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Post by Adelard of Bath on Jan 10, 2023 11:51:46 GMT -5
It's that time of year again, when I ask NOT what these dues can do for me, but what I can do for my dues!
More specifically, I always wonder...why the legal team made "The due date to make your Annual Dues payment in full is January 15th" but then followed up with "The deadline to pay your Annual Dues balance is February 14, 2023."
It makes no sense. Many of us pay after 1/15; I did last year. (Even though it makes me uncomfortable.) I was charged no fees, the member website says nothing about fees. Yet if you flip over the statement we were all mailed, it says "Any payments received after the Past Due date will be subject to late fees in the amount of blah blah blah" and proceeds to detail some stuff.
I just think it's really, really weird.
(Doobie, doobie doo...)
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Post by fuzzylogic on Jan 10, 2023 14:09:58 GMT -5
This is common. My house payment is due on the 1st. But it's late after the 10th. My insurance bills do the same thing. Utilities give tons of leeway.
It just has to do with saying it's due, then giving some amount of time to deliver if you were to attempt to pay on the due date. If you say it's due today and late if not paid today then you could argue there's no way you can pay it on the due date and also be on time. Say you're mailing a check. It could take a few days. So I think creating the gates is common lingo to make fees be enforceable.
So if you've paid after 1/15, have you pushed it till after 2/15? Supposedly they can cancel your rooms and charge fees right? Do they?
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Post by nickys on Jan 10, 2023 14:37:49 GMT -5
This is common. My house payment is due on the 1st. But it's late after the 10th. My insurance bills do the same thing. Utilities give tons of leeway. It just has to do with saying it's due, then giving some amount of time to deliver if you were to attempt to pay on the due date. If you say it's due today and late if not paid today then you could argue there's no way you can pay it on the due date and also be on time. Say you're mailing a check. It could take a few days. So I think creating the gates is common lingo to make fees be enforceable. So if you've paid after 1/15, have you pushed it till after 2/15? Supposedly they can cancel your rooms and charge fees right? Do they? Not immediately. We always leave it until after January pay day. And inevitably sometimes forget until too late. That happened one year when we did have a summer stay booked. We got an email letting us know we were late and I called in and paid over the phone. They even waived the late fee. We got a written letter about a week later letting us know too, with the late fee shown. When I logged in, our account was up to date and the fee reversed. At some point though they would likely freeze your membership and eventually cancel any upcoming reservations. |
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Post by WDWGoof on Jan 10, 2023 15:25:07 GMT -5
They are just giving a grace period. Officially per contract, January 15th but offering a grace period acknowledges life happens sometime. Probably cuts down on the amount of phone calls received with people pleading their case why it was paid late.
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