Marriott Rewards guts its social media points-earning scheme

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• SingingDwarf says:

  25 Jul25 July 07:08

  Interesting, thanks for the heads-up.

  Lots of companies still trying to get to grips with social media.

  You would have thought that someone would have done the maths before this launched though…

• Simon says:

  25 Jul25 July 07:42

  Although it takes longer I’m still doing it using the Twitter hash tags. I signed up not using my main Twitter account and I’ve got 4 tweets saved in notepad that earn 25 points, every day I delete my old tweets from Twitter and copy and paste the ones from notepad in, takes less than a minute and I’m getting 100 points a day at the moment.

  I’m sure there are tools you can get that could automatically send the tweets as well.

• Matthew says:

  25 Jul25 July 08:38

  I’m happy I managed to bag 8000pts from this so only had to buy 2000pts towards my 10000pt redemption that I booked before the category change! All this I knew about from here….so thank you! Don’t forget you can combine your wife/partner points with yours for free only when you are doing it to make a reservation.

• Czechoslovakia says:

  25 Jul25 July 09:39

  You win some, you loose some. Good while it lasted, and thanks Rob for the original post or I never would have known. OT again, twice now Marriott Budapest has credited my account with someone elses stays (I did stay there a year ago). Anyone any experience of incorrectly credited points being snatched back? Dare I use them and claim ignorance?

• Trickster says:

  25 Jul25 July 10:17

  What has annoyed me is they’ve not honoured the 250 points for my last few follows prior to the change, despite me receiving emails that say 250 points.

• signol says:

  25 Jul25 July 10:32

  I made calendar reminders to follow 8 on Twitter each month. Only last month only 4 paid out the points. I’m now sitting at 3k points which are pretty much worthless as most of my hotel stays are Hilton or IHG.

  • Fenny says:

    25 Jul25 July 19:40

    I did the same. Only managed 2K points in total, despite doing all the necessary links to FB and twitter and a whole bunch of FB likes.

• MDM says:

  25 Jul25 July 14:41

  Jeez, after I went to all the effort of opening a bogus Facebook account too!

  I have never been a Marriott fan and they are most certainly “unliked” and no longer followed by me 🙂

• ankomonkey says:

  25 Jul25 July 22:07

  I got an e-mail a week or two ago with a vastly expanded list of hotels to “like” in this promotion. I needed to earn 10k from this promotion for my redemption plan. Now sitting with 4k points and a real beef with Marriott…

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