2-3 days. Make sure your friend used the right email address, though - if they used a home one instead of the work one you used on the voucher (or vice versa) you're getting nothing!
Are these coupons ( 40 GBP) good only for one night stay discount?
Or does the discount apply let say for two consequent nights if one night is less than 20GBP? Thanks
OK, I just noticed that 4:30PM PDT is the exact point in time when the £40 voucher is being delivered to your Email. So, if you see nothing like that in your Email at that point you'll have to wait for another day to see your luck.
Besides my own observation, I still have a question about the per voucher redemption per account/CC restriction - I understand for each Expedia account/CC/Email, you cannot redeem more than one £40 voucher, nor can you redeem more than one £20 voucher. However, can you still redeem one £40 voucher AND one £20 voucher per account?
I understand to play safe you'd better just to get another account and credit card. Well, I was trying to test this. I have already successfully made a booking using a £40 voucher under my account #1, and now I am trying to make another booking still under this #1 account, but using a £20 voucher, and the £20 discount still shows on the "Rate Details" page, but I did not finish the checkout, and I wonder if this £20 discount will get through the checkout or will be kicked out at the final step due to my prior redemption of the £40 voucher. I have no real intention of make a booking so I cannot really finish the test, and I just wonder about the other people's actual experience.
I think you need to do the £20 voucher first, followed by the £40. If you try to do it the other way round I don't think it works (or at least it didn't for me).
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Are these coupons ( 40 GBP) good only for one night stay discount?
Or does the discount apply let say for two consequent nights if one night is less than 20GBP? Thanks
It can be used on bookings of more than one night, but if the per-night rate is less than GBP40, then the voucher will only deduct the rate for one night's stay, even if it's less than GBP40. Also, the booking fee is not absorbed, so even if the total with booking fee would be less than GBP40, it'll still charge the booking fee.
One person has reported success in calling and getting them to apply the full GBP40 to a multi-night booking, but calling in general is never advised and can have unpredictable and/or frustrating results.
You can use a GBP40 and a GBP20 from one account and with one credit card, in any sequence.
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I referred four ACTUAL friends who thought $32 off was a good deal. All four booked like 4 days ago and I still have no 40 quid. What gives?
Crediting lately has been exceedingly slow, as if they've called a halt to all or most automated credit and are putting a lot under manual review (just one theory, don't know for sure).
If you haven't already received a voucher at your e-mail, make sure that your spam filters will let it through. I noticed that one of 'em landed in my Spam folder on a Yahoo account early on. If you miss the e-mail with the code I don't think there's any other way to call it up online.
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Finally got 1 of 4. Yay! Ready for the rest as I have some Atlantic City to hit
Heck, who needs a GBP40 to stay in Atlantic City? Just go midweek and choose from the handful of places in Absecon near GBP20. Everyone knows that's where the quality lodging is.
Just back from a five night stay, each using a 40GBP voucher code at five different hotels. No problems whatsoever.
I am a bit concerned over Proactive's cancellations, but I have to wonder if a credit card name/reservation name mismatch wouldn't trigger a potential fraud alert anyway, perhaps causing a cancellation even if terms of the promotion didn't. But who knows.
However, correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't the Terms & Conditions been amended? I don't recall the following passage from earlier:
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3. You may not refer friends using a friend's email address for a temporary email service (including but not limited to any email address with the domain mailexpire.com). Referrals using temporary email service addresses will not be successful, and neither you nor the friend referred will receive vouchers.
Perhaps this accounts for the slow down in 40GBP voucher delivery, as they are taking time to check email addresses. I'm hoping this is actually a good sign, that Expedia is taking steps to curb the most extreme abuse of this program, rather than waiting for it to get so bad they just pull the plug.
I am a bit concerned over Proactive's cancellations, but I have to wonder if a credit card name/reservation name mismatch wouldn't trigger a potential fraud alert anyway, perhaps causing a cancellation even if terms of the promotion didn't. But who knows.
From experience, I've had Expedia call me when I've made bookings for others using my credit card number. So I suspect that's what happened there.
By the way, what is "mailexpire.com"? And what's a temporary email address? How hard is it to open a new "regular" email address?
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By the way, what is "mailexpire.com"? And what's a temporary email address? How hard is it to open a new "regular" email address?
I'm not familiar with mailexpire, but with a service like mailinator you'd just give them any e-mail address for one of their domains, and then you can go to the site, type in the e-mail and see the "inbox." In other words, zero security, but also zero work with account creation. All inboxes get purged every few hours, though, so nothing gets stored.
Would agree that invalidating codes sent to that type of address is a necessary step. Many of the "public" codes posted in places were probably generated that way, as it'd be a lot less work to do it that way.
Everyone knows that's where the quality lodging is. 
same credit card for 10 nights ?
