DG Affiliate message in email booking confirmation
Sep 23, 2013, 2:58 am
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: May 2009
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DG Affiliate message in email booking confirmation
Hi guys
Just wondering if anyone knows what the meaning of this message means...
Made a booking this morning through hilton website - normal adv. rate, and then checked the confirmation email. Under the usual HH #, arrival and dept times was another row:
"TA: DG AFFILIATE DO NOT PAY DIRECT"
No idea what this means, curious... Anyone?
Thanks
Just wondering if anyone knows what the meaning of this message means...
Made a booking this morning through hilton website - normal adv. rate, and then checked the confirmation email. Under the usual HH #, arrival and dept times was another row:
"TA: DG AFFILIATE DO NOT PAY DIRECT"
No idea what this means, curious... Anyone?
Thanks
Sep 24, 2013, 8:05 am
#2
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Edinburgh
Programs: Amex Plat UK, BA, Diamond HHonors
Posts: 195
Hey
This means that you booked via a link (or a cookie which ended up in your machine from a link) for a website.
Lots of sites (including FT) have banner ads all over them; you have clicked a link (could be text in an email too) from a specific affiliate provider which has taken you to the Hilton website. Basically, it means that someone has been paid commission on your booking.
You don't need to worry about it - it is used internally by Hilton to ensure everybody gets paid what they are due.
TravelFreakUK
This means that you booked via a link (or a cookie which ended up in your machine from a link) for a website.
Lots of sites (including FT) have banner ads all over them; you have clicked a link (could be text in an email too) from a specific affiliate provider which has taken you to the Hilton website. Basically, it means that someone has been paid commission on your booking.
You don't need to worry about it - it is used internally by Hilton to ensure everybody gets paid what they are due.
TravelFreakUK
Sep 25, 2013, 4:57 am
#3
Original Poster
Join Date: May 2009
Programs: VS Silver, Kris Silver, IC Amb, HH Gold, Hertz Gold
Posts: 386
Hey
This means that you booked via a link (or a cookie which ended up in your machine from a link) for a website.
Lots of sites (including FT) have banner ads all over them; you have clicked a link (could be text in an email too) from a specific affiliate provider which has taken you to the Hilton website. Basically, it means that someone has been paid commission on your booking.
You don't need to worry about it - it is used internally by Hilton to ensure everybody gets paid what they are due.
TravelFreakUK
This means that you booked via a link (or a cookie which ended up in your machine from a link) for a website.
Lots of sites (including FT) have banner ads all over them; you have clicked a link (could be text in an email too) from a specific affiliate provider which has taken you to the Hilton website. Basically, it means that someone has been paid commission on your booking.
You don't need to worry about it - it is used internally by Hilton to ensure everybody gets paid what they are due.
TravelFreakUK
Thanks!
Sep 25, 2013, 5:27 am
#4
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: LBA/FRA
Programs: BA Silver/HH Gold
Posts: 41
I've had this happen on UK bookings recently and haven't clicked through an affiliate link either (or not that I can remember anyway)... Did you use a discount code when you booked? It's happened when I have booked using PR11PN.
Sep 26, 2013, 2:30 am
#6
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Posts: 3,360
Out of curiosity, I looked at Hilton's affiliate program. Hilton's cookies are valid for 3 days. So, even if you type in the standard Hilton URL, the original linking site will get credit for sending a sale if it's within 3 days.
Mar 31, 2014, 5:11 am
#7
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Shanghai
Programs: BAEC (Gold), PC (Plat), HH (Gold), MR (Gold)
Posts: 2,729
Sorry to resurrect an old thread. I just had this happen to me too and wasn't sure why.
My question is whether this wording (or similar) appears on the final bill? I'm booking for work and don't want any suspicion of impropriety. I'd simply clicked on a banner link from another site. Could go back and re-book but I think that the rates for my stay may have gone up.
My question is whether this wording (or similar) appears on the final bill? I'm booking for work and don't want any suspicion of impropriety. I'd simply clicked on a banner link from another site. Could go back and re-book but I think that the rates for my stay may have gone up.
Apr 27, 2015, 8:59 pm
#10
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Location: SFO
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Posts: 74
I had the same thing happen on a stay in Spain. Hilton Honors is claiming that it means that I booked on a third party site and that it makes my stay ineligible for points and for a promotion that I need the stay to count for.
Obviously, I'm arguing this with them now.
Obviously, I'm arguing this with them now.
Apr 28, 2015, 1:41 am
#11
Join Date: Jan 2012
Programs: HH Diamond
Posts: 695
I have had numerous bookings through the hilton.com website where this "DG Affiliate" message came up. Why, I don't know. But stays, nights and points always posted for these stays, so I wasn't too concerned about that note in my bookings.