hotel chain points & someone else

[DrPizza]

I keep getting emails updating me of all the points I have. There's a hotel chain I spent 2 nights at a year ago. Shortly afterward, I received an email with my preferred customer points. Since then, it *seems* that someone else with my name travels quite a bit & connected his points to my email - our points are adding together? Else, gradually, my 2 nights has morphed into quite a few more nights. (And a lot more points.)

Right now, "I" have enough points to stay 4 nights free. Hmmmmm. Also, there seems to be some connection to real estate as I keep getting emails that look nothing at all like spam; they seem to be genuine emails that went to the wrong account. I wonder if he simply doesn't know his own email account?

The question is - do I try to clear up the merging of our accounts (I might have enough points for one free night), or do I find someplace nice to go for a few nights? If he's like me, he didn't even know about these points & rewards system. And, I haven't got a clue how to unmerge our points - I don't know his real email address.

 

[rh71]

what does it say after you login to your acct for these points?

 

[rcpratt]

Sounds like too much work. Take your good fortune and enjoy it.

 

[cronos]

Some people just genuinely don't remember their e-mail addresses. This happens to me a lot.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Do you have gmail by chance? There's this bug where it ignores the dot. Maybe yours has no dot and his is the exact same as yours except with a dot? So the email actually ends up in your inbox.

 

[sjwaste]

How many doctors Pizza are there in the Hilton Honors program, anyway?

 

[Perknose]

How many doctors Pizza are there in the Hilton Honors program, anyway?

It's an unusual honorary, self-given doctorate degree, but more common than you might suppose. Think of it as the NE equivalent of a Kentucky Colonel. We take our pie seriously.

From a philosophical pov, the many Doctors Pizza are like pepperoni slices floating on a sea of cheese. Each one is an individual, but from a hungry man's perspective, they look and taste the same.

Om nom nom and out.

 

[Tim]

You're the elite member, you tell us what you should do with the points.

 

[cronos]

Do you have gmail by chance? There's this bug where it ignores the dot. Maybe yours has no dot and his is the exact same as yours except with a dot? So the email actually ends up in your inbox.

Eh.. this again. It's not a bug. It's a feature that has been there ever since GMail was out. GMail by design ignores dots anywhere in the middle of your username. If someone already own the full username without any dots, nobody else can register the exact same username with a dot or dots in the middle. The same thing if someone already registers abcd.efgh@gmail.com, then abcdefgh@gmail.com will be unavailable.

What happened is people forget that they don't own abcd@gmail.com because they had abcd@hotmail.com/aol.com/etc/

 

[notposting]

Email back one of the people who have emailed you and find out who they are dealing with...do the right thing

 

[DrPizza]

They're apparently dealing with someone with the same name - I've emailed several of them back when it appeared that what they sent me was important. But, I have no idea what the email account is of the person they're dealing with - is there a middle initial in there? Is it supposed to be yahoo? Etc.