I'm sorry I was not there to witness the discomfort. It was well deserved.

People using fraudulent discount rate codes drive up the rates that the honest people have to pay... or drive the hotel to trim the benefits that we cry about when we miss them.

I anticipate that I'll get a lot of self-serving, situational ethics rationalizations posted in response to this blunt assertion... but dishonesty is dishonesty... a single individual cheating a multinational corporation is still... cheating.

And FT should not, as it has in the past, facilitate this practice by condoning threads soliciting illicit rate codes, or asking for advice on how to successfully use such codes.

A MOD recently closed a thread where the OP was seeking assistance in defrauding a hotel. Unfortunately, since the thread was closed, I could not post to it to thank the MOD publicly... but I will do so now... KUDOS!

Fraudulent misrepresentation - Instance of false statement where (1) the party making the statement is aware that it is false or disregards the possibility of it being false, (2) the party making the statement does so to induce another party to enter into a contract, and (3) the other party enters the contract as a result of the statement and consequently suffers a loss.