I truly dislike the new system. I agree with every complaint about the new system. What I do not agree with is when some owners complain about high point owners taking all the good reservations and renting them. When I bought my Wyndham contracts and upgraded to larger contracts I was guaranteed the options of booking and renting my units. That is why I acquired more points and more contracts to get to a different level. The cancel/rebook for discounted points was something the sales weasels raved about. The upgrade features also. By me using these promised benefits to my advantage, why do some owners believe that is gaming the system and caused a total redo of the reservation system. That is just silly.
All owners of the same level had the same chance to get reservations. Sometimes you had to be awake much earlier then you wished and risk losing your job because you were checking the website every few minutes at work
I finally retired so I no longer have that problem. So now I have more time to build my small rental business and WHAM new website that totally sucks. Owners that rent work at it. Not everyone is a mega renter.
Sometimes I fear it comes down to jealousy of what some think others are getting that they are not. For every point owned there is a fee to pay. For every contract owned there is a different resort fee to pay. This is the system. To fault others for using what is available to them and what they paid for is very wrong IMO.
Yes owners could stop paying their fees, but the problem there is you won't be able to use the points you already paid for on top of your contract purchase. I may consider doing that at some point if I continue to not be able to find reservations to fill the requests I have for rentals as I don't need all those points for my personal use.
Some owners have been long time members of TUG and have been very helpful through the years to myself and others. Very generous with their advice. Some owners are newer and seem to be somewhat more concerned with sentence structure and spelling or wording with considerable corrections. Maybe it isn't even the members are new maybe it is because people don't really know each other on the boards and all is hidden.
Thank you for the opportunity to express how I feel and learn for others about things that there is no where else to learn them.
BTW Wyndham does monitor this board as some have discussed. As after my last post I received a message for Wyndham that they are aware of my concern that has been posted on public forums about the new website. Big brother IS reading.