Meno P.

This site clearly used to get involved and provide help with issues. The new site implies it helps. All it seems to do is point you to a database of what they believe is a similar issue. Like, have a problem with Amazon, it will point you towards 27,000 issues people have had with Amazon.

Useless. If it's not useless they need to inform you what they have done. They inform you of nothing, that's what they did.

I can't evaluate anything about Edmunds. The new site is a complete mess. Browser crashes, browser stalls, dead links. Wow did this one ever go down the tubes.

I want to make sure I start out by saying in spite of my 1-star rating, these people are better than their competitors at Amex or GiftCardMall.

By the time they are done with fees you can easily spend over 10% of the total on posting, handling and charges. Its money for pity sake.

My advice, think of a nice way to present a check and mail it.

I can't comment on free meals, coupons and that sort of stuff. But their reservations page is a mess. Took me 4 tries to get a table for 4 at a certain time, on a certain day. The reservation page consists of several buttons that look identical but perform different tasks. Number of individuals either doesn't work or needs a secret process to get what you want out of it. I just repeatedly selected 4 until it finally confirmed for party of 4 instead of 2. Of course, the only way to know its wrong is to make a reservation, then modify it. 4 times to finally get what I asked for.

For a reservations site, OpenTable is a pain to use.

1) The owners descriptions are misleading to the point of being fraudulent. A "Home" is whatever they choose to define. I wanted an entire home, as advertised along with pics and a full description of all the rooms. Turned out the "Home" was a single bedroom and bath adjoined to another "Home".
2) Dealing with Airbnb is the absolute pits. Nothing get's done, no responses, just nothing.
3) Home owners don't let you off the hook. There's no way I could find to cancel a Request. Its up to the owner of the property. If they do nothing, you're stuck as you can't make another Request for the same time period. I spent 3 days waiting for the owner to Decline. After that I tracked them down and, still, nothing has been done.

Given the amount of funds involved in any single transaction, Airbnb has a very long way to go before it could be considered a useful service. As it stands it appears the property owners are annoyed at the fees charged and the users with the service provided.

As a buyer of tickets here's my last attempt to use eventbrite.com:

Purchased 2 tickets, unable to send tickets to Apple Wallet, unable to open pdf of tickets. Tried my phone, a tablet, a computer to no avail. I had just paid for 2 tickets that were impossible to obtain.

Its unfortunate but any vendor using eventbrite can count me out as an attendee.