Today was the last day of the annual Daily Getaways sale that has been going on for the past 5 weeks, and the grand finale (aka most popular deal) was the ability to purchase those sought-after Hyatt points for a little over a penny a piece. It’s no secret that it’s an incredible value, and I’m never surprised that these deals sell out in seconds each year.
In the past, my family and I had a lot of fun with the Daily Getaways promotions (related post), but I’ve never had the slightest chance of grabbing the Hyatt points this time around… or ever.
- $260 for 24,000 points = 1.084 cents per point (120 available). <— best shot at getting in on the deal
- $330 for 30,000 points = 1.1 cents per point (54 available).
- $415 for 40,000 points = 1.038 cents per point (30 available). <—- best value
- $775 for 72,000 points = 1.077 cents per point (25 available).
Like most, I sat at my computer promptly 5 minutes before 1pm ET and watched the clock religiously until 1pm struck. I already knew I wasn’t getting on the deal, but just for further support of my hypothesis, I waited like a fool anyway.
Sure enough, I clicked “Buy Now” as fast as humanely possible, and I’m talking ultra-caffeinated, crazy-person speed, and I still reached this screen:
While I am sure some of us were able to snag the points the fair and square way during the sale, the truth is, there are some really advanced travel hackers out there, who make use of their tech-savvy skills and have come up with an automated method to beat us all. I’ll leave it at that.
While I am not trying to sound like a sore-loser here, and I’ll certainly acknowledge that the purchase of these Hyatt points really is a good deal-Â I don’t think I’ll be wasting my time anymore in the future with this offer.
After all, it really is a good promotion for Hyatt from a publicity standpoint, especially to see all of these people go nuts over cheap points, but the reality is that it’s pretty unattainable for the average person, considering that the number of sets available under each offer is extremely limited, making it nearly impossible for anyone to actually buy them.
Anyway, a big congrats to all that were able to snag the deal. I’m curious to hear from those who did!
These ‘deals” aren’t as good as the deals when this promotion began several years ago. Oh sure, there’s always an exception or two. I agree with you re: wasting time. It is fun to read how many travel writers tell everyone that the deal isn’t that good, then go on to sell credit cards that aren’t the best deal.
As a matter of fact, someone on one of the travel blogger FB pages called me a downer for reminding readers that the Alamo deal isn’t always a bargain, but I digress. I do feel that the oldtimers in these parts have to look out for all the new players to the game.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to get back to the real travel issues at hand. Planning our trip to SIN and Vietnam (or Bali). ;)
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What are you talking about? You mean you didn’t buy the 100k Hilton points for $500. Definitely deal of the century imho. I used multiple accounts so I could buy more than one!
If you are not going to write the real reason, what is the point of the post and the title? All you had was “really advanced” in italics and automated method. If you do not know that is fine, but the title and the content are like AA award availability.
I was able to snag 24K hyatt points back in 2015, but haven’t been able to get anything since then.
I saw a couple people claim to have gotten the Hyatt deals without using bots by continually reclicking after 1PM ET. Apparently some of the inventory really does come back if someone wants to keep clicking long enough.
However, I disagree that this charade is great marketing. I am seeing lots of comments of “what a waste of my time.” How is it good marketing to PO your most loyal customers? It isn’t
Yup. Unless I see at least 10X the quantity they’re offering now, I’m definitely not giving these guys 5 seconds of my time from here on out. Overall, these deals only end up annoying most people. Very poor marketing indeed.
I clicked buy and the browser thought for a full 10 minutes, then all of a sudden it asked for my Hyatt #. Wow! Success or so I thought. I entered my Hyatt # and it then said “error” and booted me back to the buy page. The use of bots or whatever “advanced techniques” is going on is total BS and takes the sport out of it.
You don’t have to be remotely tech savy to run bots. In fact, you can pay someone on upwork $20 to make something similar. That being said, even with a basic bot, you’ll stand almost no chance. I suspect Chinese botters snapped all of them.
How do we do this?
i actually forgot about the deal since I was out at lunch. I came back at 2pm and found 3 out of the 4 deals were sold out. Somehow the $775 deal was still not sold out but you’re put in a queue. Just surprised me and not sure why it would take so long for a person to pay for 72,000 points! I checked again at around 3pm and same thing! I now just checked it at 4:30pm and it was finally sold out. Just found it odd.
Same thing happened to me. I got back from lunch at 2, thought maybe there’s still something out there (foolishly I might add, but hey, you never know) and saw the $775 deal. After refreshing and waiting on queue, i gave up and now it’s finally sold out!
I agree 100% I also tried to get one of the vegas deals on my work computer and phone and they immediately sold out. I will never waste my time and energy again. Simply not worth it.