Nov 20, 2013, 7:48 am
Last edit by: Pat89339
Do not call the airlines under any conditions! This is the fastest way to kill the trick and bring unwanted attention to your itinerary! And do not post precious deals in this thread, this is by far the fastest way to kill the trick!
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This is NOT the right place to ask: "Can you help me with a low fare for AAA-BBB?" This is not the beg-it thread, but the trick-it thread.
This thread deals with unique combinations of routes and booking tricks in order to lower prices on airline fares. Prices that would astound the general public are often achieved by the posters in this thread.
Many people, including airline representatives, monitor this thread. For that reason, it is unorganized, very content heavy, often lacking details, and written in shorthand. It takes patience and effort in order to understand the conversation and be able to participate as an active member.
We encourage you to read the entirety of this thread if you would like to get started and to experiment as soon as you understand the gist of Trick It. Lots of time spent reading, practicing, and learning is the only way to be able to reproduce our tricks and discover new ones yourself. There are many, many people who ask for advice here, so productive members are only able to help those who have shown a concerted effort and progress over a long period of time (months).
If you have no idea what this thread is about, a good place to start are various blogs' posts on the subject. At the very least, read the Rules for posting in this thread. They're also listed in the very first post, below.
Older portions of the thread have been separated into archive thread by year. They are listed below
2008 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2009 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2010 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2011 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2012 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2013 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2014 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
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This is NOT the right place to ask: "Can you help me with a low fare for AAA-BBB?" This is not the beg-it thread, but the trick-it thread.
This thread deals with unique combinations of routes and booking tricks in order to lower prices on airline fares. Prices that would astound the general public are often achieved by the posters in this thread.
Many people, including airline representatives, monitor this thread. For that reason, it is unorganized, very content heavy, often lacking details, and written in shorthand. It takes patience and effort in order to understand the conversation and be able to participate as an active member.
We encourage you to read the entirety of this thread if you would like to get started and to experiment as soon as you understand the gist of Trick It. Lots of time spent reading, practicing, and learning is the only way to be able to reproduce our tricks and discover new ones yourself. There are many, many people who ask for advice here, so productive members are only able to help those who have shown a concerted effort and progress over a long period of time (months).
If you have no idea what this thread is about, a good place to start are various blogs' posts on the subject. At the very least, read the Rules for posting in this thread. They're also listed in the very first post, below.
Older portions of the thread have been separated into archive thread by year. They are listed below
2008 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2009 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2010 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2011 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2012 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2013 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
2014 Trick It / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
Trick it / negotiate it / special savings lounge thread
Feb 1, 2024, 9:43 am
Join Date: Dec 2016
Posts: 41
People will continue to post, SF will continue to kill, and the circle of life will continue.
Feb 1, 2024, 11:59 am
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Australia
Programs: QF; VA; AS
Posts: 109
Clearly SF are posting these dealbto make money off the Ebook which then has a tendency to kill the trick.
Why is it not a good idea for knowledgeable posters here to post the entire deal here for free as soon as SF publish the full details on their site?
This serves a number of purposes:
- It takes revenue Ebook revenue away from SF
- It reduces clicks & comments which reduce ad revenue along with SEO
- It increases traffic to this site/thread
- It helps to educate the people who keep coming here asking for help by using actual examples of real, working dumps.
- If more people are taught how to find these dumps there’s potential for more new deal’s & activity on a relatively dormant thread
For many, revealing the dump immediately after SF goes live would only serve as educational anyway unless you live near the origin/destination. Most don’t.
Why is it not a good idea for knowledgeable posters here to post the entire deal here for free as soon as SF publish the full details on their site?
This serves a number of purposes:
- It takes revenue Ebook revenue away from SF
- It reduces clicks & comments which reduce ad revenue along with SEO
- It increases traffic to this site/thread
- It helps to educate the people who keep coming here asking for help by using actual examples of real, working dumps.
- If more people are taught how to find these dumps there’s potential for more new deal’s & activity on a relatively dormant thread
For many, revealing the dump immediately after SF goes live would only serve as educational anyway unless you live near the origin/destination. Most don’t.
Feb 1, 2024, 12:35 pm
Join Date: May 2019
Posts: 155
Clearly SF are posting these dealbto make money off the Ebook which then has a tendency to kill the trick.
Why is it not a good idea for knowledgeable posters here to post the entire deal here for free as soon as SF publish the full details on their site?
This serves a number of purposes:
- It takes revenue Ebook revenue away from SF
- It reduces clicks & comments which reduce ad revenue along with SEO
- It increases traffic to this site/thread
- It helps to educate the people who keep coming here asking for help by using actual examples of real, working dumps.
- If more people are taught how to find these dumps there’s potential for more new deal’s & activity on a relatively dormant thread
For many, revealing the dump immediately after SF goes live would only serve as educational anyway unless you live near the origin/destination. Most don’t.
Why is it not a good idea for knowledgeable posters here to post the entire deal here for free as soon as SF publish the full details on their site?
This serves a number of purposes:
- It takes revenue Ebook revenue away from SF
- It reduces clicks & comments which reduce ad revenue along with SEO
- It increases traffic to this site/thread
- It helps to educate the people who keep coming here asking for help by using actual examples of real, working dumps.
- If more people are taught how to find these dumps there’s potential for more new deal’s & activity on a relatively dormant thread
For many, revealing the dump immediately after SF goes live would only serve as educational anyway unless you live near the origin/destination. Most don’t.
Not really. as much as i hate SF for selling their eBooks, at least they stop selling them after a couple of days and so some of the dumps continue to work.
by sharing them on this forum its guaranteed to die
Feb 1, 2024, 4:10 pm
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Australia
Programs: QF; VA; AS
Posts: 109
Fuel dumping is such a niche subject and only taken on by those that a happy with a level of financial risk taking - it will never become mainstream. None of my friends or family have ever heard of Flyer Talk, nor would they care.
There’s only a small handful of knowledgeable people posting clues to deals here and a few thousand lurkers. Even the people who work out the methodology rarely are rarely posting 12 months later. Maybe there like me and prefer to travel in J, or maybe they start selling Ebooks.
Feb 1, 2024, 5:12 pm
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 46
That's correct, last year's one of SF's "ebook" deal is still actually alive this year.
Feb 1, 2024, 5:16 pm
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 412
I can't believe what I'm reading. It seems that the blog, which literally ruined through its extreme greed, a lot of great deals, "isn't so bad", because by some miracle one of the schemes sold still works. Well, let's leave them alone, or maybe remind them that they can still sell it again.
Feb 1, 2024, 5:40 pm
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 46
I can't believe what I'm reading. It seems that the blog, which literally ruined through its extreme greed, a lot of great deals, "isn't so bad", because by some miracle one of the schemes sold still works. Well, let's leave them alone, or maybe remind them that they can still sell it again.
Feb 1, 2024, 6:04 pm
Join Date: Jun 2022
Posts: 59
Its because FDing is boring and extremely mind numbing. The SF posts are either known or cracked in 5 minutes by any experienced member here. The reality is that if it's easy and popular the trick will die. If it's hard and complex to find then it will stay alive long enough to actually fly. If you want to learn then all the information is here or on Google.