Already paid for Premier yet Organiser still trying to sell me Plus

[Guest Snaxmuppet]

When I log in to my cruise organiser online I see adverts for Plus, for pre-paying CA etc and yet I have already paid for Premier.

 

Is this just a crap web site that doesn't take into account what I have already booked or does it suggest that there might be something wrong with my booking and that Premier is perhaps missed off the booking?

 

I am booking through a TA in the UK.

[Rick&Jeannie]

That's just the way the web page is set up...EVERYBODY sees that upgrade message regardless of what package you have...even Premier!  Yes...just a bit of additional programming could resolve that very easily.

[kywildcatfanone]

Always be upselling

[Guest Snaxmuppet]

Thanks. Although I have had Premier before I have never noticed that.

[Guest Snaxmuppet]

5 minutes ago, kywildcatfanone said:

Always be upselling

No point in trying to upsell something if you already have it. It is just annoying 🙂 

[Rick&Jeannie]

18 minutes ago, Snaxmuppet said:

No point in trying to upsell something if you already have it. It is just annoying 🙂 

Exactly! My background is in IT...I *know* just exactly how hard it would be to do another database query to see if a package has been booked and then show an appropriate page.  (By "how hard it would be"...I mean stupid simple!)

[Guest Snaxmuppet]

1 hour ago, Rick&Jeannie said:

Exactly! My background is in IT...I *know* just exactly how hard it would be to do another database query to see if a package has been booked and then show an appropriate page.  (By "how hard it would be"...I mean stupid simple!)

Techspeak follows... please feel free to ignore  🙂 

 

LOL! My background is as a database specialist, both as a programmer and DBA... I agree... stupid simple... and it probably wouldn't even require an additional DB query as the package would likely already have been read as part of building the customer object.

 

Just lazy programming IMO.

[voljeep]

25 minutes ago, Snaxmuppet said:

Techspeak follows... please feel free to ignore  🙂 

 

LOL! My background is as a database specialist, both as a programmer and DBA... I agree... stupid simple... and it probably wouldn't even require an additional DB query as the package would likely already have been read as part of building the customer object.

 

Just lazy programming IMO.

took less than 5 minutes for me to create the punch cards needed for this ...🦄

[bosswench]

1 hour ago, Snaxmuppet said:

Techspeak follows... please feel free to ignore  🙂 

 

LOL! My background is as a database specialist, both as a programmer and DBA... I agree... stupid simple... and it probably wouldn't even require an additional DB query as the package would likely already have been read as part of building the customer object.

 

Just lazy programming IMO.

My husband is a developer for a major corporation.  *Carnival Corporation IT SUCKS" is heard  daily and loudly in my house. 

[MacMadame]

20 hours ago, voljeep said:

took less than 5 minutes for me to create the punch cards needed for this ...🦄

You joke but I once had to write an entire program on punch cards. What a nightmare.

[voljeep]

11 minutes ago, MacMadame said:

You joke but I once had to write an entire program on punch cards. What a nightmare.

Not a joke at all - that's how I also had to learn programming - Cobol? maybe - punch out the stack of cards, then run them thru - until the dreaded error came up.

 

Now I heard of some people being in the college business lab, pulling out nearly completed program out of the garbage can - recreating the cards, etc, etc, etc - nah, that never happened ...

[MacMadame]

Yes, COBOL. Time-sharing on a mainframe. For a paid job. 

 

Now I feel old. 😄 

[Guest Snaxmuppet]

4 hours ago, MacMadame said:

You joke but I once had to write an entire program on punch cards. What a nightmare.

I learned to program in 1979. It was a government run training course, 6 months using PL/1, DOS/VS. PCs and screens weren't around for everyday use so we wrote our code onto coding sheets which went off to a data entry agency who created a punched card deck. We got that back next day and sent it off to a data centre which ran the program for us. We received the output on the wide, continuous-flow print-out the next day. If there were errors we started the process again... so a compile and test cycle took about 3 days so we could only get one or two test runs a week... It was a long process.

 

A few years later I got a job using COBOL, DOS/VSE and VM/CMS... I loved that job.

 

Those were the days 🙂 

 

Sorry to digress 🙂 

Edited December 29, 2023 by Snaxmuppet

[MacMadame]

It was definitely a long process. LOL Our company did have what they called "screen accounts" but they cost slightly more than using the punch cards and my boss was cheap. It ended up costing him more in the long run than if he'd just given me a screen account.