It's that kind of greediness that killed the Eldorado card swipe. Before
people started swiping a half dozen cards at a time, the prizes were several
orders of magnitude better than they are now. You might remember cash awards of
up to $1000. I do. Since Eldorado has taken steps to devalue the awards to
such a level that it's not worth wasting time. I've actually asked Peppermill
marketing to take out the card swipe because, as a weekender, many of the
awards are mid-week which makes them worthless & a lot of the others have a lot of
restrictions which makes them worthless. In one sense, I don't mind the
Peppermill locals' bias because the Sunday drawing ties up 4 hrs which I have
now learned to spend elsewhere. Once a quarter, I try to use all my tickets but
don't care if it expires. That's my M.O. for Eldorado's Treasures drawing
too. If I happen to be there, I'll do it but I won't go just because I've closed
a path or even 4 paths.
It's a shame that every time a decent promotion comes up, there's always
someone who tries to think of a way to gain an abnormal edge. When they use that
edge & others start copying it, the promotion is destroyed. Most people
would have hewed the line if they could see what was going to happen. But a few
don't because they're so cynical about human nature that they believe that
someone's going to cheat so they may as well be the first to do it. Just beware
when you run into this attitude because they will apply this reasoning to
any deal & do unto you first so don't be surprised when it happens.
The casinos can correct this problem by removing the specific abusers from
their comp lists which they do in a few cases. However, the most frequent
solution is to punish all the customers. When this happens it encourages the
customers who weren't part of the problem to find alternatives. Standard method
of getting customers back is to mail out incentives to return which probably
won't work well in this economy. When you ask the casinos why they don't limit
the fix to just the abusers so that they don't have to go through this cycle
to get customers back, they don't have an answer except SOP!
In a message dated 8/19/2008 11:48:48 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
vpFREE_Reno@yahoogroups.com writes:
Get someone to swipe your family and pets cards for you when you're
out of town, that's what everybody else does. Same with the El Dorado
and Nugget card swipes.
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