<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ozstamps:
Ahh, Johnny-come-lately "Ethics" are the VERY worst type to have SMessier. Your own glowing "Ethics" in this matter only YESTERDAY amounted to GLOATING you had secured First Class TG seats 4J and 4K for both flights on your £0 booking.</font>
Hmmm -- my 4J/4K post (complete with
) came once it was clear the fare would not be honored. (Note therefore that it was not made YESTERDAY but rather today.) You may wish to label it as gloating, I think it was more tongue in cheek -- hence the
.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">It is simply a letter to see IF a useful response is received. I noticed no-one else was doing anything in this matter. And I bet if it IS responded to in any positive way, you will be the FIRST in line to rush off and "demand" the same terms to help retreive your "fraudulent" seats - 4J and 4K.</font>
No, in fact I won't be the first (or even the last, or anything in between.) As I posted earlier:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Thanks for the update. Too bad, but entirely reasonable imo. </font>
Strangely enough, the quote above came before my 4J/4K "gloat" -- I'm rather surprised you could have taken that seriously.
As I wrote above, there is no limit to what you apparently will do however. I can tell you there is one for me. It's a sliding scale I guess, since some have posted they refuse to book such fares. (More power to them, I have much respect for their position.) In this case, I made a reservation, on the off chance they might honor it. They've said they won't -- that settles it for me.
Letting people fly on free tickets in F/C is actually likely worse than no one flying, since the costs involved are definitely not zero (especially not at the rate some drink airline supplied booze.)
You on the other hand wrote a letter asserting you thought this was a promotional fare, when yesterday you wrote:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">I think if we took option #2 we have CLOSE TO ZERO chance they will honour it.</font>
Why would you not expect then to honor a promotional rate?
I suspect you have no legitimate "flight arrangements" made in connection to this booking -- at best some tickets on hold for the sole purpose of hoping to blackmail TG into some type of compensation.
Having spent $10K on an unspecified number of tickets in the past gives you some entitlement to blackmail and attempts at defrauding? Am I less guilty if I go steal a Nissan because that was the kind of car I bought 5 years ago? (Besides, Spider has told us how amazingly cheap TG is, so I imagine $10K is between two people for a large number of tickets.)
The fact that no one else was doing anything in this matter might show that while many are willing to take a chance on an obvious price mistake, few are willing to fake indignation and seek compensation. I'm happy to admit being willing to do the former, and just as happy not to be willing to do the latter.
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[This message has been edited by SMessier (edited 04-24-2003).]