Rack ‘Em Up
So June’s post isn’t really a Musing, though Capital One, Delta Airlines and all the other affiliates will most likely find it, most amusing. And for that, we think it’s all a conspiracy. Read on.
Once upon a time….Pitch! had a gazillion “Hassle Free Rewards Points”. We gals here at Pitch! thought: GREAT, lets trade in some of our gazillion points for travel. So we rang up Capital One.
Capital One: Congratulations Pitch! you have a gazillion “Hassle Free Reward Points” how would you like to use them.
Pitch!: We’d love to get plane tickets from here to there.
Capital One: No problem.
Pitch!: Fabulous. Where do we start?
Capital One: Well, $350 including all taxes & fees = 25,000 “Hassle Free Rewards Points”. But it doesn’t look like we have any flights available at that price for where you want to travel. I’ll check the next level of prices and points…nope…nope again.
Pitch!: Oh. Well, we have a gazillion “Hassle Free Rewards Points”, so there must be something that’ll work.
Capital One: Let’s see here, the only thing we have available is for 2 gazillion “Hassle Free Rewards Points” and unfortunately you only have 1 gazillion. Is there anything else I can help you with today?
Pitch!: So you mean to tell us, after we’ve been on the phone for, lets see, over an hour and a half, there is no such thing as “Hassle Free Rewards Points”?
Capital One: Yep. Is there anything else I can do for you today?
Pitch!: Click.
Then we had the same Groundhog Day conversation with American Express’s “Membership Rewards Program” and we both felt like Bill Murray trapped in a bad movie.
Don’t even get us started on Wells Fargo, for that you can go to our Twitter updates.
Happy Trails until July.
