Thanks Ngaire for the clarification. It makes sense to me and does protect agents from poaching after the booking is made. People should inevitably do their shopping before booking and if life was perfect this wouldn't be necessary but this will certainly discourage such practice after a booking is made. Now that I understand why......I do applaud Regent for trying to protect their booking agents/reps and all of the time etc, they have invested in a client....rather then have it usurped by some other agent that is offering the client something more or perserved to be more.
Again I stess I am very, very happy with my 2008, 2009 bookings!
Pat