tjkraz - I don't think it's necessarily that everyone believes that *they* will always get what they want calling day-by-day at 9am.
I think the meat of the matter, to me at least, is that the choice is now totally out of my hands. I could make the choice to call and *try* to fill all my dates day-by-day if I chose to. If I called at 9am and I got a slow CM or more people in front of me in the queue, that's the breaks. I did what *I* could to book my reservation.
This new policy takes that control out of a member's hands. You now have people booking a week in advance of your check in date...and there's nothing you can do about it.
That * possibility* of those circumstances happening, a realistic one in some situations that we've all already discussed, is where the problem lies.
I agree that for non busy times, not CL, no GVs, etc., this policy will likely be embraced in most situations. But for the others...it's just become very sticky compared to the previous policy.
I know that sometimes we all need to chew on new things and let them work themselves out, but we have had no official communication from DVC. That, too, is probably fuelling the speculation as well and could have been avoided if they were on top of communicating with the membership better.
I think the meat of the matter, to me at least, is that the choice is now totally out of my hands. I could make the choice to call and *try* to fill all my dates day-by-day if I chose to. If I called at 9am and I got a slow CM or more people in front of me in the queue, that's the breaks. I did what *I* could to book my reservation.
This new policy takes that control out of a member's hands. You now have people booking a week in advance of your check in date...and there's nothing you can do about it.
That * possibility* of those circumstances happening, a realistic one in some situations that we've all already discussed, is where the problem lies.
I agree that for non busy times, not CL, no GVs, etc., this policy will likely be embraced in most situations. But for the others...it's just become very sticky compared to the previous policy.
I know that sometimes we all need to chew on new things and let them work themselves out, but we have had no official communication from DVC. That, too, is probably fuelling the speculation as well and could have been avoided if they were on top of communicating with the membership better.