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Does a hit on ongoing search containing multiple resorts pause entire OGS until released? (RCI)

VAlegacy

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RCI through Wyndham portal.
Customer support couldn't help/didn't understand what I was asking.
I have an OGS containing ~20 resort ID's. If I get a hit on 1 of those resorts, will the other 19 resorts "pause" until the hit is released?
This seems to be the case but I have no way of confirming.
I will enter 20 individual searches if need be, but what a PITA.
 

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RCI through Wyndham portal.
Customer support couldn't help/didn't understand what I was asking.
I have an OGS containing ~20 resort ID's. If I get a hit on 1 of those resorts, will the other 19 resorts "pause" until the hit is released?
This seems to be the case but I have no way of confirming.
I will enter 20 individual searches if need be, but what a PITA.
Yes it pauses the others and if you confirm one it will cancel the other 19. You can enter 20 individual searches but they may make you pre pay 20 different exchange fees.
 

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Yes...and if there were multiple units available at that moment, it doesn't always take the "best". (I will get a "hit" for a 1 bedroom, and go that resort page and see 2 bedrooms also....)
 

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Yes it pauses the others and if you confirm one it will cancel the other 19. You can enter 20 individual searches but they may make you pre pay 20 different exchange fees.

Through Wyndham once you have paid the exchange fee on one OGS, RCI will see it as a credit on your account each time you set up a subsequent search and not charge it a second time - at least as of the last time I did it sometime last year. I've never done as many as 20, but I have set up a half dozen or so.
 

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Yes...and if there were multiple units available at that moment, it doesn't always take the "best". (I will get a "hit" for a 1 bedroom, and go that resort page and see 2 bedrooms also....)
Yes the same happened for coral sands in HH. Hit for a 1 bedroom and then saw a 3 BR on the available units tab.
Through Wyndham once you have paid the exchange fee on one OGS, RCI will see it as a credit on your account each time you set up a subsequent search and not charge it a second time - at least as of the last time I did it sometime last year. I've never done as many as 20, but I have set up a half dozen or so.
I havent had to pay any exchange fees even on the initial search. I assumed I paid that on confirmation.
I know its a bit of an odd situation to have so many, but seeing as I'm searching for MB/HH during peak summertime, I didn't want to miss any while considering a hit.
 

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That's the way of a used to work for non wyndham rci accounts but about a year ago they changed it- probably as a way to get you to upgrade to platinum where you don't pre-pay at all.
 

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It sure seems like it. I'm using Worldmark (Wyndham) and the most matches I've ever had at once was three, and that's rare. It's usually one. Even when I have only one match, I can sometimes go to the very same resort and see multiple other weeks available, but it only matched one.
 
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