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Oh, there's definitely some dart-throwing and wheel-spinning involved in most of onPeak's decisions.
Is there? I suspect it's not 'dart-throwing' at all, but a stated policy/formula to determine who gets what rooms. The thing is, we don't know what variables are a part of that formula other than 'form access time'. And they don't want to tell us, because if we knew, we'd all cater our requests to that formula to maximize our chances, and then it would mean nothing.
I actually don't think that has anything to do with the QueueID. I think - and this is mostly just speculation - that the links when you hover over them are unique due basically to how whatever they're using to send mass e-mails codes links (I'm not technical enough to use the right verbiage). I know last year there was a lot of question about whether some other e-mail they sent out was "fraudulent"/phishing because when you hovered your mouse over it, the link was different similar to this one, and we had to get it confirmed that CCI had actually sent it.The QueueID is basically generated in each browser - but you could absolutely open up that link in multiple browsers and have different QueueIDs.Anyway, that's my take. I may be totally wrong!
WoW [member=1431]NeedaRoomPlease[/member] why are you angry with folks on the forum? blasting [member=4270]mark[/member] for telling you what he's planing on doing.
WoW [member=1431]NeedaRoomPlease[/member] THEN make unfounded accusations against OnPeak saying they deliberate have clueless CS people so they can lie to you.
WoW [member=1431]NeedaRoomPlease[/member] All of that is followed up with bringing up behavior from 3 years ago when the unofficial blog was under entirely different management? I may not agree with every thing the current editor in chief, Kerry aka [member=550]lawboysam[/member] has to say but she get the information out to folks - we would not know half the stuff we do thanks to Kerry.
May i remind you of the rules of the forum? Please consider this a warning
All we can do is speculate for this year until May 1st. Then we'll know if 9:04's got better rooms than 9:01's. Until then.... let's all have a gin & tonic and cheers to SDCC 2017. Which will no doubt be spectacular if we are in Mission Valley or the Gaslamp.
There are so many factors to consider. Last year, I got in quickly and was emboldened to ask for two single-person/1 bed rooms. My first choice was the Horton Grand, which wasn't one of the top five requested hotels. I got those two rooms. Would I have been as successful if I requested the Omni or the Hard Rock. Who knows. It isn't just about the time you submit, but the inventory of your top 6 hotels vs. what you are asking for at the time they get to your form.
One thing I've learned in my 12 years of going to SDCC is that you can never compare this year to the previous year. We'll see on May 1st.
I just really wish this special restaurant was one of those modern ones where you can sit at a counter by the open kitchen and watch how your food gets made...And while there does seem to be a (frustratingly incremental) year-over-year improvement, the fact remains that if they're committed to randomization, there is ABSOLUTELY no reason to have Hotelpocalypse. Either give everyone ample time to submit (like a week or so) and randomize after the fact, or randomize everyone, give them an appointment time, and let them book whatever they like best at that time.
For a live sale, the sale for Hamilton tickets they had here also used queue-it and made for an interesting comparison. There was a single queue, so the queue number that you saw was meaningful. They gave a time-left-in-queue estimate but that was pretty rough. What was really nice was you could enter an email address and you would get an email when you were a few minutes from being able to buy. There were still problems, there was nothing to prevent multiple sessions and the reservation system was just the theater's and not built for a lot of quick searching. Not to mention the sale took the better part of a day.