I’m curious as to what you think caused the sudden decrease in trading power if it isn’t Disney. I’ve been a member of II since 2003 and something definitely changed this year.
A lot has changed this year on travel. And the last couple of years have all been out of the ordinary.
II does its best to make trading power a black box. It is not even easy to determine if you have lost trading power or if other circumstances have changed. To the extent you have truly lost trading power, here is what I believe to be most likely.
1) The resort you are trading is perceived by the II system as having less value than it did. (This could be based on geography, recent measures of the resort, or something else.)
2) The resorts you want to trade into are perceived by the II system as having greater value than they did previously. (Kind of the inverse of the factors above.)
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I still have not heard a theory of causation from your POV of how DVC entering II could have impacted your trading power. It seems what you are trading would have few connections to DVC inventory now being in II. It seems to me any change in trading power you have experienced is likely to have another cause.