A new thing with my RCI banked weeks

[Ann-Marie Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ann-Marie]

I have always banked my Summit weeks, 1 upper and 1 lower unit at the same time. I have 2 of each for a total of 4 units. My upper and lower have always shown the same amount of available units no matter if it was the upper or lower, and no matter what unit number it is. For my 2010 weeks, I banked 1 of my lower in 2/2009. It is showing 135,000 units available. Monday I banked the upper, and it is showing 141,000 units available. They are the same units, except the lower (135,000) is a partial kitchen, and the upper (141,000) is a full kitchen. Doesn't it seem odd that the units used to trade equally, and that the most recent one banked has 5,000 more available units. I have been keeping an eye out for a trade that is probably not very hard to get. My unit that has been searching since February can not pull what I want, but the unit I just deposited this week can pull it. I guess now RCI has changed the trading power of my units based on kitchen size alone.

[Nancy Platinum Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close Nancy]

Not saying whether RCI is right or wrong, but if I was trading in, I'd want the full kitchen over the partial kitchen.

Nancy

[Ann-Marie Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ann-Marie]

So I decided to take the week at this resort. But out of curiosity, I tried looking for all available units through the search on the bottom of the RCI page. This particular week did not come up, while other available weeks did appear. But when I did the search on the left side of the page, narrowing it down to location, date etc., I was able to pull the week I wanted.

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

Doesn't it seem odd that the units used to trade equally...(but no longer do)

During the Recent Unpleasantness, there was a significant refinement of trading power---many deposits that used to be identical no longer are.

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

So I decided to take the week at this resort. But out of curiosity, I tried looking for all available units through the search on the bottom of the RCI page. This particular week did not come up, while other available weeks did appear. But when I did the search on the left side of the page, narrowing it down to location, date etc., I was able to pull the week I wanted.

So you are saying that HOW you searched with a specific week gave you different results??

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

I would hardly call it a ''refinement''. Given the fact that while some of the results make sense, many more are totally illogical. Some on the SA board report that RCI says they are still working on it. Maybe they will eventually get it right some time. They will give it another go this weekend, most likely.

[Ann-Marie Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ann-Marie]

So you are saying that HOW you searched with a specific week gave you different results??

YES!! One way did not give me what I wanted, and the other did. Interesting, isn't it!

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

YES!! One way did not give me what I wanted, and the other did. Interesting, isn't it!

Quite. Just goes to show that things aren't right even yet.

I always use the left hand side to refine what I'm seeing though so I don't think I'm missing much.

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

I would hardly call it a ''refinement''.

Sorry, I'm not using "refinement" in the sense of "better". I'm using it in the sense of "more fine-grained". It's like measuring in feet and inches rather than only in feet.

There may still be some glitches, but based on what I can tell from the weeks I can search, it feels like they're done with all of those.

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

So I decided to take the week at this resort. But out of curiosity, I tried looking for all available units through the search on the bottom of the RCI page. This particular week did not come up, while other available weeks did appear. But when I did the search on the left side of the page, narrowing it down to location, date etc., I was able to pull the week I wanted.

Could you be more specific on how you did this. Perhaps the "keyword" you used was not in the description of the resort you were looking for. The descriptions can be pretty arbitrary.

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

YES!! One way did not give me what I wanted, and the other did. Interesting, isn't it!

Very imteresting! I've been searching using the type in the town name approach (fast and easy) but now I guess I'll re-search using the left hand choices as well. A PIA to do but I'll do it to get the exchanges I want!

Thanks for sharing this bizzare twist

[Ann-Marie Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ann-Marie]

I used the key word as the name of the resort, which is outside of Atlanta. I think Petit Villas. I would have to check my RCI account since I am on vacation on HHI at the moment. I'm so happy right now. It is warm and sunny, not like back east at home. Give me 2 days of severe heat, and my brain will be fried!

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

It is still happening.

I went into USA and clicked on July2009 to post the LMs this morning. When I went into the individual state 2 really nice Ocean City MD resorts came up in July 2009 but they weren't on the original overview glance...

SNAFU.

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

Were they real, or phantom?

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

Were they real, or phantom?

They were real and it's happening all over the place! Makes searching very tedious as I have to microsearch.

Another odd thing is the left hand drop down will show me 5 units available in say July 2009 but when I click I'll get a totally different number...