Is there a way to get CASH with non refundable OBC in casino?

[Ashland]

I hope this works on Celebrity Eclipse. I have $900.00 OBC from them for my May 2023 cruise.

Edited November 21, 2022 by Ashland

[Mapleleafforever]

19 minutes ago, PWP-001 said:

I can tell you first hand that at another cruise line, they did care about this issue.  They discovered that  their members at the highest level of their loyalty program discovered they could stack OBC's for shareholder benefit, veteran/military OBC, on top of the generous OBC offers at the time just to sail.  They would spend absolutely NOTHING on board, then cash out all the OBC through the casino, disembarking in some cases with MORE MONEY that what they laid out for the cruise.

 

Why do I speak out against the practice?  Because it threatens to restrict my legitimate use of Room Charging to gamble. 

Boo hoo.

[molly361]

48 minutes ago, CFLRetired said:

So I totally confused.  Can someone answer this?  Would I be okay to follow the steps to charge $500 to my room at a slot machine by setting up my account and playing 10% or so of my $500 then cash out?  If so, can this be repeated daily?

 

Thank you in advance.

There's a daily limit of $300 per day.  If you don't play a portion of it you will be locked out from doing it the next day.  I'm not sure how much you have to play

[brownc424]

16 hours ago, PWP-001 said:

If anyone wonders why cruise lines may "put on a smiley face" when speaking of this website but internally hate the site, consider this thread to be good justification.  

 

Non-refundable OBC is intended to be used for PURCHASES of good and services onboard including food, beverage, merchandise, and excursions.  Anyone who believes otherwise is just kidding themselves.

 

Place yourself in the shoes of a cruise line executive, reading this discussion.  How would you feel about passengers sharing information on how to cheat your company, and how would you feel about the website that allows this type of discussion?

 

You've got some brown stuff on your nose, maybe you should take a step back and wipe that off. If the Cruise lines cared, they'd close the "loopholes", but the truth is that they're making money on people who think they're being clever. It gets people into the casino who would never go otherwise.

[brillohead]

6 hours ago, molly361 said:

There's a daily limit of $300 per day.  If you don't play a portion of it you will be locked out from doing it the next day.  I'm not sure how much you have to play

It's $500 on Oasis... and they didn't lock out someone who didn't play any of it two weeks ago.  He did it at least twice, maybe three times.

[LittleJoefromKokomo]

3 hours ago, brillohead said:

It's $500 on Oasis... and they didn't lock out someone who didn't play any of it two weeks ago.  He did it at least twice, maybe three times.

Only 500? I thought it was much higher. 

[PWP-001]

6 hours ago, brownc424 said:

 

You've got some brown stuff on your nose, maybe you should take a step back and wipe that off. If the Cruise lines cared, they'd close the "loopholes", but the truth is that they're making money on people who think they're being clever. It gets people into the casino who would never go otherwise.

Either you're a poor judge of character or you don't understand the concept of brown-nosing.

 

In no way am I attempting to curry favor with RCI or any line; I do that through my play in the casino.

 

When discussions like this, facilitated by a website, proliferate. it can be viewed   as promotion of a practice that we know costs the line money.  Sure, if one or two people figured it out on their own --and kept it to themself--  then maybe even the line wouldn't know.  But when continued discussions are permitted, word spreads and the costs grow as more and more people take advantage of the loophole that you call it.  

 

 

 

[SummerBeee]

This didn’t work on Grandeur 

[Tlbecker1]

4 hours ago, SummerBeee said:

This didn’t work on Grandeur 

We were on the Grandeur in September for B3B and we did it. 

[brillohead]

6 hours ago, SummerBeee said:

This didn’t work on Grandeur 

What exactly didn't work?  Were the slot machines not set up to do a room charge???

[SummerBeee]

1 hour ago, brillohead said:

What exactly didn't work?  Were the slot machines not set up to do a room charge???

Couldn’t do a room charge. Might have picked a bad machine though. 

[brillohead]

2 minutes ago, SummerBeee said:

Couldn’t do a room charge. Might have picked a bad machine though. 

Sounds like it, since others were able to in September.