It definately seems like someone or something has been on an active prowl for cancelled reservation. My guess it is mostly wyndham grabbing inventory for their massive promotions scheme, such as getaways, holiday weekends, some inventory shortages.
The economy is back, people are taking vacations again, so wyndham is back marketing full steam, look at them completing new construction, looking to add new resorts. The good times are in front of us, all the wyndham, worldmark and shell members are searching for rooms, discounts etc. more demand for each room, internally and corporately.
The new reality is cancel reebook, will become an adventure for those of us who try.
Some of the newer members do not remember you cancelled one day and waited until the next morning, calling like crazy to see if your room came back, you would be extremely lucky to get an upgrade. Then some big companies paid wyndham employees to "get their needed rooms" some got fired. The old members would remember that to login was a challenge, they had a limited number of slots to login long wait times.
What we have is better now than then, yes we all want it to be still better, but the cancel rebook works most of the time I am using my experience of 90% of the time. When we gamble some will win and some will lose, I smile when I move from a 1 bd dlx to a 3 br pres unit, just happened to me recently, the Presidential person is now upset about their vacation being ruined they are stuck in a 1 bed room unit so sorry if it was a tugger. It is easier to gamble on a 1 bed room everything is on the upside then.