Originally Posted by
Mackieman
Except the target isn't moving. It's been pretty well defined and, while not concretely definitive via press release or post from CO Insider, there is enough group observation evidence to strongly support the facts as they are understood today.
Your refusal to accept this reality and substitute your own wherein you're free to behave in a manner that is counter-intuitive and unproductive is waxing old. There is no vast alien conspiracy to rob you of upgrades, and no one owes you complete transparency on any subject. You're a customer buying a product and nothing more.
Originally Posted by
belynch
The OP almost undoubtedly was offered a lower buy-up fare as a Plat because it was putting him into an M or B fare, which is companion wasn't able to access as a non-elite. Why the diatribe? It's very simple to understand.
I have to say that I've learned nothing from your posts, except that you're blatantly biased for some reason that's beyond my comprehension, you add nothing constructive to the community, and I should probably add you to my ignore list. Sorry. Just calling a spade a spade.
The "diatribe" wasn't targeted at the OP in this forum - I referenced
another poster's example of a buy-up target that did actually move by the day (which, if you believe that poster, and we have no reason to, you could call "facts" in that they showed the target wasn't "so well defined"). But I guess this is a separate "reality" (even though we consistently hear similar examples).
I'm flying the metal where UGs are processed intuitively, and I'm not asked for more $ to play the Prisoner's Dilemma game. My fear (backed up by many others daily, speficially longtime, loyal Plats and newly crowned PPlats) is that the new UA evolves into a series of short-sighted, transactional processes. Not too "counter-intuitive" to me.