Links to other sites/sites?

Matthew at www.UPGRD.com is great! Very thorough, extremely knowledgeable, patient, and put together a great solution for me and my family that was very difficult.

Very prompt service, very polite, and organized. He gave us several options and chocies and founds routings I didn't even think of. Highly recommended!

Couldn't agree more
 

^ I kept running into walls with the hang up and callback approach, the system won't price out a routing that's perfectly legal, and Matthew delivered the magic.

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Nice initiative, but before anyone are fooled pls see this text from the link "I am very happy to offer a PAY OUR OWN PRICE award booking service!".

Will you add a function where you let clients pay their own price directly to the non-profit organisation? Which one is it?

Thank you both for your kinds words and I look forward to working with you again. :)

This is great. I don't have anything to book now, but would definitely be interested for my next international trip.

Just note that I have 100+ requests in the queue right now, so expect waiting time of 15+ days. :)

I think my former analysis still stands then.

Response time of 15+ days would make this useless to me, and to most if not all I have helped with bookings.

Award booking service?
 

I need someone ASAP to run through my father-in-laws points and put together a multi-segment itinerary. I also need them to do that for me and my wife. So flight plans for 5 people (3 multi-segment, and 2 round trip), using a combination of Amex, United, Chase and AA miles. Needs to be explored asap.

Who is the BEST for this? I know there are multiple options floating out there, but who are the BEST?

I am OK paying a fee for someone's time (and would hope they would give me a discount for multiple business!)

Thank you

See this big list/thread?

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...ices-list.html

Canadian Kilometer recently started a "pay you wish" service, but I'm sure if you offer a nice price he could probably help you out faster
http://boardingarea.com/canadiankilo...oking-service/

Sorry about that. Missed that big posting! I did a search, and it clearly was a poor search.

Thanks

Any practical difference for the client?

As always there is no such thing as a free lunch. Such a long wait may see you loose those award seats you otherwise could have gotten, and in worst case force you to buy tickets meaning this free deal may cost you more than a lot $-wise.

I make it very clear that should they have an urgent request to find someone else. :confused::confused:

15 days+ response is far from urgent.

Not sure if your double emoticons are symbolizing any customer service level above the slow response to be expected, but as always- buyers be aware.

Its as stated not only about being urgent, but as well about seats disappearing, making the total far more expensive for the client needing to buy tickets instead, among other issues.

I guess there is no more point bumping this thread for the sake of marketing your service. And dont get me wrong. I appreciate any free alternatives, and I just want to point out the disadvantages of such service, if they are not clear enough.

And I just hope that this is not a marketing platform, where you after getting clients will start to charge all, or offer a more costly premium service etc. IMO.