Originally Posted by Washout

I don't have time to go into great detail. but those arguments don't hold water. If they looked into smartpref as they've said they'd know how smartpref does things differently.

Live bidding...doesn't require multiple bid sheets as you get to see real time what you're holding.

Vacation touching. Many ways this can be handles. IE blind bidding. The system doesn't know you have vacation till after the lines is awarded. You select pairings that allow vacation touching and those drop off. Their are different options available that would be customized with work rules.

CDO...this was not part of the demo and is easily changed to conform to work rules.

Credit window... Again, custom work rules dictate what the window can be. Demo is just a generic and arbitrary number.

Open-time. Smartpref doesn't have to solve to 0 open time, thus the feared globalization becomes fairly moot. Again work rules.

Nearly every negative coming from the ASA side about smartpref either has been covered or debunked. I don't even know if i'd vote for either but nearly everything negative mentioned is covered under work rules which need to be negotiated.