For us, DVC was a luxury purchase. Considered it a sunk cost from the beginning. Wouldn't have bought if I thought we would ever need to get money out of it by selling.
I think this was my fatal flaw in buying in. I read the posts that people like Dean would repeatedly throw up about luxury purchases, I parroted the lines about how this shouldn’t be financed because it’s a risk, I intellectualized that a timeshare should be considered a sunk cost, etc., but if I were being honest with myself? Yeah, I had a resale exit strategy in the back of my mind.
I think those who truly understood the product they bought into and all the rights you sign away in so doing (no, those weren’t hypotheticals you were agreeing to - Mumof4mice has a great post spelling some of this out), those owners are much more at peace with a lot of the restrictions.
For me, this is a bit of a growing period... growing pains and all. I’ll say this though, as an owner who continues to own after these latest restrictions, re-allocations, and discussions around corporate greed; for the first time, I’m going to own all of it.
So when Disney comes out with the exchange charts that show our grandfathered exchange into the new DVCs have essentially become the new
DCL exchange where the value just isn’t there, I will not be among those who lament how DVC has changed and have devalued our timeshare ownership. Or that they “don’t care about the membership.” I know they don’t, and I’m starting to come to terms with that.
It’s exhausting feeling like you’re in an abusive relationship with your timeshare. So if I decide to stay, I’m owning that decision.