Gosh, I wish I could!!!
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Testing out a new mobile version of the search - trying to jam all the relevant info into a smaller space, but if you click on a listing it will pop open a new box with additional info and the link to open.
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Ooh I like it!
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1-night FW Cabin 01/20 orig $368/night now $320/n or 23% under median
4-night BC Studio 09/10 for $377/night or 6% under median
Beach Club analysis:
I’ve said before with Sept listings for SSR and OKW that we’ll likely see more of the same lower priced listings as we get closer to that month, so if you’re not jazzed about booking a nonrefundable rental this far out, waiting could be a good play.
That advice mostly does NOT work for Beach Club - and even MORE MOSTLY NOT works when you are talking about longer multi-nights like this one. Also: the majority of lower BC studios appear at 11 and 7 months and are booked relatively quickly.
While there may be a small number of lower priced listings for BC studios in Sept - most under medians for BC bunch in this mid to high $300s range (which is the 6% under median in the month of Sept.) Not much of a deviation on the under median side for BC.
Also, I included two Price by Days Out charts for this listing below - one that shows history for 2-nights or longer and another for 4-nights. The number of listings between the two drops by about 30% for the longer rental, making the odds even more against seeing a better deal later.
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2-night Poly Studio 01/15 for $370/night or 21% under median
That is an absolute win, if I wanted to go in January: would not wait, would not pass Go.
4-night BLT Studio 09/14 for $299/night or 23% under
That is more win, super price any date.
5-night GF Studio 09/20 for $416/night or 9% under
This is another case of we’ll probably see more GF listings for Sept as time goes on, and some will be lower if you wanted to wait. BUT: 5-nighters are rarer and if history is any indicator, they will likely stop appearing below median about 50 or 60 days from now.
Here’s the Price by Days Out for 2-nights or longer:
vs 5-nights or longer:
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Seer isn’t seeing this morning @JJT
(site’s down)
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Thanks for the heads up!
It is up for me right now.
Sometimes my hosting company decides to restart servers without notifying anyone, could have been one of those.
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Will try again 
Realizing it’s got a long load time and that was my issue. I saw a blank page come up and didn’t realize it was still thinking!
Sorry 'bout that!
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I kept the page simple so far to try to keep load times down, but I think the plug-in that does the work is loading a ton of data in the background and it is annoying me.
I’m going to do some digging into settings to see how I can minimize that time.
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It could be on my end, too. Don’t make yourself crazy over it! It’s such a great tool - thank you!!
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1-night Poly Studio (Duo) 11/29 for $312/night or 36% under median
Not a huge number of Poly Duos in the data for Nov, most are 1-nighters and this one wins the lowest price recorded.
An interesting comparison now that my data is using medians crunched using historical data from the same month, as opposed to the previous method where it used all listings for the same room:
When double checking that my automagic imports were working and testing out some searches, I just noticed this $484/n Poly studio end of Nov is down as 17% under median.
My first reaction was, “hmm, that is a pretty high number to be that much below median.”
You can see when looking at the charts for that month - yep, 17% under looks correct.
Compare that to the same $484 line as shown for the month of Sept chart! Sept is definitely one of the lower priced months overall, mostly due to the combo of it being a lower points price time and school year just kicking in for the non-South states.
This “new” month by month median definitely a better indicator of how good a price is in context.
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PRICE DROP
4-night VB Studio 12/09 orig $285/night now $171/n or 35% under median
Oddly enough, there have only been 5 VB listings in December since 2023 - normally I would say don’t necessarily trust the median when you don’t have a lot of data points, but I’m thinking $171 is pretty good any day.
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2-night GF Studio 01/03 for $426/night or 10% under median
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4-night OKW Studio 01/11 for $200/night or 21% under median
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| Two identical Dec listings this afternoon are… |  |
5-night Poly Studio 12/18 for $323/night or 45% under median
5-night Poly Studio 12/18 for $323/night or 45% under
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This is a rareish room on rentals and super great price!
1-night BR 1 Bedroom 01/15 for $360/night or 47% under median
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Since my data tables plugin doesn’t allow formulas for filters and I haven’t figured out a workaround I like to make the Price vs Median filter more obvious, I am trying out just changing that filter field to a slider and modified the filter description.
(Annoyingly: If you use more characters than the width of the filter boxes, it doesn’t wrap the text, it just truncates it on the screen. Hopefully this new description will make it slightly clearer to newer users what that filter is for.)
The slider is set to show the max and min amounts in the current data - will show an 
symbol on the high end but not the low end. 
In the example below, the filter is set to show only listings that between 74% under median and 5% under median. (That 74% under is now a past deal I haven’t pruned out yet - an Aulani listing that kept dropping.)
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Another Price Drop on this one!
4-night VB Studio 12/09 orig $285/night now $143/n or 46% under median
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DVCSeer Search Engine Update
These last two weeks were super busy, but I put in some butt on sofa time at the end of the days to transform old data scraping scripts that were held together by Excel web connections, duct tape and feathers into new ones that should be much more resilient and quicker to run.
(In particular, my original method of grabbing David’s listings would randomly mismatch URLs with the wrong listing - it was bizarre and infuriating and I never figured out the cause because it was so intermittent.)
The outcome of my new scripts is they are easier to schedule and import into my data crunching sheets.
For now, if everything goes as planned you should see the latest data in the search engine about 10 minutes past every other hour.
The sites don’t actually post tons of new listings all day long every day, so I likely won’t keep the update timing that aggressive over the long term - but I want to see how resilient my new systems work. I’ll take a look at how things look later and might just go back to having it update the usual 3 or 4 times a day.
ETA: Looks like it is working well - and I realized I don’t want to deal with a ton more data, so I’ve backed off the updates to every 2 hours between the hours of 8AM and 8PM.
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Nice. What are you using to automate running of the scripts?
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I’ve used the basic Splinterware System Scheduler app for many years after I found the built in Windows task scheduler was weirdly inconsistent with some scripts I need to run for work.
Pro version does some extra stuff, but I’ve found the free version is pretty great for what I need and solidly consistent.
I broke each site into its own script now so I can disable any of them individually in the scheduler if one site goes down. I’ve set each to run each in succession, then fire off the Excel sheet to import the data files, crunch medians, and output to the shared file I have wpdatatables pulling from.
I’m actually super surprised how quickly that data gets pulled once the shared file is updated.
But, I’m not happy with the speed of the initial page load even with my intentionally super simple search page now. Not sure if that is a WP/Elementor issue or related to the source data being out in the cloud as a csv. I think I’m going to have to test setting up a local manual wpdatatable table in my WP database and try automating imports there to see how much faster initial page loads are than hitting the csv.
Most of my site scripts are just grabbing raw html into a local file followed by a python script yanking the data out into a standard format for my Excel sheet to access. Used to take Excel connections many seconds to initiate and update, new method is 2 seconds at best so Yay technology.
For DVC-Rental and VCL with their different tables I had to resort to scripting an automated Chrome that loads those pages, then pages down to the end and grabs/yanks. 
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