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Originally Posted by groucho333
(Post 18382084)
I have used TLC on a few cruises on Azamara. They cannot change the price, but they can definitely lower your cost (ask Dave).
You can become very pleased. [email protected] (that's me if you have questioins). BTW - I may be wrong :confused:, but I think Cabin Clearance Store is the online-only agency of Cruise Brothers, as they are both located in the same town (also both use the same internet interface). The difference being that CCStore is very difficult to reach via phone --and no "hand-holding", you need to know exactly what you want to book. But their prices are very good if you have a little experience with cruising. |
Spam from address used at Cruisecompete?
I don't want to start a new thread, but has anyone received Foursquare spam lately at an email address used with CruiseCompete? I received 4 pieces of spam addressed to custom addresses that I *only* used at CruiseCompete (I have my own domain and have a wildcard definition so I get all email addressed to it and and got mail at cruisecomp and cruisecompete at that domain; I do this so I can figure out where my email was compromised in situations like this). The subject line of one of them was "Myrddin Anderson has sent you a private message on foursquare" -- the others were similar. I contacted CruiseCompete, they told me they had not been hacked and the address must have been stolen from my local machine (they also told me that agents who respond to your request do not get your email address). That's pretty much impossible, since the only spam of this sort that I received was to those two addresses.
Anyway, I am curious to know if anyone else got this spam. |
I've had good experiences with Cruise Compete.....have booked several cruises through CC.
Like others have said, make sure the quotes you get are for the cabin grade you requested and check that all taxes/fees are included. |
I have tried CC for the first time. I got 5 offers on a named cruise.
1 offer 2.600 with 50$ onboard credit 4 offers 2700 with 100-200$ on board credit The difference is not that big, but it was still cheaper than booking at the cruiseline directly. |
Burned by Cruise Compete - BEWARE
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CruiseCompete claims it is not a travel agency; it states it is an LLC:
CruiseCompete LLC is an independent organization affiliated with Compete Ventures LLC. We are not a travel agency or owned by a travel agency, and we provide travel agents with a steady stream of easy-to-manage, highly qualified leads. It appears to be a "middleman" brokering bids from would-be cruisers to agents (who pay of they do not respond to 300 bids in 90 days - that is a lot of bids, and how many they could bid might depend on how many submissions are received from would-be cruisers, the specialty areas each agency has, etc.) (Information given in the post above is readily available online, including CruiseCompete itself claims Robert Levinstein is CEO and the company address.) With only vague statements and no specifics, it might be difficult for some to put much credibility into accusatory statements. |
Originally Posted by micooper
(Post 18646588)
Cruise Compete has no business licenses.
http://sos.iowa.gov/search/business/...sMOzHtLiMbVwk1 Perhaps share more details about your bad experience with them? |
Originally Posted by micooper
(Post 18646919)
The link you provided takes you to the Secretary of State Division of Corporations. That just shows that they are a registered limited liability company in Iowa. It is not a license.
Moderator, you are correct that Cruise Compete claims it is not a travel agency, however Iowa law is clear in its definition of one: "Travel agency" means a person who represents, directly or indirectly, that the person is offering or undertaking by any means or method, to provide travel services for a fee, commission, or other valuable consideration, direct or indirect." It is a pretty broad definition. Link to Iowa Code: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/coo...ga=83&input=9D Other states such as Florida, California and Washington have similar language. Additionally, Cruise Compete registered a trademark with the USTPO and claimed they were a travel agency. http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield...005:ddju51.2.1 Cruise Compete claims it is not a travel agency on its website, but markets cruises and makes commission on them (between 2 to 15%), sells shore excursions and travel insurance as well as other travel related services for which it receives fees or commissions. Also, here is a link to the list of registered Iowa travel agents. Cruise Compete is not on this list. http://sos.iowa.gov/business/pdf/TravelAgencies.pdf I have an upcoming trip booked through them so I'm interested in what you have to say. However, as of now the only issues you have mentioned is that they seem to be a one man show operated out of his home, and may be bending the rules about travel agent registration. Can you please shed some light as to how they "burned" you? |
Definitely hacked
Originally Posted by MisterBill
(Post 18463168)
I don't want to start a new thread, but has anyone received Foursquare spam lately at an email address used with CruiseCompete? I received 4 pieces of spam addressed to custom addresses that I *only* used at CruiseCompete (I have my own domain and have a wildcard definition so I get all email addressed to it and and got mail at cruisecomp and cruisecompete at that domain; I do this so I can figure out where my email was compromised in situations like this). The subject line of one of them was "Myrddin Anderson has sent you a private message on foursquare" -- the others were similar. I contacted CruiseCompete, they told me they had not been hacked and the address must have been stolen from my local machine (they also told me that agents who respond to your request do not get your email address). That's pretty much impossible, since the only spam of this sort that I received was to those two addresses.
Anyway, I am curious to know if anyone else got this spam. Just got some kind of phishing type of spam purportedly from facebook but leading to some other website to my cruisecompete@ email address. |
Just used CC for our upcoming cruise. The prices were certainly better than I found elsewhere. I ended up going with Cruises-n-more but the agent himself sucked. I couldn't get a quote for the exact cruise I wanted through CC, so I found the cruise I wanted & contacted the agency directly. Although I had to do all the legwork of finding the cruise, the best combination, available rooms, etc...they quoted me $200 less (on an inside) than the cruise line.
As an aside, on CC I only got a maximum of 3 quotes for each of several cruises that I requested. When I filled out their survery after, it appears that there's only about 6 participating agencies total. |
I have had as many as 7 bids in reply to a cruise request to cruise compete-- Although, my last request was about 5 months ago and it is possible that the number of agencies has dropped.
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Have used them twice to good advantage. Used the same travela gent again without cruise compete. Both cruises were at better prices.
However, you may still find lower prices elsewhere |
Originally Posted by TTnC4me
(Post 18868981)
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As an aside, on CC I only got a maximum of 3 quotes for each of several cruises that I requested. When I filled out their survery after, it appears that there's only about 6 participating agencies total. |
I've been getting quotes for various Princess and Holland America repo cruises. They're pretty competitive within $50 of each other for HAL. Latest one came with no agent credits but I saved over $100 p.p. (~8% of basic cruise fare) though I could have gotten another $50.
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Good way to see what the market is, then try to beat the price through other means. Don't know where else to look though...
Anyone use Amex for platinum upgrade? |
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