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Originally Posted by roadtripman
The only person who has claimed to get referral credit since the reinstatement of the coupons in early August was xanthuous as I recall.
I have used 10-15 coupons since then....from multiple email aliases/referrals....no 40 GBP's generated.
Both of the two referrals that went through definitely (I suspect more complied also) occurred in July. This was before any change, and I was checking my email every day for a code to see when I could make my next reservation.
I never did get either code; I made my reservations on other sites and will continue to do so.
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Originally Posted by josephstern
Both of the two referrals that went through definitely (I suspect more complied also) occurred in July. This was before any change, and I was checking my email every day for a code to see when I could make my next reservation.
I never did get either code; I made my reservations on other sites and will continue to do so.
That most definitely is strange - I received my referral dollars for every person I referred, up to the point when they pulled the offer. After that, none of the remaining referrals were honored.
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That most definitely is strange - I received my referral dollars for every person I referred, up to the point when they pulled the offer. After that, none of the remaining referrals were honored.
Haven't others reported this also?
I went through every crazy Viagra email in my spam folder for weeks looking for these.
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Originally Posted by josephstern
Given their roots as a Microsoft company, I guess I should have been warned, but, hey, I wanted the cash. Then I never got it.
Fool me once . . .
Reminds me of the currently running Mac commercial where the PC guy sez Windows 7 won't have the problems Vista did. "Haven't I heard this before?" Then they go back in time where a younger-looking version of Microsoft man says Vista won't have the problems or XP, then Still younger with XP won't have the problems of ME (especially loud sneer) and so on.
As for receiving credits, I had a few acknowledged as referred on the referral toteboard and the voucher never came.
Looks like I might have bookable dates at the end of the vouchers , kinda like having month left at the end of the money. I'll troll for other deals on the low-value Asia bookings rather than using GBP40s on a GBP20 hotel. Maybe a $50-off-3-days would make a dent.
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Originally Posted by Winston Cash
I agree, I haven't received my voucher either...
I'm trying to figure out what hotel site to use instead of these jokers. Anyone like hotels.com? They're on eBates.
I need to find something to replace Expedia after this nonsense. They took a mildly happy customer, enticed him with a promo, and made a very unhappy customer. Brilliant.
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To be fair, I did have a EUR40 come through about 3 days ago from a referral booking made 2 days or so before then.
If you're holding GBP20 vouchers (or presumably EUR20s as well), do note that you get to book only one of those per credit card number. I think someone reported you can book up to 3 of the GBP40s on the same credit card, but not the GBP20s. Programming is finally catching up to the terms of the deal now that the deal is effectively over.
One other thing: I've had a voucher or two land in my spam folder. If you're on a major ISP like AT&T and checking extra AT&T mailboxes via Outlook Express, you might not ever see the filtered spam. In my case I had to check it through the webmail access (now run by Yahoo) to see the spam folder. That gets emptied monthly, so I have to wonder if anything ended up there and was purged.
Actually it's not expired... There are still a lot out there, and lots of people are still benefiting from it...
Those that have coupons know it's not expired, but n00bs don't know that it's not expired. The generation of new "old coupons" is gone, thus thread is [expired]
, kinda like having month left at the end of the money. I'll troll for other deals on the low-value Asia bookings rather than using GBP40s on a GBP20 hotel. Maybe a $50-off-3-days would make a dent.
