<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by gleff:
.... *Wood made everyone on FT gold earlier this year (promo codes CV and VF IIRC).....
Look, they do this because they think it will be profitable.
But if they set up a promo in a way that will get away from them, that's their own technical fault.
Of course another way to look at these programs is as wildly successful given the tremendous interest!
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Absolutely correct
gleff.
And there was
no censorship back those few short months in the Starwood Board to those links being posted.
And IMO the members of Flyertalk who were interested
benefited due to that policy. And as you point out ... it will be
profitable for Starwood at the end of the day as well. A Gold card is useless unless you now stay at Starwoods - after all.
A "Win - Win" situation for all concerned it seems to me?
Let the huge
Corporations look after their own websites and block registering to whomever they wish. But please keep
RIGHT AWAY from blocking the traditions and appeal of Flyertalk.