Me three. I had three weeks' worth of points post to PCR yesterday. I'm now 13k away from platinum.

I should have at least 300 points posted, and there was some activity today on my account...

for 50 points.

They need to find a track to track and reward points better. It's so random.

My account hasn't had any credit but I'm using foursquare so I guess the problem hasn't been fixed. My girlfriend (also uses Foursquare) had a couple of Best Western points post on TopGuest but that is it.

Started to see checkins posting from foursquare to topguest again last night starting with the 31st, but the back ones from around the 15th through the 30th still haven't shown up.

I got like 18 emails this morning between 8:40 and 8:55 AM CST telling me bunch of check ins for the last 20 days.

Looks like it will now post clockwise.

Thanks for having this info here, folks! There's a holiday inn about a mile away from both my work and apartment so hopefully that's close enough to post. Since I don't have a smartphone yet it was a little tricky... I was having a heck of a time getting it to work with facebook, the page kept timing out on fb's side. I finally figured out how to make it work with foursquare's mobile page (even if I'm not on a mobile! excellent.). Anyway. Just wanted to say thank you for helping a newbie earn some points. =)

I am new to Top Guest and I am quite puzzled. When I read the Best Western Terms & Conditions it says and later on it says . Source: TopGuest

What does this mean? Can I check-in every day to a Best Western hotel without actually staying there and get for each virtual check-in 50 points? Or will they refuse the points "because improperly received points"?

That's one thing I don't understand either. However, I understand even less why a loyalty program (e.g. Best Western) would give you points for a "virtual check-in without actually staying at the hotel". Makes absolutely no sense to me

It's all so that they can get cheap advertising. By checking in all your friends see the name and brand o the hotel. Thus cheap advertising

Hi there. I'm Geoff Lewis, the CEO of Topguest. We are grateful for the support of the FlyerTalk community. However, there has also been some misuse of our service among this community. I look forward to participating in this thread going forward to ensure there is no more confusion going forward about acceptable use of our service.

The spirit of Topguest is to reward you for actually visiting Topguest partner locations, and sharing your presence at Topguest partner locations with your friends. In the Topguest enrollment process, we clearly state that you must actually be at the Topguest location (not driving by, not checking in from a few miles or few hundred meters away - but physically *at* the location) to use Topguest in a manner that is consistent with our fair use policy. The Topguest website also explains that Topguest exists to reward you for "Sharing your location with friends." Hence, one can reasonably assume that creating a private Foursquare or Facebook account expressly for the purpose of checking in to get points would not be in keeping with our fair use policy.

We reserve the right to suspend user accounts at our discretion any reason, including for using Topguest in a manner that is not in the spirit of the service or not in accordance with our fair use policy. You can consult http://www.topguest.com/support for details here , as well as the terms of use posted on our website for more detail. I am also available any time to personally answer your questions about acceptable use, at [email protected].

To be even more clear, some examples of Topguest use that are not consistent with the spirit of our service include:
- "Drive by" check-ins
- "Walk by" check-ins
- Creating a private foursquare account with no friends, and privately checking into multiple Topguest partner properties each day

We have many thousands of weekly active users who utilize Topguest in accordance with our fair use policy, and enjoy the benefits of our service in the way we intended. We hope that we can count all FlyerTalk members among these users in the future.

Many thanks!
Geoff

Welcome to FT, Topguest Lurker!

I do hope you realize that while both were started by Randy Peterson, MilePoint and FlyerTalk are unrelated web sites.

Hi there - yes , thanks for the catch. just edited my post. Great to be here!

I find my Priority Club visits post pretty well but never the Best Western's, so have given up on BW check-ins.

I hereby quit using TopGuest.

Hi Topguest Lurker, welcome.

I am having my lunch break virtually every day at the same Best Western hotel restaurant because it's near my office. That is according to the "fair use", isn't it?

However, I opened an account for myself, a "private account" as you call it. Is this against the policy? Do I need to find "friends" now in order to be within the rules?