I just looked at Kihei againi. This morning at 6:03 there were no units left for the 2 BR queen for 12/23 check-in. No surprise there. 2-4 units showed availability for 12/24&12/25. Three hours later no units show availability for those dates. Oly 1 unit is available for 12/26 and 5 or more are available for 12/27. So on 11/26, the units for 12/27 should go down by 1. But likely what will happen is that owners who had a waitlist game going will get a reservation off the wait list that will use up the other 12/27 units. It's becoming very predictable. I have watched this happen with all the 2 and 3 bedroom units for Kihei over the last week.
If worldmark only allowed waitlist requests at 11 months in advance, perhaps that would solve the issue. The owners abusing the system are taking advantage of dropping off a few dates at the end of a reservation which appears to kick in the ability of a waitlist request to use those days to begin a new reservation that uses up the dates 13 months plus one or two days. Cut off that workaround and the playing field should be more level.
It's not getting rid of a waitlist ability. Just disconnecting the waitlist from the reservation system. Everyone would have the same ability to make requests for the waitist at the same time.
Worldmark could also decrease the maximum number of reservation days below 30 for the top 5% of requested units. From what I have read, these problems have been going on for years. The other points systems seem to have figured it out. Worldmark really needs to figure something out because they are selling a faulty product if they know the issue exists and don't fix it.
If worldmark only allowed waitlist requests at 11 months in advance, perhaps that would solve the issue. The owners abusing the system are taking advantage of dropping off a few dates at the end of a reservation which appears to kick in the ability of a waitlist request to use those days to begin a new reservation that uses up the dates 13 months plus one or two days. Cut off that workaround and the playing field should be more level.
It's not getting rid of a waitlist ability. Just disconnecting the waitlist from the reservation system. Everyone would have the same ability to make requests for the waitist at the same time.
Worldmark could also decrease the maximum number of reservation days below 30 for the top 5% of requested units. From what I have read, these problems have been going on for years. The other points systems seem to have figured it out. Worldmark really needs to figure something out because they are selling a faulty product if they know the issue exists and don't fix it.