To post or not to post tricks
 

I myself like to share these tricks and treats, but as you all can see..They are being VULTURED off of FT and posted everywhere...The people that are posting these fares to other sites are ruing it for ALL flyertalkers including themselves...Maybe it is better just to post the TRICKED fare and say TRICK-IT without giving any other details...Saying that.. KARMA CAN BE A BICH ..What do you other flyertalkers think ?

"trick it" works for me. I'd just keep the caps off to keep it from standing out.

BTW, I'll be taking my second trip to LHR this week. Thanks to you!!!
The last trick allowed me to visit my daughter twice rather than once.

Thanks again

If its a mistake fare, I would post all details.

If its a trickable fare, I would hesitate, maybe post it and just say TRICK IT, do the rest by PMs?

Tough call.

I dont travel with OneWorld, so I should just post that trick up since I wont use it anyway, but if it ends up on some other forum within minutes :td::td::td: that ruins it for future use..

I like oneworld.............. ;)

What's the difference between a trick fare and a mistake fare?

One is a typo in the fare filing (e.g. CDN39.00 instead of CDN3900 for a ticket in J from YYZ to LCA) and one is a situation where one of the ticketing agencies is not correctly reading the various fare components and therefore is not applying some component - almost always a YQ fuel surcharge - correctly.

Restricting MR forum like CC would go a long way to fixing a lot of the issues we've had. Post min and long min membership time would do it I think.

And it would also have prevented some of the best "mega" deals. Quite a few have come from folks with very few posts. And enough people have enough posts that things posted would still be open to "pilferage" if you want to call it that.

As long as other longterm members who maybe have several handles because of previous suspension post these fares on their blog this is obviously not effective.

Public Forums = Public Knowledge
 

The entire online population can see these posts.

How can anybody really expect these deal not to be screwed up is beyond me.

I've watched for 7 years people call to get their seat assignments, ask the airline if the deal was real, can they make a change once ticketed and every other lame reason to call the airline while the deal is still live. And then be dumb enough to post on here what they did, even seasoned FT'ers.

We have tried pledges, signature tags, talked about restrictions until we are blue in the face. If it hits a public forum, here, fatwallet, slickdeals or Mary's Home Cooking Blog, the deal is soon to be over. Just accept it.

If you don't want the information spread to the world; Don't post it.

I even watched a private group deal get screwed up a couple weeks ago because a member leaked it to somebody they thought they could trust. They couldn't or shouldn't have

If you have any information that you want to keep to yourself, keep it to yourself.

The issue is old news. Public Forum = Public Knowledge= End of Deal

And if you don't lay it out in a public forum, I'm going to PM you privately for the information I need. And you then decide to share it with me or anybody else on your terms. "Yes you can pass it on" or "No, keep it to yourself for 24 hours" or what ever you want to do. When you put it here, your options are over, done and Kaputt.

Beaubo, put it best and I'll paraphrase: "When you come to the Mileage Run Forum, come with your credit card in hand, and work out the details later"

When information hits here, the Fat Lady is walking across the stage.

If the few flyertalk members who post these fares to other sites could just respect the members post and not post it to other sites, the deals would definetly last longer..

People who move these things to slickdeals and whatnot are morons. If I were you I would post the deal with enough info to figure it out and not much more, that way those who have at least put in some effort in the past will get it, and it reduces the chance that the random joker browsing fatwallet will get it. Maybe.

Even that I am a newbie, I would like to learn about those deals as well, so I don't think these deals should be available for senior FTs.

I am really looking forward to all the things I can learn from the forum! ^

Perhaps the MR forum could stay and a restricted MR "strategy" forum could serve as a place to share tricks without the whole world hearing about it.

Wasn't there just a vote about this very issue?

I believe the modest proposal was that members had to be signed on in order to see the deals. Seems reasonable to me as it would restrict the info to members, including newbies, while providing a small shield from global web search engines.