UA closed my account.
Aug 19, 2012, 7:30 pm
#31
Join Date: Apr 2010
Programs: UA 1K
Posts: 697
I really hope this does not happen. Do we really need to give them more ways to charge us? I can't even imagine the issues that the website/IT would have in implementing it.
Aug 19, 2012, 7:33 pm
#32
Join Date: May 2009
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By all means, engage your lawyer, but don't tell them you're doing this. Laywers are good at working the phone and getting to the bottom of things fast.
Aug 19, 2012, 7:43 pm
#33
Join Date: Oct 2009
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Actually, this is a good idea. It would definitely cut down on the sale of awards/UG instruments.
Aug 19, 2012, 7:48 pm
#34
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I have been here a long time, and I don't remember any of these threads that ended with "so they apologized and gave me my account back." In other words, my memory is that notwithstanding lots of arguing in the threads, when all was said and done, it was like Zombietooth's friend - guilty as charged. Anyone remember different?
Aug 19, 2012, 8:26 pm
#36
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: DEN
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People just get too greedy and arrogant sometimes.
The story is completely believable.
Aug 19, 2012, 8:30 pm
#37
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Seattle
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You say you're going to complain to the BBB about United.
I wish people would stop thinking the BBB is some amazing thing. The BBB can be bought. Businesses don't care about the BBB and it's wildly inaccurate. A lawsuit is far more effective in most cases. The BBB is a joke, I wish consumers would stop threatening (and actually) to complain to the BBB.
I wish people would stop thinking the BBB is some amazing thing. The BBB can be bought. Businesses don't care about the BBB and it's wildly inaccurate. A lawsuit is far more effective in most cases. The BBB is a joke, I wish consumers would stop threatening (and actually) to complain to the BBB.
Aug 19, 2012, 8:33 pm
#38
Join Date: Feb 2012
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I have been here a long time, and I don't remember any of these threads that ended with "so they apologized and gave me my account back." In other words, my memory is that notwithstanding lots of arguing in the threads, when all was said and done, it was like Zombietooth's friend - guilty as charged. Anyone remember different?
The OP's just sort of fade away!
However, in the meantime there are mucho back yard attorneys that lead the charge on FT, all of them without any facts or the info required to make a sound judgement or proper knowledge to make an assessment.
Aug 19, 2012, 8:34 pm
#39
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Seattle
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Don't forget that company and the owner(s) are completely different entities from legal point of view. Whether money has been transferred etc is probably irrelevant as the company has received indirect benefits... Would be completely different if you had booked flights for friends and family (and you are able to prove this).
Aug 19, 2012, 8:44 pm
#40
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: SEA
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More likely a UA employee posed as a buyer and bought one of his upgrades as a way to identify him.
Aug 19, 2012, 9:06 pm
#41
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 2,933
The OP wasn't hollerin' too much so I suspect that he knows why he's been suspended, and a phone call during the week may answer his questions. The call will come from someone that has nearly ALL the facts so beware!
BTW, this is the best advertising that UA can get. A guy gets busted and posts it on FT, and as others have stated we've never heard of anyone winning.
Last edited by LilAbner; Aug 19, 2012 at 9:11 pm
Aug 19, 2012, 9:17 pm
#42
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You say you're going to complain to the BBB about United.
I wish people would stop thinking the BBB is some amazing thing. The BBB can be bought. Businesses don't care about the BBB and it's wildly inaccurate. A lawsuit is far more effective in most cases. The BBB is a joke, I wish consumers would stop threatening (and actually) to complain to the BBB.
I wish people would stop thinking the BBB is some amazing thing. The BBB can be bought. Businesses don't care about the BBB and it's wildly inaccurate. A lawsuit is far more effective in most cases. The BBB is a joke, I wish consumers would stop threatening (and actually) to complain to the BBB.
If it was not for that complaint, I would probably still be fighting them.
So while it may be a joke, this time at least it worked.
Aug 19, 2012, 9:32 pm
#43
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Houston, TX, USA
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You say you're going to complain to the BBB about United.
I wish people would stop thinking the BBB is some amazing thing. The BBB can be bought. Businesses don't care about the BBB and it's wildly inaccurate. A lawsuit is far more effective in most cases. The BBB is a joke, I wish consumers would stop threatening (and actually) to complain to the BBB.
I wish people would stop thinking the BBB is some amazing thing. The BBB can be bought. Businesses don't care about the BBB and it's wildly inaccurate. A lawsuit is far more effective in most cases. The BBB is a joke, I wish consumers would stop threatening (and actually) to complain to the BBB.
Aug 19, 2012, 9:37 pm
#44
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If they want to close your account, at least they have to tell you ahead of time. I never think that a big company such as UA has no credit like this.
Aug 20, 2012, 5:44 am
#45
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july07 - you've responded several times to this thread, but never directly answered the question: did you sell or barter the award tickets or upgrades you redeemed from your account to another party? That's the matter at hand. As others have already noted in this thread, we've seen posts similar to yours many times over the years, and not a single time did they end with "they accused me of selling an award, but I didn't." That particular issue is either ignored, or responded to with something like "They have no proof of that" or "I should be able to do what I want - they're my points!"
If you did indeed sell your award, did you tell UA ahead of time that that's what you were going to do?
If you did indeed sell your award, did you tell UA ahead of time that that's what you were going to do?