Trick to get 5% off Caesars properties if paying for them

[Dan Druff]

This doesn't apply to those looking for comps, but...

Go to caesars.com.

Go through the normal booking process.

When you get to the point where it's asking you to pay, close the window.

Wait a few hours.

For many dates/properties, it will email you an offer to get 5% off if you complete your booking.

It's a marketing trick to try to push the customer into completing a booking where he almost got to the end.

[redietz]

Thanks, Dan.

That's money in the bank.

[Alan Mendelson]

Good tip and try this same thing with other companies that have web stores. It's pretty common. My best deal came a couple of years ago when I signed up for an online dating site as a "free member" which gave me the opportunity to "look" but I could not email or make contact with any of the gals. I "looked" for about a month and then the email offers came. I resisted the email offers and each month the email offers got better and better. After about 6 months I got an offer that I couldn't refuse: pay for 1 month and get 11 months free. I took it.

On the other hand, there are times when if you look at some online offer and don't grab it then you run the risk that the price goes up. This is what happens when you try to buy certain web addresses or URLs. I found that if you put a web address in a shopping cart but don't actually buy it during the reserve time (which might be 24 hours) that when you do decide to buy it there is a "premium price" attached to it.

So, it can work both ways. Since Vegas has more hotel rooms than visitors, I think it's pretty safe that a discount coupon will be coming if you don't buy right away.

[Rob.Singer]

Really? All that for a possible 5% as well as a possible rate hike?? Isn't anyone else's time worth more than this type of scraping?

[Alan Mendelson]

Really? All that for a possible 5% as well as a possible rate hike?? Isn't anyone else's time worth more than this type of scraping?

What "possible rate hike"?

[Rob.Singer]

What "possible rate hike"?

I think you touched on it. Your next offer may indeed be higher, not lower. You never know.

[Dan Druff]

Really? All that for a possible 5% as well as a possible rate hike?? Isn't anyone else's time worth more than this type of scraping?

If you are booking anything but the last minute, it is unlikely the rate will jump on the same day.

This also doesn't take any time. You are just stopping your booking and continuing it later.

[james40]

If more people were this frugal, less people would be declaring bankruptcy. Just sayin....

[BiloxiBill]

If more people were this frugal, less people would be declaring bankruptcy. Just sayin....

You are correct James...then again, you are one of the few here with any sense

[james40]

I just find it ironic that people with poor money management skills would have a negative opinion of people with good money management skills.

[BiloxiBill]

Really? All that for a possible 5% as well as a possible rate hike?? Isn't anyone else's time worth more than this type of scraping?

Typical dickbrain retort from this degenerate putz

[redietz]

We can't all be aristocrats like you, Rob.

[Alan Mendelson]

Not having win goals and loss limits at positive expectation games is based on an illusion that you can't lose playing a positive expectation game.

[james40]

Not having win goals and loss limits at positive expectation games is based on an illusion that you can't lose playing a positive expectation game.

And that conversely, you can't win at a negative expectation game. The bell curve doesn't care about expectations.

[slingshot]

And that conversely, you can't win at a negative expectation game. The bell curve doesn't care about expectations.

Congrats on the win-and this post

[redietz]

Not having win goals and loss limits at positive expectation games is based on an illusion that you can't lose playing a positive expectation game.

It's a probabilistic world. You either want numbers for you or against you. No guarantees. No illusions. Win goals and stop losses on negative expectation games don't affect your bottom line unless they reduce your events played.

[Bill Yung]

It's a probabilistic world. You either want numbers for you or against you. No guarantees. No illusions.

The guarantee is in seeing what numbers are.

Integers invert to fractions; both of which beget irrationals, which invert to transcendentals; to beget the reals and hyperreals, which invert to the complex numbers; and finally to beget the sorts of numerical relationships in which the complex and other numbers may overlap or return the same values.

[Rob.Singer]

It's a probabilistic world. You either want numbers for you or against you. No guarantees. No illusions. Win goals and stop losses on negative expectation games don't affect your bottom line unless they reduce your events played.

Spoken by someone who really does not understand the game of vp.

I've played many +EV machines early on in my career, and many more -EV machines when those "positive" games were gone. The rate I won on +EV games was nearly identical to my rate of winning during all the -EV games years. And guess what--I used the exact same money management procedures throughout. So you're right--there are no illusions. And there are also no theories.

[Dan Druff]

BTW to calculate the above, use this website: http://vassarstats.net/binomialX.html

Enter the number of games for n, the number of minimum wins for the side you're calculating for k, and the probability for p.

So to figure out the 50,000 game example, I entered:

n: 50000
k: 25001 (the number of games Rob would have to win to be ahead of me)
p: 0.49 (49% probability to win each time)

[Alan Mendelson]

It's fascinating to me how people can never win at negative expectation games, and how they always win at positive expectation games.

Fortunately I only lose so I don't have to explain any wins to the math experts or to the lawyers of the ex wives.