Most airline and hotel forums publish targeted and non targeted promos.

And ways to get discount vouchers and $$$ off coupons etc, etc, that one otherwise would not know about if not reading FT.

I can't really see much difference.

Someone posts how to get a Hilton gold card for 2 years if you call and ask for 'promo WXYZ' and half of FT does it.

Such things are exactly why FT is the world's busiest FF Bulletin board.

I ordered Pizza Hut delivery pizza tonight and said I was using a 2 for 1 Entertainment book coupon. Truth is, I used my last coupon months ago. Pizza Hut do not really care as they got the $18 off me and Dominos did not. Give the driver a tip and all is sweet with the world. What does he care?

Sure I have 'saved' $25 renting an Avis car for 5 days using those very useful codes published on the Avis forum. I confess here I am not a member of the South Dakota Baptist Fellowship that code DLxxxxxxx covers.

And frankly I do not think Avis cares. (Seeing they charge me about $40 a day for every kind of insurance they have, I bet they do not care!) If they did care, they'd surely demand proof of membership when collecting rental?

I doubt that the South Dakota Baptist Fellowship cares either, as it helps get some volume via their account - and maybe a better discount next year. If they care to sue me fine - but they will not sue FT.

I have booked hotel rooms before and checked the book that says "AAA Rate". Truth is I am not a AAA member and never have been, seeing I do not live in the USA. Egad. Oddly the hotels have never asked to see my alleged AAA card. So what if I get $11 off a Hilton night using that rate - they'd prefer I stayed Hilton and not Sheraton I bet.

That's how I look at this.