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Old Mar 6, 2018, 8:54 am
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Originally Posted by tanner1821
Dang this stinks. I'd be ticked off too. I fully agree SPG should make this right. Clearly you are the type of customer this chain is looking for. A loyal customer who stays a substantial amount of nights per year. It would mean absolutely nothing to SPG to give you PLAT. And for those who say "rules are rules", try an get off your high horse. If the OP had exactly the number of stays he says he had, you can't really think he/she should not be allowed a tiny bit of leniency?
You make a point, but it raises the question for me of,.... If SPG is simply going to determine who the high value customers are in a subjective manner, why bother having the rules at all? Just let SPG figure out which customers it wants to retain and pay attention to them.

I see no way to have a program like this without rules; and if one is going to have rules which have meaning, they should be followed.
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