Plastic Cards
Nov 13, 2004 | 3:20 pm
#16
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 3
I actually like the thinner, "Flimsy" cards. I have too darn many cards in my wallet already, and carrying 3 FF cards, 5 hotel cards, and a couple auto rental cards makes my butt lopsided.
I used to put all my numbers on a small laminated card that I just carried around, but a number of airlines have started getting persnickety about it, and will only let me confirm FF#'s at the checkin counter if I have the actual card. And since my company travel agency screws up about half the time, it's a must that I confirm at the counter.
So give me those thin flimsy cards so I can shove them all in my wallet to make the check-in people happy.
I used to put all my numbers on a small laminated card that I just carried around, but a number of airlines have started getting persnickety about it, and will only let me confirm FF#'s at the checkin counter if I have the actual card. And since my company travel agency screws up about half the time, it's a must that I confirm at the counter.
So give me those thin flimsy cards so I can shove them all in my wallet to make the check-in people happy.
Nov 14, 2004 | 11:27 pm
#17
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: USA
Posts: 1,017
I am with the previous poster. These programs should never issue a card. You should get a membership number, which you can plug into your palm pilot or write in your organizer along with every other membership number. I have about fifty or sixty plastic cards in a messy pile in the drawer. It seems awfully presumptuous of these bazillion membership programs to think they are so important to you that you'd carry around their card everywhere; they're like a pitiful high-schooler with a crush.
Remember when Southwest Airlines would refuse to give you credit for a flight segment unless you presented a physical card? Thankfully, they changed that ridiculous policy.
Remember when Southwest Airlines would refuse to give you credit for a flight segment unless you presented a physical card? Thankfully, they changed that ridiculous policy.
Nov 14, 2004 | 11:40 pm
#18
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Programs: UA 1K 1MM (finally!), IHG AMB-Spire, HH Diamond
Posts: 62,517
Originally Posted by GradGirl
I am with the previous poster. These programs should never issue a card. You should get a membership number, which you can plug into your palm pilot or write in your organizer along with every other membership number. I have about fifty or sixty plastic cards in a messy pile in the drawer. It seems awfully presumptuous of these bazillion membership programs to think they are so important to you that you'd carry around their card everywhere; they're like a pitiful high-schooler with a crush.
Nov 15, 2004 | 6:49 am
#19
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Marietta, GA
Programs: AA EXP;SPG Gold; Priority Club Spire Ambassador; Hilton Diamond
Posts: 796
Originally Posted by uastarflyer
A nice card is part of a very cheap promo opportunity for the program - the goal being to get you to send more of your business to that program. A simple email or "print me!" webscreen may tell the prospective customer they don't really have interest in their business...
Nothing like getting your new card when you hit a new Elite level!