Originally Posted by
redtailshark
Uh uh? "Not an official price offered"? How do you conjure that one? Yes it was. It was presented by DL.COM. Not the lowest - but a genuine DL.COM option along with many other unpublished redemption multiples.
I said it was not an
actual price offered. And I "conjured" that from the posts on the first page of the thread you cited.
The OP there, along with others, noted that the 720k price was cut in half upon clicking through to the next screen(s) in the booking process.
See:
Originally Posted by
foofiter
Originally Posted by
nypdLieu
Did you recheck yet?
I get $262,000 miles for those exact dates and class of service.
I saw that too just showing this portion of the results...
Was shocking that it even came up!
Foo
And on the same page:
Originally Posted by
james318
But on another note, when I actually go through to booking it, it shows 370,000.
Originally Posted by
javabytes
Moreover, if you actually select the flights that are shown at 720k, they drop to 370k at the itinerary review.
So, as I stated, it was a post about a website glitch (which needs to be fixed), not an actual redemption price offered. Even if the OP had selected the 720k option, he/she would have only been charged 370k. And 370k is still high, but it's only half of the 720k "actual DL SM redemption figure" you stated.
The OP of that thread only posted to see if anyone else had seen the same thing, and for the comic factor.
And before someone asks me where I "conjured that up" from, it's right here:
Originally Posted by
foofiter
Just posting here to:
1. See if anyone else ran into this
2. for the comic factor.
So, moving on to this...
Originally Posted by
redtailshark
DL.COM logic is not a "glitch." It demonstrates a management that is comfortable with fleecing the customers, who could fix it in a moment if they chose.
The 720k price quote is obviously a glitch if the price drops in half when you try to book it. If management really wanted to fleece the customers, why wouldn't they keep the price at 720k all the way through? "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
If you reject this premise, UA management does plenty of malicious things on United.com too. For example, on many days you can't even book a ticket from the united.com home page--the search box on the first page glitches with an error message. An experienced user knows to bypass this by going to "advanced search," but is the non-functioning home page search a malicious attempt to force customers to book tickets over the phone, so that UA management can fleece them for a $25 service charge and get pleasure from subjecting them to the ICC? I highly doubt it.
The OP of the "720k" thread posted that thread to complain (and rightfully so) about a website glitch displaying a crazy price, not to complain that DL was actually charging him/her 720,000 miles for a redemption. The OP's subsequent posts in the thread make this clear. To take the first post in that thread out of context and use it as "proof" that DL charges members 720,000 miles for coach awards from ATL to LHR is counterfactual and counterproductive.