Crack the Case

[straitman]

I can confirm the same experience as oz_mark...

another +1 here.

 

[QF WP]

Awesome. Saved myself 25% on the rates. Have to walk a total of 300m to change hotels!

 

[JohnK]

Still no news of my case for Priority Club to honour my 10th and final stay for Crack the Case. I guess they are hesitant in paying out ~95,000 PC points.

I really cannot understand why I have to continually chase up loyalty programs to receive what is rightfully mine....

 

[Mal]

Oops, I seem to have made a mistake. I somehow ended up with three different hotel stays on the Gold Coast one night towards the end of the month.



Two are prepaid, one is a 25% off rate. Average cost around $125 each.

The nights (when posted) will finalise my challenge. The ~150K points I get for finishing the challenge (to me at least) is worth more than $375, and I should get a heap of points for the three stays.

-- Edit, changed one of the rates to be for the night before. Adds $13/stay average, but will make things a little easier (having three different hotel check-ins for one night is a little hard to manage/wasteful )

 

[QF WP]

CtG posting has finally happened and CP Perth now showing, thus updated

 Date     Property              Nights       Stay Sat     5 Brands
Current                           2              0             2
28 April  CP Perth                3              0             2
 7 May    CP Adelaide (2 rooms)   5              2 (CC)        2 (waiting to post)
11 May    HI Ex Wimbledon Sth     6                            3  
15 May    IC Burswood             7                            4
16 May    HI Burswood             8                            4
29 May    Indigo Paddington UK    9                            5 (CC)
31 May    CP London Heathrow     10 (CC)

2 Saturday night rooms in ADL are showing on PC account, so now have to wait for CtC to catch up.

 

[serfty]

I am a single night¹ away from an additional 131K PC points.

The web site is currently showing I have still to "opt in for emails", but I have already received the 10K bonus point for that. ...

¹ Out of 10 needed

Done the night ... changed my bigpond.com address to bigpond.com.au and 4 latches are now showing as unlocked:

The night has now posted on PC.com, awaiting the CTC revelation.

 

[QF WP]

Nicely done serfty! That'll be a nice boost to your account balance

 

[markis10]

Nicely done serfty! That'll be a nice boost to your account balance

Maybe a months holiday in Cairns or Darwin is in order ,CTC seems to post a week after it shows on PC.com.

 

[QF WP]

Both ADL CP Sat nights have posted in my PC account with some points and as non-qualifying (as expected - they were F&F rates

). I can wait a week markis10.

 

[Flashback]

7 May CP Adelaide (2 rooms) 5 2 (CC) 2 (waiting to post) 11 May HI Ex Wimbledon Sth 6 3 15 May IC Burswood 7 4

That's a rather quick trip abroad Almost as crazy as my 3.5 day trip to Aus!

 

[serfty]

STILL WAITING - sort of?

Done the night ... changed my bigpond.com address to bigpond.com.au and 4 latches are now showing as unlocked:
...
The night has now posted on PC.com, awaiting the CTC revelation.

A transaction for unlocking my last latch has appeared on my PC account:

[B]  17 May 2011  CRACK THE CASE-NIGHTS         5600 pts.[/B]

  16 Dec 2010  CRACK THE CASE-BRANDS         4400 pts.

  16 Dec 2010  CRACK THE CASE-WEEKENDS       3300 pts.

   5 Oct 2010  CRACK THE CASE-OPT-IN BONUS  10000 pts.

   5 Oct 2010  CRACK THE CASE-SURVEY BONUS   1000 pts.

But that's it.

No acknowledgement on www.priorityclub.com/crackthecase.

Nor have the bonus points yet appeared.

It's still showing that I have not yet completed the required nights.

 

[JohnK]

Hmmm. Crack the Case is still showing incomplete for me even though I completed the 10 nights over 5 weeks ago.

 

[serfty]

Hmmm. Crack the Case is still showing incomplete for me even though I completed the 10 nights over 5 weeks ago.

Hmmm ... have all the Unlocking bonii posted like mine have?

 

[JohnK]

No. According to Priority Club I have only stayed 9/10 nights.

I have lost count of the number of times I have contacted them. I sent them an email recently and received a response last Friday (5 days ago) that it was going to be fixed within 48 hours. I noticed a new entry for my last stay but nothing has been fixed.

I don't believe they know how to fix it. Sent another email.

 

[QF WP]

Hmmm, points showing on PC.com;

Date        Activity Description      Earnings      Total Points   
17 May 2011 CRACK THE CASE-WEEKENDS   3300 pts.      [B]3300 pts.[/B]

but no action at CtC for my missing 5 nights, 2 Saturdays (which unlock my 2nd case) and 1 additional brand. Sure, I don't expect my 2 nights in Perth this week to post yet on CtC (as they haven't on PC.com yet either).

But I know what is the true state of play. Just hurry up your processing PC. A bit poor IMHO

 

[JohnK]

Finally! Welcome to Platinum Elite status.

Date        Activity Description      Earnings      Total Points 
17 May 2011 CRACK THE CASE-PROMOTION  94000 pts.    [B]94000 pts.[/B]  
17 May 2011 CRACK THE CASE-NIGHTS     5600 pts.[B]     5600 pts.[/B]

Hmmm. Now have over 250,000 PC points....

 

[serfty]

Finally! Welcome to Platinum Elite status.
...
Hmmm. Now have over 250,000 PC points....

Good Stuff ...

Aside from Hotel stays, those point can be converted to up to 50,000 Airline points/miles on QF, SQ, AA, CX, BA ... (full list)

Now my email registration latch has closed, but the the stay latch is unlocked!

I have changed the email address and now have to "wait 48".

 

[markis10]

All I have to say is show me the money, with the last latch yet to deposit its points or the bonus into my account:

 

[straitman]

All I have to say is show me the money, with the last latch yet to deposit its points or the bonus into my account:

I also had to stay at 5 brands and as that was not practical I simple did not try and this actually caused me to divert stays away from the IC group :!:

 

[JohnK]

Good Stuff ...

Aside from Hotel stays, those point can be converted to up to 50,000 Airline points/miles on QF, SQ, AA, CX, BA ... (full list)

The Airlines points/miles are a good fallback option although it is shame that BMI is not a partner.