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Now also taking referral requests for 20-euro vouchers from Expedia.fr
PM me with e-mail address and mention that you want an Expedia.fr code and I'll be glad to get a 20-euro voucher over to that address. The e-mail address cannot have received any 20GBP vouchers from the UK promotion. It'll reject any of those as duplicates. It must be a fresh e-mail address (though those are not difficult to obtain).
20 euros is not worth as much as 20 pounds and the site is in French (though it doesn't seem hard to fake your way through). I haven't road-tested re-using a credit card on that site that was used on the UK site for a single GBP20/GBP40 voucher (if you could do that, then it would have some added value for bookings, but odds might well be against). Also need to look more to see if there's much difference with the hotel databases other than pricing in euros.
Am still also gladly doing 20GBP referrals for the UK site; PM me with e-mail address if you want a code on that. Unless you mention specifically that you want a 20 euro code on the .fr site I'll assume you want a 20GBP one for the UK site, as that's still more user-friendly for most people here.
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I'm willing to stay on some of the 20GBP bookings that'd be no-shows otherwise
To those of you looking at making no-show GBP20 bookings to collect GBP40 vouchers: first, you should be ashamed. Second, I'd be willing to remove the shame by staying on some GBP20 bookings rather than having them go no-show.
I have a monthlong trip to Asia coming up soon, and it looks like my favorite hotel in BKK is coming in at GBP15. Also have stints in other cities in SE Asia with quite a few hotels under the GBP20 mark.
So....as an alternative to doing no-show bookings, I'd be willing to be named as the traveler on some of the "dummy" GBP20 ones if we worked out date & hotel before booking. Would also need an e-mail confirmation to show at the desk. They'd take my credit card for incidentals.
I s'pose I could try booking the dates myself and burning off the vouchers I have, but it'd be very labor-intensive, so I'd be letting you refer you to get the GBP40 rather than having me referring me. You do a good deed and I save some work.
1x 40 GBP voucher?
or 1 for each referral?
and how long did they take to get posted??
i mixed up 3 referral and ended up with 4 x 40 voucher.
I am suspecting that the 4th voucher is due to the fact that i was test driving one of the credit card that i had used previously to see if i could use the same card but with different account. The system naturally rejected it. I repeated the entire booking process again with the same 20GBP voucher but with an entirely new credit card and it works. So this could be the reason why I got the extra 40 gbp voucher.
For sure i had the 20gbp voucher mixed up with the referral email address as once Raffles reported his issue earlier on, I check up on my own booking and realised that I had made the mistake. As such, I was not expecting the 40gbp voucher anymore, but to my pleasant surprise, they appeared in my inbox maybe a week later.
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Originally Posted by Raffles
How can there be a 'no show penalty' when you have already paid in full for your entire stay using the £20 voucher?! Expedia pays the hotel whatever.
I recently made a booking with a voucher + GBP5.50 as booking fee and overage (room rate was about GBP 3 more than the voucher).
Here's the language from the confirmation printout:
"Any changes to or cancellation of your reservation may result in fees from GBP 15 up to the full cost of your stay."
"Cancellations or changes made before 24:00 (Eastern Standard Time (U.S. & Canada)) on (four days before check-in day) are subject to a GBP 15 penalty"
"Cancellations or changes made after 24:00 (Eastern Standard Time...) on (four days before check in day) are subject to a 100% Cost of Stay Penalty."
So it's clear as mud.
Am sure they would claim the right to treat a no-show as a cancellation under the second condition. But then, what's 100% of the cost of stay? What you paid or the total of what they and you paid? Even if they tried to treat it under the first cancellation clause they'd be trying to charge a penalty that's almost three times what I paid.
I'm 90-95% sure nothing's going to happen if you have a no-show, and if you charged it to a virtual credit card number (like Citi offers) I would guess they wouldn't be able to collect if they tried charging it again for more.
OTOH, I think no-show bookings in the aggregate could be the biggest threat to having the whole promo neutered or pulled.
Of course there is no such thing. The "100 % penalty" means nothing more than you will lose 100 % of the price which you already payd
Indeed. It simply means that you don't get your money back if you cancel within four days, that is all. Before that, you get the price of your room minus £15 if you cancel. This clearly has no relevance if the cost of your room is £15 or less.
I have had it with the CSRs over there. 2nd voucher claimed already used, called, they booked room at full price then told me they would credit back card, of course they haven't. This company has some of the worst customer service on the planet. Hello? Chargeback? My money please.
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Originally Posted by redreeper
Are you trying to book under the same account more than once? It says you can...but I beleive you cannot.
Correct. Be sure to read the comments upthread. Even though you're supposed to be able to get multiple GBP40 referral vouchers, the same programming code that stops multiple GBP20 voucher use on the same account or with the same credit card is being applied to 40GBP vouchers as well. They don't seem to be in a big hurry to fix the bug there. So you need multiple accounts, credit card numbers and e-mails to do multiple bookings (clearing cookies and changing IPs between sessions also might be for good measure). They're really making you EARN it, as it can all be surprisingly labor intensive.
So, to summarize: one account + 1 e-mail address + 1 separate credit card number (that gets address-verified) = the chance to book one hotel on a GBP20 and one on a GBP40 voucher.
Calling is basically futile and not advised. As with bookings on airlines like Spirit or Allegiant, you do have to pay attention to make sure the total you expect to pay carries over to the final screen without getting modified.
