At What Point Will You Stop Doing This?

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

No one has done a more intense study of availability than I have for SW FL in January. Almost every day since 1997, and recording since March, 2002.

I have also been fortunate to have access to confirm some hypotheses, including those you mention here.

Yes, there is less being deposited in SW FL during the Snowbird months, and, yes, something else is being done with it, either used by the owners, renting, or going unused (very little of it goes unused).

In my SW FL in January thread on a certain other TS forum, owners concur.

Being able to see less while searching doesn't necessarily mean fewer deposits being made (or being diverted to rentals as some feel) just that perhaps more of them are being matched up immediately.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Anything is possible.

As we all know, whatever the RCI Techies do is kept to themselves. It is not shared with other people, even Customer Service. That is exactly what the Supervisor I talked to said, which is a convenient excuse to nopt have to follow up.

In a trading power issue a few years back, the one in which I submitted the 59-page study to Customer Service, those in Customer Service could not get a response from the Techies. That happened to be at the time that RCI had just upgraded their site (remember the famed IAB?), so the Techies were busy.

Is it possible that RCI has developed a "block" system that blocks out a second week match in a resort or resort area (i.e. back to back weeks)? So you have 12/12 and you want 12/5 but you cannot get it because RCI has blocked that possibility? I have seen this trend over the past 2 years.