bbinnsitters
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Going to Charleston, SC - looking for a nice place to stay for Sat. and Sunday nights - checked out B&B.com and saw they were having a promotion - buy $250 worth of GC, get $75 free - sounded like a good idea to me. Signed up (after checking to see if any that I wanted to go to accept them as I know there are a lot that don't). Found a few with availability even! Great! Push all the right buttons, sign up for the e-mail version since there is no time to send me one and they even say "Short on time? You can choose to have the gift card delivered instantly by email to the recipient, or email it to yourself to be printed at home — there's no need to wait for it to be shipped!"
..go to print it out and lo and behold there is a 7 day waiting period - I can't use them until 1/11/11! Well, that will do me no good whatsoever! So I called and sent them an e-mail admitting that it was my fault for not reading the fine print in the terms and conditions - response was "sorry - nothing we can do about it" End of discussion, have a nice day.
I'm sorry but that is definitely something they should have up front and center on their order page - you have to click onto "terms and conditions" twice before getting that particular information!
So, GillumHouse I am guilty of kinda waiting till the last minute to make a reservation - we have rooms booked at the hotel for Sat. and Sunday nights, but I thought it would be fun to stay downtown and since the hotels let you change at the last minute I was going to take advantage of that if I could. Now I don't know what to do!
Here comes the question to all of you out there who accept B&B.com GC's - would you, as an owner, allow me to use the card and just run it through on the 11th? Am I asking too much? Maybe if I find a place that is also disgruntled with B&B.com and if I'm really, really nice? My theory is you never know until you ask, but I wanted to get your opinions too.
..go to print it out and lo and behold there is a 7 day waiting period - I can't use them until 1/11/11! Well, that will do me no good whatsoever! So I called and sent them an e-mail admitting that it was my fault for not reading the fine print in the terms and conditions - response was "sorry - nothing we can do about it" End of discussion, have a nice day.
I'm sorry but that is definitely something they should have up front and center on their order page - you have to click onto "terms and conditions" twice before getting that particular information!
So, GillumHouse I am guilty of kinda waiting till the last minute to make a reservation - we have rooms booked at the hotel for Sat. and Sunday nights, but I thought it would be fun to stay downtown and since the hotels let you change at the last minute I was going to take advantage of that if I could. Now I don't know what to do!
Here comes the question to all of you out there who accept B&B.com GC's - would you, as an owner, allow me to use the card and just run it through on the 11th? Am I asking too much? Maybe if I find a place that is also disgruntled with B&B.com and if I'm really, really nice? My theory is you never know until you ask, but I wanted to get your opinions too.