25,000 SkyMiles for $500 in SkyMall Purchases - ROUND 2 on the way SOON!
Nov 30, 2011, 12:19 pm
#91
Join Date: Dec 2009
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Nov 30, 2011, 12:40 pm
#93
Join Date: Oct 2008
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I have reason to believe a product that I am interested in has an "instant rebate" due to be discontinued on 12/3. Most retailers (Skymall excluded) are honoring this rebate and as a result have currently lowered the price. If the skymall offer goes live tomorrow, and if I place the order immediately and price match immediately, what do you think my chances are that they will honor the lower price? My concern is by the time they get around to researching it, the price will have most likely gone back up despite the fact that it was briefly available for a cheaper price at the time I made the purchase. I am just trying to figure out my options before things get crazy.
Last edited by Dvike; Nov 30, 2011 at 12:43 pm Reason: edited for clarification
Nov 30, 2011, 12:51 pm
#94
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 7
Link to SkyMiles Account
This may be a dumb question but how does skymall link to your skymiles account. I registered in preperation of this deal and expected to have to put my skymiles # in the profile somewhere. Or do you jump to skymall from delta's website while logged into your skymiles account. Thanks for your help. Just want to make sure I do things correctly. Got a European trip planned for next summer and could use the miles to top off my account.
Nov 30, 2011, 12:53 pm
#95
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 668
This may be a dumb question but how does skymall link to your skymiles account. I registered in preperation of this deal and expected to have to put my skymiles # in the profile somewhere. Or do you jump to skymall from delta's website while logged into your skymiles account. Thanks for your help. Just want to make sure I do things correctly. Got a European trip planned for next summer and could use the miles to top off my account.
Nov 30, 2011, 12:56 pm
#96
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 668
I have reason to believe a product that I am interested in has an "instant rebate" due to be discontinued on 12/3. Most retailers (Skymall excluded) are honoring this rebate and as a result have currently lowered the price. If the skymall offer goes live tomorrow, and if I place the order immediately and price match immediately, what do you think my chances are that they will honor the lower price? My concern is by the time they get around to researching it, the price will have most likely gone back up despite the fact that it was briefly available for a cheaper price at the time I made the purchase. I am just trying to figure out my options before things get crazy.
I would personally not bet on this working. You could try emailing Aaron and see what he says, but since price matching doesn't apply to promotional prices (including "instant rebates") I would think this won't work.
Nov 30, 2011, 12:58 pm
#97
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I'm not sure anyone here knows the answer, it would depend on how they do the price match process (i.e. if it takes them a while to get to it and they go to the website directly they might not see the lower price).
I would personally not bet on this working. You could try emailing Aaron and see what he says, but since price matching doesn't apply to promotional prices (including "instant rebates") I would think this won't work.
I would personally not bet on this working. You could try emailing Aaron and see what he says, but since price matching doesn't apply to promotional prices (including "instant rebates") I would think this won't work.
Nov 30, 2011, 1:05 pm
#98
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 96
I'm not sure anyone here knows the answer, it would depend on how they do the price match process (i.e. if it takes them a while to get to it and they go to the website directly they might not see the lower price).
I would personally not bet on this working. You could try emailing Aaron and see what he says, but since price matching doesn't apply to promotional prices (including "instant rebates") I would think this won't work.
I would personally not bet on this working. You could try emailing Aaron and see what he says, but since price matching doesn't apply to promotional prices (including "instant rebates") I would think this won't work.
Nov 30, 2011, 1:06 pm
#99
Join Date: May 2011
Posts: 668
Now that I think about this, I should have done a credit card churn a month or so ago when we first heard there would be a round 2, that way i could have gotten high minimum spend cards (like the AMEX SPG which I still don't have) and meet the minimum spend while earning skymiles at a low rate. Great way to get your spend on.
Oh well, maybe next time.
Oh well, maybe next time.
Nov 30, 2011, 1:09 pm
#100
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: US
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Posts: 105
Response from SkyMall customer service on price match
This is a response on my question regarding the price match on Canon T2i from Amazon from SkyMall:
Dear <My_Name>,
Thank you for contacting SkyMall. If within 30 days of receipt of your
order, you find the identical product advertised for a lower price, send
us the ad and we will promptly refund the difference. You can fax a
copy of the ad to: 1-800-986-6255, attention PRICE MATCH. You can
also e-mail us the URL for the ad at [email protected].
However, in our experience we highly recommend that you print the
ad and fax it in. You can also mail us a copy of the ad:
Attention Price Match,
SkyMall, Inc
P.O. Box 20367
Phoenix, Arizona 85036-0367
If you need further assistance, please contact us 1-800-759-6255.
Thank you,
SkyMall Customer Service
Hope that info helps some of you and know what to ask if you are contacting the SkyMall people.
I emailed them to: [email protected]
Dear <My_Name>,
Thank you for contacting SkyMall. If within 30 days of receipt of your
order, you find the identical product advertised for a lower price, send
us the ad and we will promptly refund the difference. You can fax a
copy of the ad to: 1-800-986-6255, attention PRICE MATCH. You can
also e-mail us the URL for the ad at [email protected].
However, in our experience we highly recommend that you print the
ad and fax it in. You can also mail us a copy of the ad:
Attention Price Match,
SkyMall, Inc
P.O. Box 20367
Phoenix, Arizona 85036-0367
If you need further assistance, please contact us 1-800-759-6255.
Thank you,
SkyMall Customer Service
Hope that info helps some of you and know what to ask if you are contacting the SkyMall people.
I emailed them to: [email protected]
Nov 30, 2011, 1:12 pm
#101
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This is a response on my question regarding the price match on Canon T2i from Amazon from SkyMall:
Dear <My_Name>,
Thank you for contacting SkyMall. If within 30 days of receipt of your
order, you find the identical product advertised for a lower price, send
us the ad and we will promptly refund the difference. You can fax a
copy of the ad to: 1-800-986-6255, attention PRICE MATCH. You can
also e-mail us the URL for the ad at [email protected].
However, in our experience we highly recommend that you print the
ad and fax it in. You can also mail us a copy of the ad:
Attention Price Match,
SkyMall, Inc
P.O. Box 20367
Phoenix, Arizona 85036-0367
If you need further assistance, please contact us 1-800-759-6255.
Thank you,
SkyMall Customer Service
Hope that info helps some of you and know what to ask if you are contacting the SkyMall people.
I emailed them to: [email protected]
Dear <My_Name>,
Thank you for contacting SkyMall. If within 30 days of receipt of your
order, you find the identical product advertised for a lower price, send
us the ad and we will promptly refund the difference. You can fax a
copy of the ad to: 1-800-986-6255, attention PRICE MATCH. You can
also e-mail us the URL for the ad at [email protected].
However, in our experience we highly recommend that you print the
ad and fax it in. You can also mail us a copy of the ad:
Attention Price Match,
SkyMall, Inc
P.O. Box 20367
Phoenix, Arizona 85036-0367
If you need further assistance, please contact us 1-800-759-6255.
Thank you,
SkyMall Customer Service
Hope that info helps some of you and know what to ask if you are contacting the SkyMall people.
I emailed them to: [email protected]
Also here is the info at the website:
http://www.skymall.com/shopping/pricepolicy.htm
Nov 30, 2011, 1:15 pm
#102
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 52
Wow... I'm definitely with dwfb11 on this one. I'm a total newb to the whole flyertalk and travel hacking thing, and was hoping there'd be even a little discussion of products that might be good purchases on skymall. I'm not even necessarily talking about things with good resale value, but just things that have broad appeal either for me or to give as a gift and are a decent enough price that they're not a total waste to buy through skymall. I was mostly going to just find things that I can use and that aren't way overpriced, but was honestly having a hard time getting to $500. The comments by people intending to hoard secret stuff to resell on ebay and what-not is a bit off-putting in general and makes me wonder if this is a community I even want to participate in. I'm sure most will think I should make sure the door doesn't hit me on my ..., but hey, my opinion's my opinion.
So anyway....
Anybody else in my situation that's found some things in the $100-200 range that might be worth adding to my order to get me over the top?
And in case anybody is thinking I'm a hypocrite looking for a one-way street, two of the items I was looking at are:
1) PetSafe Stay and Play Wireless Pet Fence ($349.99, same as at Petsmart and several other major retailers)... a quick eBay search tells me that this is a BAD option for those just looking to resell.
2) Mophie Juice Pack Powerstation ($79.99)... also not a good option for eBay resell.
ADDED by edit:
Thanks to everyone who has provided information about this promo! I'm enjoying almost all of the posts in the thread and really appreciate whatever tips have been given so far.
So anyway....
Anybody else in my situation that's found some things in the $100-200 range that might be worth adding to my order to get me over the top?
And in case anybody is thinking I'm a hypocrite looking for a one-way street, two of the items I was looking at are:
1) PetSafe Stay and Play Wireless Pet Fence ($349.99, same as at Petsmart and several other major retailers)... a quick eBay search tells me that this is a BAD option for those just looking to resell.
2) Mophie Juice Pack Powerstation ($79.99)... also not a good option for eBay resell.
ADDED by edit:
Thanks to everyone who has provided information about this promo! I'm enjoying almost all of the posts in the thread and really appreciate whatever tips have been given so far.
Nov 30, 2011, 2:31 pm
#105
Join Date: Sep 2000
Posts: 58
Price match to Amazon will NOT work according to SkyMall Policy
While I have seen some reports here of people putting through succesfull pricematches based on Amazon prices, the policy of Skymall, as told to me by reps over the phone (as recently as last night) and an email rejecting my pricematch request said that ebay and amazon are not valid sources for a pricematch.Here’s the email i got:
Subject: Re: price match order # xxxxxxxxx[InteractionID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Dear xxxxxxx,
SkyMall does not price match with auction website’ s such as, e-bay and amazon. The product you are looking to price match is through the amazon site, it won’t be eligible for a price match I do apologize for the inconvenience.
If you need further assistance, please contact us 1-800-759-6255.
Thank you,
[SkyMall]
YMMV
Subject: Re: price match order # xxxxxxxxx[InteractionID: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Dear xxxxxxx,
SkyMall does not price match with auction website’ s such as, e-bay and amazon. The product you are looking to price match is through the amazon site, it won’t be eligible for a price match I do apologize for the inconvenience.
If you need further assistance, please contact us 1-800-759-6255.
Thank you,
[SkyMall]
YMMV