Originally Posted by
pinniped
Like an airline standby list, you could offer it up to any guest and the list could auto-sort by elite status. If a room gets dumped into inventory, the person at the top of the list gets an email or text and, say, two hours to accept or decline at the price point offered. If no acceptance, down the list it goes. If it's within a day of check-in, that 2 hours response time could scale right down to 15 minutes or whatever. Simple programming. Probably could be in beta in a matter of weeks.
Beta? LOL We are talking about the programming staff that brings us all the other wonderful enhancements at marriott.com. While a great idea in theory, surely you jest. BTW beta testing at Marriott, as best I can tell, means they just drop it into production.