More Promotions

Silverton is running an “Earn and Win” promo in August on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.  Earn 100 points for a tall Starbucks drink and 500 points will get you a $20 food credit. You can redeem at the new Redemption Kiosk located next to the slot club desk.  Hopefully that will help you avoid long lines at the desk itself.  We don’t play there anymore but really like their restaurants, which we can still enjoy with gift cards earned in the past.

Hooters has launched a new tiered players club.  I’m always interested in the subject of tier names.  Bottom tier here is the unique and very appropriate “Orange.”   Then it goes up in such a very ordinary way:  Gold, Platinum, and Black Diamond.  Why not some Owl levels – “Owl Junior,” “Owl Senior,” “King Owl”????

The R-J reports a new place to get a free meal on your birthday – the Fat Bar on the Strip – a complete meal that includes a medium hamburger, fries, and a medium drink.  Located across from City Center, this traditional Fatburger on the inside has an only-in-Vegas bar on the outside.  Reports indicate this is a great place to party 24 hours a day!

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A Promotion Warning – one that I have to keep giving because even I myself sometimes forget it:  Read the fine print and ask questions if promotion details aren’t clear.  An offer may add the phrase “May not be combined with another offer.”  Okay, we may know that we usually can’t combine a senior discount with a coupon discount to “double-dip.”  But what if you have a coupon for $10 off a meal at the buffet and they have a special all-month “sale” price on the prime-rib dinner on Tuesday nights.  You might be surprised that you can’t “combine” these two things – they might take the $10 off the much-higher regular price rather than off the “sale” price.

I like it when the fine print gives all the details of a promotion.  Tuscany is a good example of this in their August mailer.  They are running a “Staycation” promotion – buy 1 night and get 1 free.  But they specify you can use this offer only by “buying” the first night with your points.  They also say “subject to availability.”  But then they add this necessary detail – “Higher room rate is charged.”  Usually when you use your points you get a discounted rate and you might go in thinking you would be charged this reduced rate for that first night.  Reading the fine print will save you from being disappointed.  This detail dilutes the value of this promotion but kudos to Tuscany for letting you know this upfront.

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2 Responses to More Promotions

  1. Ron says:

    Jean. PM. did you get the 7x for VP offer from harrahs
    Laughin for 8/20-22/13

  2. Kevin Lewis says:

    Not really honoring a coupon is a slimy dodge that no casino dared try, because of the ill will that policy engendered–until Stations started doing it. Then it became “acceptable” all over town. The really appalling thing about only applying the coupon to the higher price (what the buffet costs on OTHER days) is ABSOLUTELY ILLEGAL for two reasons. One, it is illegal to charge one customer one price and another customer a different price for the same good or service offered at the same time. That’s called “illegal price discrimination.” When they say your coupon only applies to a higher price THAT THEY AREN’T CHARGING ANYONE ELSE BUT YOU, that fits the definition. Second, a coupon is an offer, which constitutes a legally binding contract if the offer is accepted (i.e., the customer attempts to redeem the coupon). By changing the conditions stated on the coupon (like a $10-off coupon not really being such because they artificially raise the price the $10 is discounted from), they are committing fraud, pure and simple. But because this is Nevada and the party committing the fraud is a CASINO, such a crime is perfectly OK in the eyes of the “law.”

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