Revel You Can`t Lose Deal Not So Great a Deal
In a previous article I wrote that I would report on Revel Casino's deal of "You Can't Lose" where they supposedly refund any slot gambling losses (of at least $100) one incurs during the month of July 2013. The deal isn't that great at all.
The deal is this: Atlantic City's newest casino resort will refund all cumulative losses of $100 or more at slot machines, video poker machines and/or electronic table games over the month of July capped at no more than $100,000 in losses. The casino will also match any slot offers other casinos make. For example, Harrah's Casino sent me an offer of $250 to show up on Friday, so when I showed a Revel card services representative a copy of the offer, Revel matched it and put $250 of slot play on my newly minted Revel card.
I must say, the no-lose promise and the matching offer got me to visit the Revel which I would never have done because I do not get offers nor do I have any rating with that casino. I don't try other casinos because I am a Seven Star player at all Caesars Entertainment Corporation casinos. I don't ever pay for rooms and rarely pay for food unless I bring a dozen people to dinner.
But I went this past weekend because of the promotion and here is what I found: the problem with the "You Can't Lose" program is how they refund those losses to you. Suppose I lose $10,000 during the month of July. Then, according to Revel, starting 7 August 2013, they spread those losses over 20 consecutive weeks in the form of slot play, in the case of $10,000 they will put $500 of slot play on your Revel card every week for 20 weeks.
20 Weeks in a Row - Deal Killer
If you don't use the allotted weekly slot play you lose it. That means you are stuck going back to the Revel every week without fail until the middle of December in order to utilize the entire refund of $10,000 in slot play. Miss one week, lose that $500 in free slot play.
I didn't expect a cash refund but a mandatory schedule kills the deal for me. It's not that going 20 weeks is a problem for me; I go to casinos about 40 weekends a year; however they're not all consecutive weekends. For example, I will be in Disney World in Orlando for two weeks in August, at the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas for one week in September, and one week at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Casino in October.
The "You Can't Lose" deal is not so great a deal for me. I would entertain it if they gave me the slot play doled out over 8 visits instead of 20 with the option to choose the 8 weeks I want to visit.
Yes, the promo did get me to visit the place once. But once is not enough for me to fall in love with the place - I probably won't be going back, although it is a gorgeous casino.
Committing to a casino is not unlike going on a date - as I wrote in my article When To Cut Off a Relationship: "... if I didn't get to at least third base on the first date, I just wouldn't see the girl again." The Revel didn't put out enough for me to go again.
