As of today, you now need to accumulate 150 points bought direct from DVC to qualify for full membership and perks.
Effective June 3, 2021, to obtain a Disney Vacation Club Membership Card, Members must accumulate a total of at least 150 Vacation Points purchased directly from Disney Vacation Development, Inc.
Disney and Concierge Collection options are not available for ownership interests not purchased directly from Disney Vacation Development, Inc. after March 21, 2011, and, effective April 4, 2016, Members who have not purchased an ownership interest directly from Disney Vacation Development, Inc. will not have access to Membership Extras.
(Scroll down to bottom of page for “Important Information about Membership Extras” paragraph).
So the great debate out there is whether you can buy smaller amount as an existing owner, with the understanding that you will not get full benes.
What reads here is
I think I’m settled on 150 anyway if I go forth, but if I decided I wanted fewer some are saying I’m SOL while this reads that I could get fewer just without perks that I don’t care about anyway.
I currently hold 150 at OKW and as I have two offsprings am considering a second 150 point contract. Since resale is insane right now, the gap between resale and direct is minimal and when you consider that a direct contract is a 2057 expiry and they will match my current use year and load points almost immediately it almost only makes sense to go direct. Those three things are the ONLY reason I am considering direct right now. But if OKW increases (the way SS just did) before I’m ready, I’ll go back to looking at resale.
As far as I know the minimum for a direct purchase as a new owner is 100 points.
An existing member, whether they bought direct or resale can add on as few as 25 points at most resorts (hence the 24 maximum one time use points you can buy), but 50 at CCV and Riviera.
That’s how I understood it too, but in a few places I see people kind of stomping their feet and saying no you absolutely cannot buy anything less than 150.
I suppose I can just report back on my experience.
It kind of sounds like they want to prevent people buying, say, 100 pts via resale, and then 50 pts direct to obtain full membership benefits. Those resale points will not count toward full membership.
Right. That has been a thing for a while. Not since forever, but for a number of years now. Used to be that’s how you would get benes (of which there are none, currently by the way)
Except that, as I put in post #1, the limit of one-time use points is still 24. That used to be set because if you needed 25 they would sell you a new add-on contract. Now there’s a gap between the OTUP and the minimum add-on.