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RCI OGS. Will it match within 30 days of check-in if a unit becomes available ?

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I have had an ongoing search request with RCI for several months and we are now within 30 days of check-in. It is still listed as active and my question is will it still match if something becomes available? I could be mistaken but I thought I was told at some point that within a certain period of time before check-in that ongoing searches were basically inactive, and that you’d have to manually search from that point on. Thanks for the help.

Mark
 

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I'm thinking why wouldn't it since your OGS (first time I've used that) is still on?

Could it be that back in the day there was a timeframe when trading power was waived, known as the 14-day window, a point at which I switched to better resorts for just an extra exchange fee. What was it, $89? :rolleyes:

Got both The Lawaii Beach Resort and EVR at Poipu that way, and switched from Grand Caymen to a better Fort Myers beach resort when our air reservations fell through.

I've noticed that RCI still does that, in a manner, by reducing the faux points needed to get stuff, when they need to move stuff that has not gotten taken by renters or exchangers.

BTW, an age-old and meaningless-probably-argument, but over 20-some years I never found that an OGS (second time I've used that) could get us anything I couldn't get on my own with copious daily searching.

Ah, the old days!

:D
 
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Yes, it will match, at least for another two weeks. You cannot set up a search with the beginning date of the search less than 30 days away, but the search works if the date was set up ahead of time.
 

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As one who was taught to question authority, I took that as a challenge, so I tried to start an OGS (third time I've said that) to some place I know would not be available in the next 30 days, Rams Horn Village in Estes Park, and, it did not allow a Start Date until 30 days from now.

Not that I matter, but that seems strange, especially since you can reserve an EV or a LC (let me go look) . . . for seven days from now . . . and, it would make it impossible to switch to a better resort in the 14-day Window, any more, because you cannot see that any more.
 
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As one who was taught to question authority, I took that as a challenge, so I tried to start an OGS (third time I've said that) to some place I know would not be available in the next 30 days, Rams Horn Village in Estes Park, and, it did not allow a Start Date until 30 days from now.

Not that I matter, but that seems strange, especially since you can reserve an EV or a LC (let me go look) . . . for seven days from now . . . and, it would make it impossible to switch to a better resort in the 14-day Window, any more, because you cannot see that any more.
I believe that ongoing requests (OGS) have to have a 45 day advance notice as opposed to a 30 day.
 

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I believe that ongoing requests (OGS) have to have a 45 day advance notice as opposed to a 30 day.

In the test search I tried, I could start it in 30 days. That's what I meant when I said:

. . . it did not allow a Start Date until 30 days from now.

&, since I posted what I posted earlier today, one of my cousins, asked me to check EVs and LCs, and I could see something for 7 days from now, which I believe to be the minimum for those.

Wow!, having said that, I just checked to see the earliest you can see in an online search, and I can see stuff for June 24, just three days from now.

That's new to me. Live and learn.
 
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There is a window within which they do not match. I cannot remember whether it is 30 days, three weeks, or two weeks. But it is something like that. Years ago there was an option you could check that specified you would be willing to take a late-breaking match, but that option no longer exists.
 

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David W.
Hello and thank you for contacting RCI! My name is David and I will be assisting you today. How can I help?

2:27:37 PM
Me
If I start an ongoing search, is there a time before the check-in date that the search will stop?

2:28:15 PM
David W.
I can help you with that.

2:28:39 PM
The ongoing search will stop 14 days prior to the check-in date you're requesting.

2:28:49 PM
Me
Thank you.

2:29:01 PM
David W.
You’re welcome. Is there anything else I can help you with today?
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So, to the OP, Yes, but not within 14 days.
 
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I'm still learning RCI. If I put in an OGS with a wide date range (e.g. I have one now with earliest check in date in mid-June and latest check in date in late September next year), the OGS will stop 14 days prior to the latest check in date, right? So 14 days before the September date?
 

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yup

If you have questions, and want to hear from the horse's mouth, try feedback@rci.com.

Which reminds me, Jackie Sherrill once said to me, "Coach Majors sends his apologies," to which I answered, "I'd rather hear it from the other end of the horse."

Nuther day, nuther time.
 

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There ya go! I have gotten search matches within 30 days but had no idea 15 days could still match, so that is good to know. I usually have changed my plans by 30 days before.
 

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I recently found a week of interest to me that has a check in around 50 days. It did not match the free OGS set with my RCI HGVC account. I eventually booked the week using some TPUs but it was interesting to me that a free OGS would not match a week that was available within 50 days.

RCI also doesn't allow you to add dates within 60 days of check-in. Maybe they don't match dates in that timeframe for OGS as well?
 

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And they cancel your ogs within 30 days of check in now
 

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