Originally Posted by divaof travel
What is even more intriguing to me are people who “get it” for airlines, but ignore the hotel programs, even if they spend scores of nights each year at high end chains. Almost everyboy I come across who travels frequently is involved with the airline programs, but only a minority participate in a hotel scheme.
ahh, I was like that for a while but now I know of the hilton and SPG gigs I do regularly use.
The reasons why people disregard some things may go further than some here are willing to comprehend. Think about it this way, for all you online photo enthusiasts out there:
There are a several places to share your photos you can put online. Iuse my Canon Elph to load them onto Shutterfly, which enables me to send a link to people to look at and possibly order photos from.
Shutterfly is I think the ONLY such service that DOES NOT require YOU the viewer to JOIN UP in order to view all my pictures!
Snap Fish does, Ofoto does, and so do many others.
Ok, so some junkies do join them all and even get freebies and points to do this. Many of you have seenthe MyPoints Snap Fish thing and have taken advantage of it on several occasions.
BUT...
and this is a big one for many people out there:
HOW MANY ACCOUNTS DO YOU HAVE OR WANT IN YOUR LIFE?
does it not get overwhelming to any of us?
YES!
I actually am STILL in the process of trying to streamline my many accounts in life and NO, you cannot have the same password for each one of them! Dont let anyone fool you with that come back!
Example: Continental Airlines wanted a 4 digit password and Continental Vactions site wanted a 6 digit one. There ya go. Some places require letters or other password combinations! It is a lot of stuff to handle.
i have an excel sheet with everything on it. But recently I got so overwhelmed myself, this sheet became a printout with post it notes stuck to it and new accounts or old accounts strewen about all over it. Then we moved and it is in a box that will soon be opened up and hopefully organized in my office to be in a room not yet painted.
And you want ME to join YET ANOTHER service or program?
NOPE!
Now, add a flood in your home town (let's say I llived in New Orleans) and that is just NOt a good thing at all.
hey, my dad was killed on 9/11/01. Do you know how badly it sucked to have to deal with AOL to get into his email and change it over to my mom's ability to read it?
that was harder to deal with than some of the funeral things we did!
wow.
Some people--self included--find it sometimes too hard to open yet another THING in their already busy life.
I gotta go to the bank now, so see you in a while. Oh, which card am I using and what's the pin? And did the bank just email me saying they are changing their systems and got bought out so I gotta choose another one anyway?
MM