Are you willing to donate or barter FF miles?
Aug 4, 2000 | 11:02 am
#91
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: (SNA) Orange County, California USA
Posts: 3,641
Originally posted by pshuang:
Originally posted by BoSoxFan45:
Mvic, my experience has been that I didn't "get burned once in a while," I got burned virtually all the time when helping others with urgent requests. And I have had a less richer life for doing so. I agree with you on the "more interesting life" aspect, though. I just want people to be honest with me, that's all! I don't feel that is asking too much. Unfortunately, based on my life's experiences and in similar circumstances, I am no longer willing to give persons "the benefit of the doubt." I believe it was President Reagan that once said, "...trust, but verify." I may have been born at night, but I sure wasn't born last night. In this instance, the value of those miles could range anywhere from a few hundred dollars to over a thousand dollars, depending on how the donor would have personally used them.
There were numerous caring and sincere requests to hersheymom for validation and documentation! They went unanswered and ignored. I am perplexed and saddened. These initial requests and continued skepticism, I feel, are entirely justified. She had every opportunity to address these concerns and chose not to. I don't feel it was unreasonable to expect additional details, especially after reading some of her comments, rationale and criteria. For instance, why American Airlines, why the concern for earning frequent flyer miles at a time like this with a charitable request???
Originally posted by hersheymom:
(excerpts from three separate posts on this thread)
Has anyone, anywhere, any time, somehow, someway been able to verify the validity of hersheymom's "sincere request" for her roundtrip to Honolulu, Hawaii? It's not easy going through a situation or illness such as she has stated. If her request is valid, I'm sure there are persons that are still willing to assist her, perhaps even above and beyond her initial request. FlyerTalk is a fine community of kind, helpful, caring, compassionate and generous persons. Respecting the many requests for additional information would have gone a long way toward positive results and good feelings, I believe.
[This message has been edited by MRLIMO (edited 08-05-2000).]
hersheymom, it would be so easy for you to demonstrate your situation is genuine. Call Dan at WebFlyer or anybody else at WebFlyer. Give your name, your mom's name, the hospital, phone number of the doctor, etc. You can ask for total confidentiality from Dan that he not release any of the information to anybody on this board. It's hardly asking a lot of you.
Finally, having lived in HNL, I am familiar with the medical community there. Perhaps you could help bolster your credibility by telling us the name of any hospital or doctor she has seen.
There were numerous caring and sincere requests to hersheymom for validation and documentation! They went unanswered and ignored. I am perplexed and saddened. These initial requests and continued skepticism, I feel, are entirely justified. She had every opportunity to address these concerns and chose not to. I don't feel it was unreasonable to expect additional details, especially after reading some of her comments, rationale and criteria. For instance, why American Airlines, why the concern for earning frequent flyer miles at a time like this with a charitable request???
Originally posted by hersheymom:
(excerpts from three separate posts on this thread)
.......Does anyone have any FF miles to donate or barter on American Airlines?.......
.......Laugh you may but this was a sincere request. Thanks anyway. I know there are some charitable people in this world somewhere.
.......I don't prefer to use auction sites 'cause you don't earn FF miles with the cheaper "name your price" ticket. Thanks.
.......Laugh you may but this was a sincere request. Thanks anyway. I know there are some charitable people in this world somewhere.
.......I don't prefer to use auction sites 'cause you don't earn FF miles with the cheaper "name your price" ticket. Thanks.
[This message has been edited by MRLIMO (edited 08-05-2000).]
Aug 4, 2000 | 11:58 am
#92
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: STL, MO, USA;BCN, Spain;LGW, UK
Posts: 840
I agree with you Mr. Limo that Hersheymom didn't appear to be serious after all.
However, as far as giving people the benefit of the doubt and not making negative assumptions goes all I can say is that either I have been lucky, or as I would prefer to believe, you have been unlucky.
[This message has been edited by Mvic (edited 08-04-2000).]
However, as far as giving people the benefit of the doubt and not making negative assumptions goes all I can say is that either I have been lucky, or as I would prefer to believe, you have been unlucky.
[This message has been edited by Mvic (edited 08-04-2000).]
Aug 4, 2000 | 3:22 pm
#94
Join Date: Apr 1999
Posts: 3,709
Now that the furor has died down a bit...
A couple of months ago I was planning to take a sick friend to TPA and I was looking for strategies to get upgraded.
Within several hours, I had several people respond via FT or e-mail offering their miles.
I used my own mileage (but appreciated their offer). My point is that I was merely asking for IDEAS and many people OFFERED. Certainly the fact that I've been on this board for a little over a year helped my credibility.
FT is a home for generous souls. But since the very large influx of users since the Pudding Guy story broke, it is easy to grow a little suspicious.
Maybe this thread got a little too heated at times, but BOTH sides in this argument have their point.
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"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own."
A couple of months ago I was planning to take a sick friend to TPA and I was looking for strategies to get upgraded.
Within several hours, I had several people respond via FT or e-mail offering their miles.
I used my own mileage (but appreciated their offer). My point is that I was merely asking for IDEAS and many people OFFERED. Certainly the fact that I've been on this board for a little over a year helped my credibility.
FT is a home for generous souls. But since the very large influx of users since the Pudding Guy story broke, it is easy to grow a little suspicious.
Maybe this thread got a little too heated at times, but BOTH sides in this argument have their point.
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"I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own."