Originally Posted by chobby100
Care to rectify your advice in
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...8&page=1&pp=15
You seem to tell some that it's ok as long as within the rules and other that such actions are undiginified and abusive and those trying to to take advantage of progams in this way should "(e)xercise some diginity and some restraint" and not do these things. So which is it?
RES IPSA LOQUITUR
Since you probably do not know what this means, I will be glad to translate for you:
Although I was not the first to coin the "dignity and restraint" statement, I wholehartedly agree with those sentiments.
What Big Lar had indicated:
1). Use of a negotiated rate -- A negotiated rate is one that his
employer has agreed with Marriott to provide to its employees -- including Big Lar -- because of the significant business Big Lar's employer swings to the benefit of Marriott and its' franchisees;
2). Substitution of his wife's name for such rate for a period of time;
3). Use of a standard credit card for payment of his
business stay.
What you wanted to do:
1). Use Priceline -- which is no negotiated rate, and which does not benefit the lodging chain as a whole, but only one specific hotel that needs to fill its rooms; this, then, is something quite unlike what Marriott had negotiated with Big Lar's employer so that the entire lodging chain might benefit "chain-wide" from the business Big Lar's employer's workforce would bring to that chain;
2). For a period of 14 days -- that is two weeks -- in one room;
3). Payment to be made via a pre-paid credit card that one picks up at your neighbohood drug store.
I will say it again:
RES IPSA LOQUITUR -- EXERCISE SOME DIGNITY AND RESTRAINT!!
I will add that nowhere does Big Lar aver that he had intended to do this "maneuver" of yours for a period of
TWO WEEKS, nor that he intended to do it with a form of payment that was questionable at the time of the original posting.
I may not agree with what Big Lar did re his phantom wife's stays, but nowhere did he write that he intended to go down to the front desk each day for a period of TWO WEEKS and checkout after each day.
If I were Big Lar, I would demand an apology from you for daring to suggest that what you intended to do and what he did were equivalent, but I will not seek to speak for him.
All I will state, is that you should have exercised some DIGINITY AND RESTRAINT before you informed yet another forum on FT the unbelievable extent to which you will sink in order to gain some fleeting advantage.
By the way, how's your requalification for elite status in Hyatt going, now since they have excluded Priceline rates from qualifying?
