Not a THING except for what people think. Most people would have grabbed the mini-van or 300. I dont care what everyone might have done , I do what I feel is best for me. Thusly someone will grab only a FC Up or only a $100 VDB, they dont care that craz or channa or entropy or perezoso is waiting to grab a $300 VDB and wouldnt budge for a nickel less. They feel its worth overnighting it or waiting 4 hrs for the next flight and are tickled pink to walk away with $100 or just FC.

Any Carrier will give up the least it can. So if CO sees that people are jumping at $100, then $100 will be the opening offer, no matter how DUMB we might feel it is. If on the other hand CO finds its flights are being delayed way too long due to the VDB amounts , it will decide which is more important to the company. If it finds since the offers arent allowed to go beyond say $250 that they are IDBing too many people and ticking off too many people they will in turn change things, maybe the VDB offers or the maybe the # of tkts they are willing to hence oversell a flight by.

Lets not forget capacity is down and passenger count is up. Yet most of us arent getting the Bumps or even hearing of those who got them , like we did say 2 yrs ago. This tells me CO has got their #s pretty down pat and arent overselling the flights the way they used to. So in the rare case where they blew it , they already know they can get away with a low offer. At the same time we are complaining more and more about EUA and no UPs coming thru even at the Gate, CO knows how many Plats didnt come back last yr, Id say most did. So if CO knows they got people addicted to them for whatever reason, it means CO doesnt have to worry so much.