Why do people keep responding as if I'm making an equity argument and am asking to be saved from a bad decision? I explicitly said more than once if they do not extend the banking deadline I will cancel the reservation in timely fashion and bank. I explicitly said I accept that I am likely to lose my already banked points from last year and consider that appropriate. I also never suggested they retroactively amend the banking deadline after it passes, so telling me I must accept the consequences of whatever I decide when the deadline comes is off the point. I agree. For at least the third time: If they don't extend I will cancel my reservation and bank before the deadline, and I think most people in the same position will do the same. That's explicitly part of my point.
I know the boards are filled with people making equitable and fairness arguments about
DVC. But my posts on this are free from words like fairness, justice, equity, gripe, or right and wrong. But people read my posts as if I am making that type of argument also. Is this really that unclear and hard to understand?
Let me try one last time: what I am making is a cold and rational (yet I admit possibly wrong) efficiency argument: asking people to guess our public health status 4 months out is counterproductive under the circumstances, and will leave DVC with an unusual number of cancelled reservations and empty rooms they are unlikely to fill if the health situation does improve, and an excessive number of points banked into 2021. As a result, it is in DVC's interest to extend the deadline prospectively. Maybe that's wrong. It involves predicting the future, which nobody does well. If you disagree with my analysis, I'm interested in hearing why. I think when restrictions lift people will be wary of travel and short on funds and not rushing to fill the rooms that are available from the reservations people like me cancel out of caution. I think people with existing reservations have sunk costs we don't want to lose like prepaid flights and if restrictions lift we are more likely to keep to a previously booked trip than are people potentially booking new trips. Maybe you think when restrictions lift there will be so much pent up demand that those people will book the newly available rooms and more than compensate for the cancellations. There may be other reasons I am not considering or holes in my logic I am mising. But fairness has nothing to do with it. Either I am right about how the balance of cancelled reservations and new reservations plays out, or I am wrong.
Finally and for the record: I am not blindsided. My situation is not unfair. I am being treated according to the terms of my contract and DVC bylaws. I do not expect to be saved from a bad gamble of not banking. That is an argument I not only never made, I never even hinted at, and I directly said I will do the opposite. I simply believe it is in the interest of DVC to extend the banking deadline. If I'm wrong, or if management does not agree and extend, so be it. That's just how it goes.
