Lamest casino offer so far
Only good between 11 PM on November 20 and 9 AM on November 21. Take this card to the cashier's cage and receive EIGHT DOLLARS CASH!!!!!
So, only good for ten hours...in the middle of the night...and I get eight whole bucks. Yowsa, I'm sure making the trip out there for THAT!
Anyone else ever received an offer this chintzy and this restricted?
Quote: mkl654321This is so bad, it's funny: my local Injun casino just sent me a FREE CASH offer:
Only good between 11 PM on November 20 and 9 AM on November 21. Take this card to the cashier's cage and receive EIGHT DOLLARS CASH!!!!!
So, only good for ten hours...in the middle of the night...and I get eight whole bucks. Yowsa, I'm sure making the trip out there for THAT!
Anyone else ever received an offer this chintzy and this restricted?
No, but wouldn't your high level of intellect tell you your offer is commensurate with your play level? I've never understood the mindset of players who want more than what they deserve. Oh wait....they're the losers!
Quote: mkl654321This is so bad, it's funny: my local Injun casino just sent me a FREE CASH offer:
Only good between 11 PM on November 20 and 9 AM on November 21. Take this card to the cashier's cage and receive EIGHT DOLLARS CASH!!!!!
So, only good for ten hours...in the middle of the night...and I get eight whole bucks. Yowsa, I'm sure making the trip out there for THAT!
Anyone else ever received an offer this chintzy and this restricted?
I get offers all the time for stuff, like beach umbrellas and blenders and the like. Its always on a Sat and you have o get there between noon and 4pm. I've gotten there as early as 2pm and they are always out of the item. They will give me $10 or $15 credit on my card, big whoop. The really cheap stuff, like sets of glasses, they never run out of. Smell a rat here? Where can you buy a huge beach umbrella for $15?
Quote: teddysAt least it's hard cash and not freeplay. That's rare.
Yeah, the Potawatomi Casino in Milwaukee stopped giving away free cash about a year ago. Coupons are good for match play only, and points earned on their card now are convertible only into slot play.
The casino is right downtown, and an employee told me too many people were walking in, redeeming coupons for cash, and walking out.
I was one of them.
You use to get a hard copy (mailer), and whatever play you earned was there for the month. Now, I'm starting to see more and more of the variable offers on the mailers. Such that, differing amounts may be there when you swipe your card. Now if I decide not to play at that casino the next month, it may very well be reflected in these variable offers. It's possible that they only use it to award for extra play, but it's hard to tell sometimes. Whereas before, if I decided to not put in any extra play, I would get the offer on the mailer regardless.
Quote: EvenBobI get offers all the time for stuff, like beach umbrellas and blenders and the like. Its always on a Sat and you have o get there between noon and 4pm. I've gotten there as early as 2pm and they are always out of the item. They will give me $10 or $15 credit on my card, big whoop. The really cheap stuff, like sets of glasses, they never run out of. Smell a rat here? Where can you buy a huge beach umbrella for $15?
Let me guess, Stations? My second choice would be the Hilton.
Its like a shopping mall offering donut-holes and coffee at an early opening hour. Sure people show up and start their shopping early, but its usually just the ones who were going to be there anyway.
The casino wants to entice someone to come in and lose all their money, but the casino isn't offering much of an inducement at all. Come get this carrot. We offer it at a weird hour because things are real slow then.
Swipe a card? Heck, any of you get stuck in line behind one of these Retirement Home Card Swipers? They got to swipe 'bout twenty or thirty cards ... just to make sure all those who are still back at the retirement home get another lousy entry in the month-long promotion about winning a car at the HappyWampum casino. And if you go and swipe your card only the one time that you actually are at the casino, you got one entry. All the retirees in the home got thirty entries. Then everybody gets bused to the Happy Wampum on the night of the drawing since you gotta actually be there to win.
It used to be a free dinner, then a free beer mug, than a free bottle opener, then a birthday card, then an email birthday card then ------
"Come and celebrate your birthday at the casino".
Just an invite to visit the casino-----WTF!!!!
Now I get an email wishing me a Happy Birthday. I usually get it two weeks after my Birthday.
My lamest casino offer was another local casino that offered me a free 99-cent entree on my birthday. All I had to do was show up, wait through the player's club line, and fill out the necessary paperwork. For 99 cents.
Quote: IbeatyouracesI didn't get anything for mine and it was just a few weeks ago so you should be happy you got anything at all.
I thought it was insulting. It was like saying "Spend your money at our casino".
I hope this makes you feel better
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
That sounds like a computer problem. The programmers is probable 18 years old and thinks no one gets to be 80. My local casino upgraded their system and ignored customers with 7 digit accounts vs the new 8 digit account and to top it off they took a 3 day weekend(outsourced) and could not put us in the system for a big weekend giveaway.Quote: FleaStiffOne Mississippi casino seems to have cut off an acquaintance of mine upon her reaching her 80th anniversary of birth. She no longer gets room offers, freeplay or anything at all. They had been getting increasingly stingy but now seem to have dumped a very loyal slots customer.
Quote: FleaStiffOne Mississippi casino seems to have cut off an acquaintance of mine upon her reaching her 80th anniversary of birth. She no longer gets room offers, freeplay or anything at all. They had been getting increasingly stingy but now seem to have dumped a very loyal slots customer.
The casinos may offer you a free lunch, but there is still truly no "free lunch." I've suddenly been cut off from offers lots of times, even at places where I played hard. This could either be a glitch (I doubt because of being 80), or somebody at that casino decided to crack down on offers. This kind of things happens all the time.
Quote: WizardThe casinos may offer you a free lunch, but there is still truly no "free lunch." I've suddenly been cut off from offers lots of times, even at places where I played hard. This could either be a glitch (I doubt because of being 80), or somebody at that casino decided to crack down on offers. This kind of things happens all the time.
If you played hard at advantage type play, I can understand. However, in my own experience, sometimes the only thing that seems to matter to the casino is that you took more from them in the last month than you left. This is really STUPID if one is clearly temporarily winning at games that makes the casino money, but I would SWEAR on (well on anything) that's what they do sometimes.
For instance, if any casino is penalizing ANY of the their slot players for winning too much, that place is run by idiots who should be FIRED, and then be given jobs shoveling manure, or something that doesn't require thought.
hah, I'm worked up a bit over this.
Quote: rxwineIf you played hard at advantage type play, I can understand. However, in my own experience, sometimes the only thing that seems to matter to the casino is that you took more from them in the last month than you left. This is really STUPID if one is clearly temporarily winning at games that makes the casino money, but I would SWEAR on (well on anything) that's what they do sometimes.
For instance, if any casino is penalizing ANY of the their slot players for winning too much, that place is run by idiots who should be FIRED, and then be given jobs shoveling manure, or something that doesn't require thought.
hah, I'm worked up a bit over this.
Yeah, casinos STILL (despite the fact that, as you mentioned, it is an extremely stupid thing to do) punish players for winning in the short term at negative expectation games. I maintained an informal grapevine on who got what mailer when I lived in Vegas, and several times people who were primarily slot players saw their offers take a nosedive the next few months after they hit a big jackpot.
One casino I played in a lot, just video poker, was sending me $30 free play a week, $50 food credit, and a couple of show tickets per month, like clockwork. I was playing about $20,000 coin-in per month, and as luck would have it, barely ahead for the prior twelve months. Then I took that free play one day, and because all the decent machines were in play and I wanted to get the hell out of there, I ran the $30 through a Keno machine. Well, naturally (!) I hit 7 out of 7 for $3,500, and that killed my mailers for the next three months (NO free play, and a single 2-for-1 buffet coupon!). I checked with friends who played at that casino, and their mailers hadn't changed.
Of course, such mailer massacres can be the coincidental result of an overall reduction in what the casino is sending out. That's why you need to cross-check with other players, and see if they also got hit, or it was just you.
Quote: IbeatyouracesMotorcity in Detroit ran a "Nightowl" promo a couple of saturdays ago and is doing so again in 2 weeks where "invited guests" go between midnight and 4 am to swipe your card to get $5-$250 in freeplay and one lucky person had $25,000 cash loaded on their account. You have to get a postcard in the mail to qualify. I dont have to tell you that 99% of the people that swipe only get the $5 in freeplay.
And it's likely the $25,000 card belongs to someone who has not swiped their card, or visited the casino for a very long time, and possibly only been there once since they, perhaps, reside overseas.
