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Ron Shamert

Financial Advisor at Edward Jones; Disney Vacation Club member and frequent My DVC Points podcast guest

May 20, 2026

5:29
Am I too cynical? What do you guys think?
5:31
No, I, I don't think you're too cynica- s- too cynical at all, Chad.
5:35
I believe that member feedback, obviously I'm gonna give them a little bit of credit as well, that yeah, you know they do listen to the membership, but there's a lot of things that the members give feedback on thatThere is no action taken, right? So, so let's just call it what it is.
5:52
There's something, maybe this brought it to their attention and it triggered another hole that they jumped down, i.e., you know, what are we losing by members renting their points out more than they're using them, and then losing out on potentially some cash stays.
6:06
So yeah, I, I don't think that's out of the, uh, the realm of possibility either.
6:09
There's gonna be more than one factor, I think, that came into them giving a lot more clarity.
6:15
And like I said, there has been a policy for life, you know, s- ever since the inception of the club, but there is a lot more clarity to it, I think, right now the way it's defined, and I, and I'm appreciative of that.

12 MINS LATER

18:50
I'm glad they kept it into the definition of it because even as many points as, as I'm doing with banking and borrowing enough to come up with 14 grand to pay for this Alaskan cruise, I don't think I did 20 reservations in total there.

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