To the best of my understanding the two bolded items above should now be resolved. I'm still not sure about the HK credit issue though - since I'm VIP it's harder to determine really. Updated mid-August feature release issue tracking list screenshots below for reference:
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As always - if we're missing any items - please post them in reply to this thread.
Tested the ARP using my resale Bali Hai and it would have let me book a stay. I didn't feel like paying the $19 for an RT, so I didn't go through with it.
To see if it reflected the proper resale FUY balance, I tested in SRP using my resale Bali Hai, for which I have 127K points next year. I looked at Bali Hai availability in April and could have booked a stay for up to 161,500 points by renting the remaining points, but for a stay requiring 185,500 points or higher "Something Unexpected" happens. I believe this is due to the limitation to the final day of booking for rental points in SRP, which would have been 41,500 (I was short 34,500 for the first case) or 45,500 (short 58,500 for the second case), so I believe this is working as it should - it also displayed the correct point availability for the first case. The system seemed to work properly in the ERP, but I couldn't really test it as I have a lot more EOYO points and couldn't find a stay expensive enough to challenge my resale ownership limit for renting resale points.
One potential Enhancement Request would be to return a specific error statement that "Rental points needed for this booking exceed the cost of the final night" rather than "Something unexpected just happened". This is something I should have expected, after all, but I shouldn't have had to waste a couple of minutes figuring out why I couldn't book that stay. IMHO, enhancing the system to return specific error statements would provide a better customer experience.
A second potential Enhancement Request would be to include both Resale and Developer Rental Points benefits in the Benefits Summary pages, including the FUY ones. The current system set up only shows the Rental Points benefit on the display for the CUY when it is selected and that benefit is listed in an amount that seems to match the developer point ownership total with no display of the corresponding resale point ownership.
I also note that the Rental Points benefit is improperly described in the member's directory on page 249 as a per reservation limit rather than an annual limit, which is strongly implied in the example provided there and demonstrated in the display similar to how the remaining annual benefits are displayed (xxx,xxx/xxx,xxx). I've copied the discussion from the directory below for reference. If they really want to limit annual rental points to the annual ownership allocation, they should edit the bulleted item to state that "Rental points in a Use Year are limited to your annual ownership allocation excluding points associated with Bonus and PIC contracts" and add a separate bulleted item for rentals in ERP stating that "When confirming an Express Reservation, 3 months or less prior to check-in, you may rent up to the amount needed for the stay." Based on the way it is implemented, I believe that their intent is to limit total rental point usage, including SRP and ERP stays, to the ownership allocation, but the guidelines they have in place don't really say that.
- When confirming an Express Reservation, 3 months or less prior to check-in, you may rent up to the amount of points you receive for your annual ownership allocation excluding points associated with Bonus and PIC contracts.
EXAMPLE: If you receive 154,000 points each Use Year, you may rent up to 154,000 points each calendar year.