The Vacation Deals Emails – Should You Answer Them?
If you’ve got an email address, chances are high that you’ve received emails that tell you that you can get a great vacation deal if you “just act now”! Often you’ll receive phone calls that are the same, asking if you want a vacation deal. Should you take the time to answer these emails and these phone calls about vacation deals, or should you avoid them entirely?
What the Emails Say
Some emails promise vacation deals that will astound and amaze you. One of the classic vacation deals is to book a vacation for you now and to get another vacation deal for a dollar or less. While this sounds great, you really need to check into the deal first. Often vacation deals like this charge you double or triple the price for the original deal making you pay more than you should, thereby saving you absolutely no money at all.
Other vacation deals that you receive by email say that you can save tons of money if you just book your deal early, and if you book your vacation deal through clicking on a link. While it is true that you can get a good vacation deal by booking early, it is also true that many of the links that you will click on bring you to an affiliate link, which actually charge you a percentage of whatever you’re booking, or a solid booking fee, before it allows you to book your vacation deal. This isn’t really a deal, as you’re getting charged to book the deal in the first place.
Other emails for vacation deals promise that you can go on a Caribbean cruise for nothing, and say that you’ve won a prize, giving you a great vacation deal. These emails can be one of two things – either they’re an affiliate link trying to trick you into going through their site, and making you pay outrageous fees in order to get your “prize”, thereby paying for the price of the ticket, or they’re a scam.
Scam Emails
There are tons of scam emails that come through your email any day of the week, and many of them trick you by promising you a vacation deal that looks too good to be true. If the vacation deal looks too good to be true, it probably is. These vacation deals that are promised aren’t real, and are merely a trick in order to get you to give out your credit card information to nefarious people. People have been scammed thousands of dollars through these types of email scams, never to see the money again.
It is a good idea to avoid any emails that come into your possession that promise a vacation deal that you can’t ignore. These vacation deals should be deleted quickly, as most of them are not honest vacation deals but are designed to scam you into spending money that you shouldn’t spend. The only vacation deals that you should act on are ones that you, yourself, have found through online deals or through travel agents.
Frank Demming
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what should i do about my job?
I really dont know what to do with my job anymore. I’m scared to quit because of the unemployment rate and i know its going to be hard to find a new job any time soon, to make matters worse i can only get a part time job now because i’m still in school until i graduate in may.
that being said, i work for a large real estate company and have been here for almost 4 years now. when i started i was told i would get a wage review every year, and that i would get a 401K and the company would match my contributions. since i’m only part time (35 hours, but still part time) i figured this was a good deal since i dont get vacation or sick time off.
the first year i got a 3% raise (woo hoo! 33 cents!!!). and even better, i got a bonus at christmas (completely unexpected). then the housing market started to tank. the company decided that they werent doing any wage reviews so no raises that year. and then they sent out an email saying there were no bonuses at christmas so instead they were giving us the day after christmas, and the day after newyear off. but since i’m part time, i’m paid hourly, so now i just LOST 14 hours of work because of that. it sucked, but my boss is wonderful and snuck an extra days pay into my paycheck to try to make up for it.
following year, same thing happened. and on top of that, the company decided to buy a huge brand-new building (billions of dollars) and make us all move to this location. it cost us soooo much money that they had to start laying off people. first all the managers had to take a 10% paycut, then all the receptionist had to become partime, and then they eventually laid them off (and a whole bunch of other people too). since our department is so small, i now get all the responsibilites of the recptionist on top of everything i already do and the CEO of the company just sent out a letter to us saying that because they had a loss they’ve decided to not contribute to our 401K’s for 2008.
i’ve been working my ass off, i havent taken a day off since august 2007 because i have to do the invoices, run all our ads, add & update all the listings for 17 different builders, and now i have to make sure the agents sales to recorded so they get paid, PLUS answer the phones. i’m so stressed out, but i am worried that i wont be able to find anyother job anyways if i do leave. my future mother in law was laid off almost a year ago and hasnt had even one job offer. when the receptionist got laid off here 2 weeks ago she went to a temp agency and they told her that 95% of the people coming in werent getting jobs because there just werent any…
help? suggestions? i dont want to sound like a whiney little brat, but i’m seriously going to have a break-down at this rate. i am hardly making ends meet and i feel like the company is just taking more and more and sucking me dry
breaks? i dont get those either. or health insurance. i’m lucky if i actually get to take my lunch break most of the time.
The only advice I can offer is: hang in there. It’s a tough time right now. Be glad you still have a job when so many other people don’t. But try to keep in mind that it’s not going to be like this forever. Things will get better eventually… hopfully sooner than later.
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What’s so hard about applying for jobs while your working. try to schedule interviews on Your breaks. You haven’t taken off yet so, you should have the time coming!
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Sounds like my job,was getting great hours, good money not anymore times are getting tough.I hate my job a lot but you need to do what the rest of us are doing suck it up and carry on with your life.And if that doesn’t work try looking for a job before you quit or either get laid off your other job.Good luck to you.God Bless America we need it!!
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