go over, or if OKW and VB would be the only two...in fact Vero hadn't even broken ground, when we purchased, and we were made aware that OKW (then called the Disney Vacation Club Resort) may be the only one ever built. They gave us free park passes (1/2 the capacity of the room) when we stayed there until 2000. Both Disney AND members were taking a risk back then.