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Expiring Voucher, please help
I've got a $300 voucher I received from accepting a bump. It's not transferrable. I've been looking for a time to spend it on a vacation, but havent had time off and cant plan for a date in the future. It expires in 3 days!!!! What are my best options. I have 95k delta points without any status. I was thinking buying miles? Unless anyone else has a better idea.
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What if you used it on a fully refundable ticket?
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I called customer service about your suggestion. It looks like they refund the money back to the voucher, which is expired, and it therefore wasted. Great idea though it looks like they thought of it first.
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Perhaps not transferable, but can't you book a ticket for someone else?
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Originally Posted by ohnodapopo
(Post 19978137)
I called customer service about your suggestion. It looks like they refund the money back to the voucher, which is expired, and it therefore wasted. Great idea though it looks like they thought of it first.
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Originally Posted by ohnodapopo
(Post 19978137)
I called customer service about your suggestion. It looks like they refund the money back to the voucher, which is expired, and it therefore wasted. Great idea though it looks like they thought of it first.
Agreed that there are no holes to "get the money back". |
First Class Gambit
Originally Posted by ohnodapopo
(Post 19978137)
I called customer service about your suggestion. It looks like they refund the money back to the voucher, which is expired, and it therefore wasted. Great idea though it looks like they thought of it first.
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Originally Posted by jzumrick
(Post 19978277)
This was discussed some time ago. At that time it was stated that the voucher portion would be refunded as a new voucher with a new expiration date.
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Update
To update anyway who is still reading this:
I booked a fully-refundable ticket the day before expiration, hoping to roll the dice. Called in today trying to move the ticket for an flight 6 months from now but no luck. The voucher is without value as soon as I cancel the sham booking. I could have bought 8000 skymiles but instead came up with nothing. Sigh. |
why didn't you figure out a week or weekend that you would be free and spend it on a trip?
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Originally Posted by aubreyfromwheaton
(Post 21318593)
why didn't you figure out a week or weekend that you would be free and spend it on a trip?
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Originally Posted by ohnodapopo
(Post 21316588)
To update anyway who is still reading this:
I booked a fully-refundable ticket the day before expiration, hoping to roll the dice. Called in today trying to move the ticket for an flight 6 months from now but no luck. The voucher is without value as soon as I cancel the sham booking. I could have bought 8000 skymiles but instead came up with nothing. Sigh. |
Originally Posted by Delta Points
(Post 19978397)
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Originally Posted by jzumrick This was discussed some time ago. At that time it was stated that the voucher portion would be refunded as a new voucher with a new expiration date. They have "fixed" that now. Both the fly by and exp date of the 1st ETV will follow you. But, as said, if you just respend the refundable right away on say another ticket that is inside the rules. For now..... (confirmed all this for a post) |
Originally Posted by RFDMinnesota
(Post 21346844)
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Originally Posted by ohnodapopo To update anyway who is still reading this: I booked a fully-refundable ticket the day before expiration, hoping to roll the dice. Called in today trying to move the ticket for an flight 6 months from now but no luck. The voucher is without value as soon as I cancel the sham booking. I could have bought 8000 skymiles but instead came up with nothing. Sigh. AFAIK, you cannot use an ETV to purchase Skymiles so your loss isn't what it appears |
Expiring Voucher, please help
Lesson learned: don't take a bump if you don't think you have a reasonable chance of using the voucher within a year. let them IDB you and they'll be forced to give you cash. Or let someone else take the bump.
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