IHG Rewards Club recently unveiled their new top tier elite status, called Spire Elite. The benefits of the new status are limited, though I certainly commend IHG for at least offering something extra to their most frequent guests. IHG has been sending out new Spire Elite cards, except it appears as if they may have…
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Share your questions, experiences, and thoughts below.
1. Gives new meaning to "spire".
2. Who picks up the phone bill for the inadvertent calls to the phone sex chat line?
"Hi there, what's your name honey?"
"Josh"
"Hi Josh. This is Bambie from uh...IHG..that's it. Now sweetie, why don't you read off that credit card # and while you're at it, big boy, for security reasons, can you give me your social security number, your date of birth, your mother's maiden name, and your full address"
"Uh duh, ok, uh, Bambie, when do I get my free night?
"That'll cost you, Joshy"
"But I thought $49 covered it"
"Click"
Westjet had a similar problem several years ago. Their number is 1-888-WESTJET so that it is easy to remember. While they never published it incorrectly, people mis-remembered it as 1-800, which turned out to be a phone-sex line.
Right after moving, I had to make a few phone calls to our garbage pickup service. After the the 2nd-3rd time, I figured I had the number memorized. One afternoon, I called them from work. Turns out, I had inverted a few numbers and ended up calling a phone sex line. I hung up superfast and only after checking the number, realized I should've known that the number ended 9696 and not 6969 - OOPS!
What's all the fuss about.......sex chat is an elite benefit and has been for some time............Didn't Ray Donovan clue you in?