Except I do like to make the argument that price per point doesnn’t really seem to come in to play with dedicated rentals. Also, almost 75% of rentals never change in price once they appear, so last minute doesn’t seem to mean anything to the rental sites or most renters (if they actually have any say in the dedicated rental prices set.)
In the case of this room, the last minute prices all cluster around $300.
I think the ones that change do have more attentive owners. There may also be something about VDLH that keeps the prices a little higher.
I do see price per point still important in quite a few rentals, especially ones where the price seems really strange. So an oddball point rental will then come with a price of like $546 or something like that.
SUPER VERY NICE DEAL
2-night BC 1BR Villa start 2/12 for $368 or 52% under median
6-night SSR 2BR villa start 2/3 for $575/night or 20% under median.
4-night Poly studio start 9/1 for $364 or 30% under median.
Price Drops!
6-night Riviera 1BR start 2/7 was $1,040/night NOW $400. That is 57% under median.
If this price went any lower we’d have to dig a basement.
2-night AK Jambo 2BR Lock Off start 2/13, was $1,050 now $595 or 39% under median.
Looks like that Riviera one got snatched up real quick. I’m not surprised.
So did that Beach Club. Perfect dates to fall in line with MG break for me 
I missed it.
Someone I know in the Backside of Magic FB group picked up the BC 1BR! 
I was slacking today! I would have grabbed it. Too good to pass up.
Price Drop: 6-night BW 1BR villa start 8/7, originally $702, now $567 or 21% under median.
You don’t really see that many 1BR at Boardwalk rentals of this length show up on the dedicated listings - only 81 of them 6 nights or longer since May 2022.
If anyone can get down to Hilton Head for a check in today, you could book 2 sequential 1-nighter studios for a TOTAL of $180.
Price drop: 2-night SSR 1BR Preferred Villa start 1/31, originally $630/night, now $450 or 24% under median.
No DVCStore.com?
I actually have a note to myself to take a look and see if I could snarf their data too, just haven’t gotten around to it! 
1-night DL Hotel Duo Studio 1/31 for $170 or 67% under median.
4-night GF Studio start 6/8 for $410/night or 21% under median.
Well, now that you reminded me I had to do something about it at lunch. 
Proof of concept data pull done - now just need to write up some data scrubbing formulas, then a macro to run out and refresh/update and copy latest to the database.
Raw data looks like this on the query, btw:
And just as an FYI, they’re not perfect on updating that page. Over this past week they left one up there that had expired for a couple days. Not a big deal, and all these sites are prone to errors, but I figured I’d mention it.
Thanks!
On a related note, DVC-Rental is giving me fits lately - their listings run across multiple pages, each page maxes out at 150.
For a really long time it was less than 2 pages
Then they stopped cleaning out SOLD rentals and it ran to 3 pages.
Now they are doing it again and it keeps flip-flopping between 3 and 4 pages.
Also, over on David’s DVC site, I have to do an end run in the HTML to grab rental URLs because Excel can’t grab them directly. (Excel grabs the actual rental data fine, but the URLs are embedded in href code that apparently chokes Excel’s data query.)
My workaround is to scrape those values using Google Sheets (love IMPORTXML) and then import the Google sheet into Excel and then smash the rental data and links together. Good times.
Except the problem arises that Google sheets ImportXML is super wonky and will stop refreshing at random intervals, which results in a mismatch of the number of URLs to rentals. I built in some error checking so I can see when they don’t match before I start a run, but gosh darn it Google, fix yer data connections.
Going to have to retire early so I can keep up. 
Thanks for taking one for the team. I’m sure your family will understand.
