Circus Circus Slot Tournament Sneaky Offer

I know that MRI considers this "the red headed step child" in their system but I posted this under this board as they are part of this family.

Received an offer in the mail for a $25K Rakin' in the Moo-Lah slot tournament in May. It's likely I won't be in town during that time but had a read anyway and noticed the dreaded asterisk. I flipped it over and looked at the small print. In addition to the normal legal mumbo jumbo, I'd seen a statement that I had to read a few times before it made sense:

"Complimentary food and beverage if applicable will be deducted from your Comp Dollar Account".

WTF???? LOL

I'm more convinced that as casinos go to banked comps, this will increasingly be the norm. Just thought I'd pass it along. I'm sure something similar to this has or will creep up in other offers you may receive....please beware!

Dan

P.S. Barb is goofing on me ask laughing that I actually admitted that I had an offer from Circus Circus! LOL

It certainly is increasingly important to read the fine print these days!

This isn't new at Circus Circus. I've played there the past couple of years and any offer that I have received from them that includes food comps has the asterisk with the comment "Complimentary food and beverage if applicable will be deducted from your Comp Dollar Account." If you notice, the food comp offers usually vary in amount depending on your comp balance at the time the offer was issued. Ridiculous in my opinion since you already earned it and it's on your account anyway.

Lucky,

This is my first hard copy offer from them so I wasn't aware that this was status quo for them. Wonder why they would even mention a food comp.....just don't include it in the offer and no one will be pissed when they believe that they have a certain level of food comp only to realize that it's coming out of their "bank".

It's a pretty BS system to me.....sounds like you agree.

Dan

This sounds like what was described in this recent thread. Doesn't Harrah's -- pardon me -- Caesars do the same thing, though, where they drain your comp balance before they consider approving additional comps?

Since my original post, we had a friend who stayed this past weekend at MC and had a similar experience.

He got a regular room and either two or four low level Lady Gaga tickets. He ran $78K coin in vp and played BJ for 4 hours @ $100 avg. bet.

When he went to check out, the host wouldn't comp anything descretionary to include his resort fee. The offer he was on didn't include food, limo, or free play. All the charges came off his express comp account. Ironically, we had a conversation over lunch on Saturday about this and Barb suspected that this would happen.

In the end, he walked down to Cosmo, met a host there, gave him his realistic play background and will be staying there when he returns at the end of April.

Good job MC.....win the battle; lose the war.

Dan