Ongoing Search Question

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

If my Annoying Search has found a match and I search online with the All Deposits option, will it tell me about the match???

Or do I have to actually open the search to see that?

[Luanne Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Luanne]

If a match has been found doesn't it move from Ongoing Searches to either Resorts on Hold or Confirmed, under Vacation Plans?

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

If a match has been found doesn't it move from Ongoing Searches to either Resorts on Hold or Confirmed, under Vacation Plans?

Yes, it moves to Resorts on Hold and then to Confirmed. So the week that you were using for the Ongoing Search isn't there to search against, which tips you off that there's a match on hold for you.

JLB, if you mean will you see that same match searching with a DIFFERENT week--no, you shouldn't see that match week while it's on hold or confirmed.

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

Also, when you open up RCI, there may be an alert at left after you log in, over where it greets you by name.

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

So the week that you were using for the Ongoing Search isn't there to search against, which tips you off that there's a match on hold for you.

Tips you off if you notice.

but I am assuming the answer to my orignal question is No, it will not tell me a match has been made if I do a manual search for the same thing.

I would have to open Vacation Plans, which is sorta what I thought.

Don'tcha think it should be the way I suggest, that a manual search for the same thing should prompt a notice that a match has been made, to prevent someone from inadvertently confirming a second one?

In a perfect world . . .

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

You are in RCI Website Fantasyland. Their website STINKS. I would be happy if it merely functioned correctly.

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

You are in RCI Website Fantasyland. Their website STINKS. I would be happy if it merely functioned correctly.

Huh? I can never smell it. What's it stink like?
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Another way I could have asked what I asked is . . . Is there a safeguard to prevent someone from confirming in a manual search the same thing an Annoying Search may have already confirmed, and they hadn't noticed?

Not exactly the same, but something for the same week.

[Luanne Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Luanne]

Huh? I can never smell it. What's it stink like?
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Another way I could have asked what I asked is . . . Is there a safeguard to prevent someone from confirming in a manual search the same thing an Annoying Search may have already confirmed, and they hadn't noticed?

Not exactly the same, but something for the same week.

I'm assuming you only have one ongoing search for a particular location. If that is matched, you no longer have that unit to search with. So, you'd need to start another search to manually match. Hopefully before you did that you would have checked Vacation Plans and seen that your ongoing match had already matched your request.

[bnoble Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close bnoble]

If you have an ongoing search for a specific list of resorts, a match is automatically confirmed. This removes the week from your "All Deposits" list. That would, hopefully, tip you off.

If you have an ongoing search for an area, a match is placed on hold, and must be subsequently confirmed or it will be thrown back. In this case, your week remains on the "All Deposits" list, with a notation in red like "Used to Hold a Vacation." That's a little less obvious, but you should notice it.

[Laurie Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Laurie]

Right, if it's still on hold it says this, with a link to the held vacation:

Deposit Used to Hold a Vacation
[View Held Vacation]

ETA: and when you mouse over the link, it shows you location and start date, so you don't have to even click the link or change screens to see what you have. Actually it's not a link, it's just a mouse-over.

At least this is what happens when you put something on hold manually.

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

Again, if a person is doing a manual search using the All Deposit method, and is not paying close attention, say because they are also driving, texting, eating a burger, shaving or applying makeup (or both ), reading the newspaper, and flipping off the driver behind them, would it be possible to confirm something for the same week that the Annoying Search has already found . . . or is there a safeguard to prevent that?

[Luanne Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Luanne]

Again, if a person is doing a manual search using the All Deposit method, and is not paying close attention, say because they are also driving, texting, eating a burger, shaving or applying makeup (or both ), reading the newspaper, and flipping off the driver behind them, would it be possible to confirm something for the same week that the Annoying Search has already found . . . or is there a sageguard to prevent that?

I guess I'm not understanding what you think you're going to be able to do. I'm also not sure what the All Deposit that you're talking about is.

Maybe if someone was [STRIKE]stupid[/STRIKE] unaware enough to try to do a trade with another week when they already have an ongoing search, it might be possible to get another confirmed week.

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

I guess I'm not understanding . . . I'm also not sure

yup

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

One more time:

If a person searches manually with the All Deposits option, as shown below, will the system prevent/warn/notify or in any way stop the person from confirming something for the same week that the Annoying Search has already confirmed?

(PS: yes, I can see the notation on the second deposit, that that is the one tied to the annoying search)

(PPSS: If you have not searched manually with the All Deposits option, it is exactly what the name implies; it shows you everything all your deposits can see. If you wanted to confirm something seen on an All Deposits search, it asks you to select the week you want to use.)


(PPPSSS: As you can tell by the numbers, there are weeks that lesser traders can see that better traders cannot.)


All Deposits [151,263]

X 01-Mar-2009 to 31-Mar-2012 [149,753] Available - Tied to Ongoing Search [View Criteria] Location: FSW2 | Start Date: 07-Jan-2012 .
Relation #: 00110 Unit: 208 Interval: 11 Max Occ/Priv: 4 / 2 Start Date: 13-Mar-2010

Y 01-Jul-2009 to 31-Jul-2012 [148,599] Available to Exchange
Relation #: 00108 Unit: 614 Interval: 28 Max Occ/Priv: 6 / 6 Start Date: 10-Jul-2010

Z 01-Jul-2009 to 31-Jul-2012 [140,322] Available to Exchange

[wackymother Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close wackymother]

No, it won't. We've listed all the ways RCI has in place for warning you that a week is on hold. Stop being snippy with us because you don't like the way RCI's website works.