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Wow... my suspicion meter got pegged reading that one. If I was the slot play manager, I'd wonder if one of the slot techs had figured out a way to pile up some unearned points that at some point he or she could appropriate.

Mike

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    Posted by: "krallison416@aol.com" krallison416@aol.com krallison1
    Date: Thu Jan 8, 2009 11:07 pm ((PST))

Yesterday I played for a few hours at Main Street Station. The card went in, the reading, as usual, on the screen was 'good luck.' However, when I went to get my animal (good thing I did), I was told I had 'not enough points.' "How many?" I asked. 'Well, none,' said the boothling.
So this morning I was back and talking to the gentleman who manages slot play (can't remember his name, very nice man) who, once he knew the number of that machine, was able to track the play on it and discover that an account 'that belongs to no one' got my points. He retrieved them for me and was also working on the tier points after that.
The lesson? Check each and every session to be sure the points are accumulating.
I guess I should have known that but somehow I've always just drifted along on the assumption that things go as expected.
Karen

"She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot." - Mark Twain

#2

I don't like being that suspicious, but my thoughts were
identical to those expressed by Mike.

I have heard of a similiar situation happening in the past.
In that case a casino employee "borrowed" a player's points
for personal use.

I have also had a strong feeling that I was the victim of the
same type of egregious action in a non-LV casino, a couple of
years ago. My "antenna" was aroused when, after recording my
point total from the card reader prior to retiring for the
night, somehow the points had "vanished" from my account the
by the next morning.

I was able to get the missing points restored by a slot
supervisor, so I did not persue determining the reason for
this occurence. But I had a strong feeling, from observing the
demeanor of the supervisor, that something other than a
"computer glitch", had caused the problem.
~Babe~

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Mike <polymike.rtfm@...> wrote:

Wow... my suspicion meter got pegged reading that one. If I
was the slot play manager, I'd wonder if one of the slot techs had
figured out a way to pile up some unearned points that at some point
he or she could appropriate.
Mike

Posted by: "krallison416@..." krallison416@... krallison1

Yesterday I played for a few hours at Main Street Station.
The card went in, the reading, as usual, on the screen was
'good luck.' However, when I went to get my animal (good
thing I did), I was told I had 'not enough points.'
"How many?" I asked. 'Well, none,' said the boothling.

So this morning I was back and talking to the gentleman who
manages slot play ...... was able to track the play on it and
discover that an account 'that belongs to no one' got my
points...........