Originally Posted by
davetravels
In my experience, the problem with this, is that, they take the people who vol online first. In my example above, I had inquired at the gate if the GA would need volunteers, and she said, probably, but she already had enough names. I was VERY disappointed! When she looked me up, she told me I WAS ONE OF THEM, because I vol'd ONLINE!
Fair point. I guess I look at as I would be unwilling to take less than $600 or so, so I never enter the $500 maximum. I should have put that caveat. If $500 was good enough for me, than it makes sense to use. (but just be happy to have gotten it!)
EDIT: I did not realize that Delta now allows you to enter your own amount in (up to $800). I will definitely take advantage of that going forward.
I did read the OP. To me it sounded like other flights were getting offers for more for shorter layovers and the OP was annoyed by the response/attitude of the red coat handling his inquiry as to why that was.
Just to me, seems like they made a big deal of a situation where they started off happy to get $500. If you fly all the time, and a situation like this gets you worked up enough to get a supervisor, I just don't know how you do it.