Simon mall gift card(2014-2015)
Nov 15, 2014, 1:54 pm
#587
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: DCA
Posts: 7,769
Today I go to Nice Truffle Lady to pick up 2 cards to knock out a retention bonus. She confirms that I want "Only two?" and then proceeds to tell me about how "One of [her] customers" regularly buys 19 at a time "for the award flight things" and that she is "thinking about getting into the game".
This is why we can't have nice things.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Nov 15, 2014, 2:18 pm
#588
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 688
Today I go to Nice Truffle Lady to pick up 2 cards to knock out a retention bonus. She confirms that I want "Only two?" and then proceeds to tell me about how "One of [her] customers" regularly buys 19 at a time "for the award flight things" and that she is "thinking about getting into the game".
This is why we can't have nice things.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Nov 15, 2014, 2:36 pm
#589
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: DCA
Posts: 7,769
I know it's no secret. Simon is in on the game. Which is why it's all the more important, in my opinion, that people don't push the limit and test their comfort level. But of course people will, and this will go the way of everything before it.
Nov 15, 2014, 2:49 pm
#590
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 688
Even though they won't tolerate MS'ing on business accounts, so far they have tolerated it on personal accounts. Instead of banning me from purchasing GC's, they told me "you can't buy the $1k cards since that's for business accounts but you can buy the $500 GC's and up to $10k/day."
Nov 15, 2014, 3:01 pm
#591
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Madison, WI, USA
Posts: 14,162
Even if people don't push it, it will go away eventually. People spend too much time worrying -- just go on to the next opportunity. Even if you only get to take advantage of one for a week, you're still ahead of the game. There's really no need to fret over future possible might-have-beens.
Nov 15, 2014, 3:33 pm
#592
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: DCA
Posts: 7,769
Even though they won't tolerate MS'ing on business accounts, so far they have tolerated it on personal accounts. Instead of banning me from purchasing GC's, they told me "you can't buy the $1k cards since that's for business accounts but you can buy the $500 GC's and up to $10k/day."
Maybe, maybe not. These companies are smart. The know what's going on from day 1. The deal dies when something gets past their comfort level. What metric that is, well it probably varies for company to company. But in theory at least if things stayed at some acceptable level then there would be a steady state. But we've never seen it happen, of course, because people push it on the user side.
Nov 15, 2014, 4:49 pm
#593
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Minnesota
Programs: Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 1,101
Nov 15, 2014, 6:23 pm
#595
Nov 15, 2014, 8:23 pm
#596
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Minnesota
Programs: Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 1,101
Nov 15, 2014, 8:31 pm
#598
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Madison, WI, USA
Posts: 14,162
...Maybe, maybe not. These companies are smart. The know what's going on from day 1. The deal dies when something gets past their comfort level. What metric that is, well it probably varies for company to company. But in theory at least if things stayed at some acceptable level then there would be a steady state. But we've never seen it happen, of course, because people push it on the user side.
Nov 15, 2014, 8:33 pm
#599
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Minnesota
Programs: Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 1,101
Nov 15, 2014, 8:53 pm
#600
Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 282
"If you go over that limit, MCE will freeze, with the message 'Approval Needed', and a store manager will be notified (via their handset) to come fix the machine."
Source:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/manuf...ys-broken.html