Goldpoints This Holiday Season; Ghost Town
Dec 27, 2002, 5:27 am
#1
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Posts: 1,751
Goldpoints This Holiday Season; Ghost Town
A couple random thoughts:
1. About this time last year I was using the Goldpoints web site ALOT for sweet deals on Hickory Farms, gift certificates via Hallmark.com and of course magazine subscriptions via valumags.com - in the process I spent alot of money and earned hundreds of thousands of Goldpoints. However, as far as this year's holiday shopping goes I once again checked out the Goldpoints portal and didn't find one single vendor or good deal that caught my eye. My, how things can change in the span of a year.
2. Since the good deals have disappeared and of course since Radisson changed their redemption levels last spring this Radisson/GoldPoints board has become a virtual ghost town - often only one or two posts in a week.
1. About this time last year I was using the Goldpoints web site ALOT for sweet deals on Hickory Farms, gift certificates via Hallmark.com and of course magazine subscriptions via valumags.com - in the process I spent alot of money and earned hundreds of thousands of Goldpoints. However, as far as this year's holiday shopping goes I once again checked out the Goldpoints portal and didn't find one single vendor or good deal that caught my eye. My, how things can change in the span of a year.
2. Since the good deals have disappeared and of course since Radisson changed their redemption levels last spring this Radisson/GoldPoints board has become a virtual ghost town - often only one or two posts in a week.
Dec 29, 2002, 9:38 pm
#2
Join Date: May 1999
Location: Ottawa
Posts: 8,564
True, but I'm having a great time burning off these points at Radisson properties! Of course that's better for them than airline miles, but I do find a certain clean simplicity in just looking for the nearest Radisson to a location, rather than hunting and price shopping.
andrew
andrew
Jan 25, 2003, 6:02 pm
#3
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Fort Myers, FL
Programs: Hilton Gold, SPG & IHG Plat, & every airline program that I can join
Posts: 2,279
After all the problems last spring with Goldpoints, we even stopped eating at TGI Fridays the usual 2-3 times a week. I now hit the IDine listed resturants for the 11 or 12 miles per dollar (depending on the card), no hassles, phone calls, emails, begging,pleading and points moving in& out of accounts . What a difference a year makes, but it was really exciting times back then, right gang?
Judy J
Judy J
Jan 26, 2003, 8:07 pm
#4
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Programs: AA- Lifetime Platinum; Marriott - Lifetime Platinum: Starwood - Gold; IHG - Platinum
Posts: 2,201
Yes, it was exciting! We hit the jackpot! I am looking forward to the next windfall altho I know it won't be with goldpoints.