Comments on: Travelers Advantage is a Traveler’s DIS advantage

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:59:33 +0000

Great post. I stumbled across this from a Google search when I too had just booked a reservation, and a chat window popped up “would you like to save $30 on the reservation you just made?”. I asked if the agent could actually guarantee that if I signed up for Travel Advantage for $1, that I would later receive $30 back and how I’d be able to prove to someone at Travel Advantage the $30 offer. She disconnected the chat. Nope, guess not.

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By: Thrifty Traveler’s Advantage – Is it a scam? « Desultory Thought

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:55:44 +0000

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By: Heather

Heather — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:22:53 +0000

Wow talk about an ongoing problem. My take – I called Thrifty Car Rental just a few days ago to ask a question about the shuttle service since I’d never had to use a shuttle service at a car rental before. The woman I initially talked to was a regular english speaking woman with no accent whatsoever and was generally helpful. She invited me to save an additional so much for reserving over the phone. I wasn’t trying to place the reservation so I kind of avoided that topic. Before hanging up she said “You don’t want to be transferred to find out about the additional savings and $20 in free gas?” I said sure, like whatever. The “transfer” part was the first oddity, like why couldn’t she just tell me about it? She transfers me to what sounds like a guy in a call center in India. He had an accent. And I have to say, before I go on ranting the guy had the most calm and reassuring tone I think I’ve ever heard from a customer service person. He starts into a total spiel about the 5% cash back and said he’d up the offer to $40 in gas coupons (’cause I’m so special, right?) and how it was only $1 to join and I could cancel anytime in 30 days and still keep the gas coupons. Oddities 2, 3 and 4 start with the calm tone – SUPER reassuring which always puts me a bit on edge when someone sounds suave. (Manmeet…) The trial for a dollar didn’t really throw me on the basis of being cheap, but rather why bother. Like there are plenty of free trials, and once it’s over it’s over. Well if they’re offering to basically pay me for coupons and crap why would they care about my dollar? Naturally – they gotta get that credit card number somehow so they can keep charging it. Then the guy was sooooo reassuring, like he totally was primed for me to get $40 in free gas for a buck and then cancel instantly. Because good business always involves selling $50 for $25. Above all, he was heavy into his spiel. Thinking there was still a possibility he could make my reservation, too, I told him no, no thanks. I am not into the idea of going for a free trial that involves me getting a bunch of freebies for a service I had absolutely no intention of keeping. Seriously, if I had the slightest inkling of definitely keeping the service I might’ve thought about it but to deliberately go in with the intent to immediately cancel wouldn’t feel right to me. But like I said, this guy REALLY wanted me to do just that. Anyway, I told him no thanks, and he went RIGHT back into his reassuring spiel. I said it again after he finished (he talked all the way through), and he went RIGHT back into he EXACT same lines! “It’ll only be a dollar and you can cancel anytime within 30 days and your service doesn’t start until a few days from now so blah blah”… I eventually had to hang up on him, which I normally wouldn’t do but I really hate aggressive sales tactics. This site only confirmed what I was already thinking. I hoped that wouldn’t be the case but you don’t try to force free stuff on people with that much fervor if you aren’t secretly up to something.

By: jim and wendy

jim and wendy — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:48:50 +0000

This Travelers Advantage is a complete scam. We signed up for it and did not get anything they promised. We were supposed to get a gas card for signing up that we did not get. we received no offers. We then canceled it and then was somehow signed up for Shoppers Advantage, which they deducted payment from our bank account. We still don’t even know what Shoppers Advantage is. we certainly did not sign up for it. We called and now canceled that. It will be interesting to see what we are signed up for next month and what is deducted from our bank account. DON’T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!! It is just one big scam I think we’ll report them to the BBB.

By: FoolsGold

FoolsGold — Tue, 31 May 2011 08:31:30 +0000

Yipes.
These spam posters can’t even learn that it Travelers not Travelrs.

By: Travelrs advantage | Greatfarestrans

Travelrs advantage | Greatfarestrans — Mon, 30 May 2011 23:49:25 +0000

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By: np

np — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 04:20:31 +0000

yjru used to give 50.00 coupons for traveling when ever you called them, now they send a coupon book and good every 4 months, to many people that dont understand english,make booking reservation errors which result in not getting your cash back bonus.