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I just received this fairly recent blog about United and its status costs. $18,000.00 (minimum) annually to retain status to "maybe get an upgrade and a few perks! 11 Takeaways From United’s New $18,000 Elite Status and more...

You are usually right on the money so to speak. However, in your one sentence, this has not always been the case. You said - - - "since day one of any program - - - " Prior to the mergers of Continental and United nine years ago, United often used to give fliers double and triple miles for actual miles flown. If you used those miles at that time you earned them, you could get some wonderful bargains on award flights. United gave those extra miles for promotions and to encourage flying. Those were the days before the airline seats were so full and before greed set in with the frequent flier programs. Now, you don't even get one mile for miles flown unless you have some sort of elite status and paid a high price for your ticket. Then when you get those miles, they devalue. I think currently, it is a bad idea to accumulate miles. I got shafted big time with United's award charts being discarded. Oh, well, live and learn.

You have a good upgrade history because of the routes you fly. If you flew a busy route, for example, LAX - ORD, your upgrade ratio would not be so good. However, it also depends on the time of day and how much you paid for your ticket. It is all about money with the new United. As to the other things you mentioned that saved you money, most fliers do not make the kind of changes you mentioned. With an airline, there is no "one size fits all" So, my friend, my answer is still - NO -

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"Is United Premier 1K worth it?" In my opinion - NO - United now requires a minimum of $15,000 each year in ticket spending to get 1K status. It is not worth the gamble of probably not getting an upgrade unless you are willing to go at an inconvenient time or routing. Other than the upgrades, what are the advantages versus a lower-tier status - answer - not much. Worse for United is that they recently devalued their mileage program by taking away its award chart. Fliers who accumulated hundreds of thousands of miles in their mileage plus account had their miles severely devalued. In many cases, to about one-third of what they were worth prior to the devaluation. Those accumulated miles were like airline money in the frequent flier bank. A portion of the accumulated miles was earned with extra miles from being 1K status but most was earned from actual flying. What a terrible thing to do to loyal customers - devalue their miles saved in their frequent flier account for future flights! If you had hundreds of thousands of dollars in an actual bank and the bank suddenly devalued your money and told you that your money is only worth one-third of what you deposited, what would you think of that bank? Essentially, that is what United just did to its frequent flier program. It was gutted. What is the point of staying loyal to an airline and spending a minimum of $15,000 annually only to be slapped in the jaw by having your accumulated miles severely devalued? I will still use United when it is convenient. I have flown enough miles this year to earn 1K for next year but I feel ripped off even though the terms of United's frequent flier program say they can change their program at any time. Again, no - it is not worth spending $15,000 to get 1K status with United.

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I agree that this latest demotion of United Airlines has gutted its loyalty program especially with their devaluation of accumulated miles. In most cases, it now requires more than three times the number of miles for a mileage award than it did before the devaluation. Those with a lot of unused miles got a severe devaluation of those miles. So, does 1K help with the pain of the devaluation? Absolutely not. The demotion negatively affects 1K fliers as well as those who hold less or no status. Getting 1K status is no longer worth the effort or the increase in spending considering the demotions. While the economy is currently doing well, United can screw around with its "loyalty" program and stick it to their loyal fliers. Just wait till the next recession strikes. The airlines will be the first to feel the recession because there will be fewer fliers. Many business and leisure fliers will not have the funds to fly. I remember the last recession when many businesses had their employees do conferences online rather than in person. United will be giving away 1K just to get customers to fly their airlines.

Exactly - I know from experience - it was not a fun deal -

You did notice that the photos were taken over a period of time. Or he dyes his hair. Some of the photos show him with completely brown hair while some photos show him with lots of grey hair.

Funny - although it is meant to be funny, many truthful things are said while joking.

What a hilarious and pompous thing to write in an escort ad. Oscar Wilde had an answer for people who write or say that sort of thing - "to love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

His photos show a man who is older than his claimed age 26. Maybe 26 around the waist?

Because, unfortunately, when an escort lowers his original asking price, sometimes, but not always, the quality of an escort's service is diminished. Haggling over the price of an object is sometimes expected but haggling over the price of personal services can, but not always, result in regret.

Good that you asked. His ad says he has been a rentmen member since January of 2017 but he does not have even one review. That is strange. Did he convince people not to write reviews (unlikely) or did he have bad reviews and then change his screen name so that the reviews would not follow him? Naughty, naughty!

I see that rentmen removed that unjustified negative review of him that solely complained about his lack of English. There is another review that also complained about his lack of correct English but that review did not receive a total negative. Not being fluent in a language is not a legitimate basis for giving a negative escort review, in my opinion. Often, rentmen will not remove a negative review but in this case, an exception was made.

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Listing them as "porn stars" is rentmen's idea - it has to do with rentmen complying with the new laws about prostitution. When you communicate with rentmen via message and if you use the word "escort" in your communication to them, their computer system is programmed to block out that word (escort) with a bunch of **** - when you get a response from them, you will see your message followed by their response. If your message included the word - escort - it has the **** instead of the word.

You should look at his August 3 rentmen review. Based on the review, he drove the client bats and the review is not good.

If you have a VPN, you can read the written text. If you don't have a VPN, go to this site: https://hide.me/en/proxy Then, in a window that contains the ad for the escort, go to his reviews then copy that link. Paste that link into the first site above. That VPN will make your computer appear to be away from the U.S. which does not allow the written text to show (the hideme link). By the way, he has more than one bad review. The most recent review is bogus. That review just bitched about his English not being good. I don't think his lack of English deserves a bad review. Other reviews said his photos are out of date and that he was not in good physical shape as the photos showed. Have fun reading the text reviews yourself. Then you can make up your decision.

There are? I found a lot of helpful travel information when I went there to plan my trip. Nobody was rude to me when I asked questions. They were very friendly. Many of the guys do a lot of traveling and know a lot about South America. The answers I got were correct. I saved a lot of time and money after writing down the information that was told to me at that site. Maybe you mean a different site. Trolls? Ignorant? They sure know a lot for being ignorant. You must mean a different site.

Also look at this link for the same person: https://rentmen.com/VincentWilliams With his Vincent Williams ad, the last four reviews were all negative. The reviews say he asked for the money in advance then ran away without delivering what was agreed. He recently changed his ad name to rentmen.eu/Chase where he can remove the bad reviews because rentmen does not know the two people are one in the same. Anyone with a VPN can read the narrative reviews on rentmen vincent and you will see that his guy is a fake and a thief assuming you can believe the last four reviewers on the ad he closed just before he opened his current ad.

Do you mean this photo? https://yandex.com/images/search?pos=0&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.rentmen.eu%2Fpublic%2Fphotos%2Fthumb%2F72%2F453352_1566500880_gevrndrahe.jpg&img_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lpsg.com%2Fproxy.php%3Fimage%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252F68.media.tumblr.com%252F02316f017aaf200352da3e3698ff1936%252Ftumblr_ounyshodu71unycp4o1_1280.jpg%26hash%3D7e81fbd75e23d67fed510e4709100082&rpt=imagelike

And, please tell me how the escort can "put his foot down" and collect a cancellation fee from someone who is anonymous and uses a fake name and phone number to book an appointment at the escort's hotel? "Written up" - with no name and no details? What is that going to accomplish? Who is going to read reviews about clients who give no details about themselves? I feel bad for the escort I know but he realizes the risks he takes when he books appointments with people he does not know. That is why is it a good idea to have "regulars" who don't flake. It is good for both parties -

All these different posts with different complaints about Hide - VPN. Quite simply, the site is temperamental. It often does not work correctly depending on how and when you access the site. The nice thing is that even though it does not work all of the time, it works most of the times we try to use it. Solution - - - when it does not work, try a different browser or wait a while until it gets over its temporary tizzy. Patience is a virtue.

Then you reschedule and they both flake. I know an escort I see fairly often. More than half of his appointments get canceled by clients or the client disappears at the time of the appointment. The escort is handsome and charming. It is nothing the escort did to cause the cancellations. Sad, but it goes with the territory.