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Greedy Restaurants And Hotels Use You As Spokesperson


After a meal or overnight experience, many senior travelers are inundated with online requests to post favorable comments on social media websites. Of course, that’s OK if you do it voluntarily following an especially good experience. However, the beancounters who promote those businesses now consider the internet a fantastic free advertising tool.

As a recent customer, your happy comments encourage travelers to patronize that hotel or restaurant. Therefore, when you’re being pressured online to write favorable words on social media, realize you’re creating free advertising without any compensation. Of course, if you have a particularly bad experience … such as bugs in your bed or flies in your soup … feel free to blab it angrily on social media.
Robocalls: Don’t Even Bother To Cuss Them Out PDF Print E-mail


Despite being on the no-call list, your travel4seniors.com editor has suddenly been inundated with those hated phone calls at home. Some of the latest, coming in almost daily, promise free cruises.

The recorded pitches are usually spoken by women with American accents. However, the suspicion is that the racket originates in phone centers in Russia, China, Africa and/or Mexico. Why any potential senior suckers in their right minds would give out personal, financial info on the phone to strangers makes no sense at all. At first we cussed them out, but latest info warns us to just hang up.

Reports are that technically advanced robocall crooks can now record your voice and use it to contact bank or credit card company to make illegal withdrawals. There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Add to it: there’s no such thing as a free cruise.
 
 
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