This definitely is coloring your opinion of off-site being as good as on-site. For someone who flies in and doesn't rent a car, Disney's convenient, easy, free, and near-constant transportation is important, and definitely worth more than saving a few hundred bucks to stay offsite.
Even as DME was fading away (we found a reliable airport transportation in the Transportation board sponsor, especially one that didn't have us sitting for 3 hours at MCO waiting for our flight), I kept looking into car rentals and decided - I really like not having to drive anywhere. The buses are the least interesting forms of transportation, but my kids consider all the others to be fun rides. Just getting to the park is part of the fun. (Also allows the grownups to have a drink or two at dinner without neogtiating who is going to drive. We are lightweights.)
If Disney just ROFR'ed two BLT contracts at $120, you'd be silly to offer $120 for a contract. So there's the new floor.
.... If DVD stepped in in the last month to take contracts in the $120s, that is going to impact it going lower than that if they decide to take contracts at those prices.
The thing about ROFR is it only acts as a deterrent for those who are following the prices, and as we used to say when I was buying resale contracts, "they can't take them all". Some buyers were more persistent than I was, and kept sending to ROFR at the same low PPP. I could have maybe gotten $2-5 pp less than what I bought our first BLT contract for. It was 160 points, so it was not worth the hassle for me, since the price we settled on was already lower than some that were being taken. I took the ROFR'd price per point as guidance, not a floor. Others did as well, and eventually we all made it through or decided to adjust the offer up a couple dollars. But I will add that once we had 1 contract under our belts, I was shameless about making lowball offers. We had points we were using to plan our next trip, so there was not immediate pressure to get the next set of points.
Yes, I realize that, I got my $95 SSR off a listing of $110. With that said, the board sponsor listings all say “full cash price offers only,” so I haven’t bothered. Maybe I should try I guess.
re shameless, above - I have had conversations with agents of the board sponsor where I made a lowball offer on a contract to have them say it was not realistic, they weren't bringing it to the seller, etc. Ok. Shrug. Go back to looking for another listing and a seller. I might not lowball a "full cash price offer" listing but then again I might - if it's been on the market for a while, the seller may have changed their view. OTOH, a seller may be in a position where they need cash to close and they cannot go below a certain # otherwise they won't be able to close. So the "why" of a "full cash price offer" listing may matter too.
(I will add that I've also bought a contract listed by the board sponsor and the price was much lower than they wanted, and the agent told me "that will never make it through ROFR" but they brought it to the seller and it was accepted, and it passed ROFR. At that point, though, the seller might even hope it gets ROFR'ed, because it's a faster process.) So I think it depends on the seller and their motivation.
so how many times can you really ride the same rides
CLEARLY WE HAVE NOT DONE THE PARKS TOGETHER BECAUSE MY CHILDREN WOULD SAY, "HOLD MY DOLE WHIP."
Luckily my oldest one can ride things alone if need be. I had to stop riding Everest one day after 3x in a row. We have yet to reach our limit on BTMRR.