Cherry on Top Gift Card Limits

[Virga]

This is not actually an OBC question - we'll be donating our OBC to the casino - but I imagine it's pertinent to those folks as well.

 

Is there a per day / per cruise limit to how much gift card credit you can purchase?  I just realized that all of our fall cruises will be due after our July cruise, and imagined the 'offer algorithm' might think kinder thoughts about me if I purchase gift cards onboard to cover those impending payments.  Anyone know offhand if there are limits?

[Elaine5715]

1 hour ago, Virga said:

This is not actually an OBC question - we'll be donating our OBC to the casino - but I imagine it's pertinent to those folks as well.

 

Is there a per day / per cruise limit to how much gift card credit you can purchase?  I just realized that all of our fall cruises will be due after our July cruise, and imagined the 'offer algorithm' might think kinder thoughts about me if I purchase gift cards onboard to cover those impending payments.  Anyone know offhand if there are limits?

The casino offers are always more generous with a higher casino spend.  I don't believe there is any triggers for new offers based on Cherry on Top spends. Gift cards are recorded same as spending $20 a pound for m&ms

[Virga]

57 minutes ago, Elaine5715 said:

The casino offers are always more generous with a higher casino spend.  I don't believe there is any triggers for new offers based on Cherry on Top spends. Gift cards are recorded same as spending $20 a pound for m&ms

 

My husband has gambled about 30% more than than me on every single cruise, on the same slots, but my casino offers are more generous.  I'm nearly convinced it's because I pay for everything cruise related in my name.  If they indeed see gift card purchases the same way they see purchases, that would be glorious - I've seen enough datapoints to be confident that they love people who spend heavily on high profit categories like M&Me and spa services. 

 

That's basically exactly what I'm hoping to discover - it would be idiotic of them to value gift card purchases as highly as an equal amount of candy purchases, but a girl can hope!  I need $1300 in gift cards, though, and I was wondering if anyone knew if that was going to be feasible on a ten day cruise.

[Schoifmom]

If all you need is $1300, it shouldn't be an issue.  They may need to do multiple transactions, but I would think that you could do that.

[Elaine5715]

34 minutes ago, Virga said:

 

My husband has gambled about 30% more than than me on every single cruise, on the same slots, but my casino offers are more generous.  I'm nearly convinced it's because I pay for everything cruise related in my name.  If they indeed see gift card purchases the same way they see purchases, that would be glorious - I've seen enough datapoints to be confident that they love people who spend heavily on high profit categories like M&Me and spa services. 

 

That's basically exactly what I'm hoping to discover - it would be idiotic of them to value gift card purchases as highly as an equal amount of candy purchases, but a girl can hope!  I need $1300 in gift cards, though, and I was wondering if anyone knew if that was going to be feasible on a ten day cruise.

Casino offers are also based on marketing data they purchase so yes, your credit/debit card information would trigger more offers than his but it doesn't matter where you spend. The onboard  and bounceback offers are tied directly to casino play

[Elaine5715]

37 minutes ago, Virga said:

 

My husband has gambled about 30% more than than me on every single cruise, on the same slots, but my casino offers are more generous.  I'm nearly convinced it's because I pay for everything cruise related in my name.  If they indeed see gift card purchases the same way they see purchases, that would be glorious - I've seen enough datapoints to be confident that they love people who spend heavily on high profit categories like M&Me and spa services. 

 

That's basically exactly what I'm hoping to discover - it would be idiotic of them to value gift card purchases as highly as an equal amount of candy purchases, but a girl can hope!  I need $1300 in gift cards, though, and I was wondering if anyone knew if that was going to be feasible on a ten day cruise.

They don't separate purchases, it just shows as "Cherry on Top" om your statement.  They make way more off selling candy for 10x the price

[tytanbri]

1 hour ago, Virga said:

 

My husband has gambled about 30% more than than me on every single cruise, on the same slots, but my casino offers are more generous.  I'm nearly convinced it's because I pay for everything cruise related in my name.  If they indeed see gift card purchases the same way they see purchases, that would be glorious - I've seen enough datapoints to be confident that they love people who spend heavily on high profit categories like M&Me and spa services. 

 

That's basically exactly what I'm hoping to discover - it would be idiotic of them to value gift card purchases as highly as an equal amount of candy purchases, but a girl can hope!  I need $1300 in gift cards, though, and I was wondering if anyone knew if that was going to be feasible on a ten day cruise.

I pay for everything on our cruises. I spend more time and money in the casino (slots and tables), purchase from the Cherry on Top and gift shops. Yet, my husband (plays table minimally) gets all the casino offers. I have never received one and have been on eight cruises. Makes absolutely no sense.

[Virga]

2 hours ago, Elaine5715 said:

They don't separate purchases, it just shows as "Cherry on Top" om your statement.  They make way more off selling candy for 10x the price

 

If they don't have a way to track them separately, boy, they're dumb - but I certainly won't complain!  They should absolutely be tracking purchases onboard by profit margin, their analysts and algorithms can't make good predictions with worthless data!  I'll happily take advantage, and artificially inflate my onboard spending like this every cruise if they're stupid enough to log that as high profit spend.  

[Virga]

2 hours ago, Elaine5715 said:

Casino offers are also based on marketing data they purchase so yes, your credit/debit card information would trigger more offers than his but it doesn't matter where you spend. The onboard  and bounceback offers are tied directly to casino play

 

Heh, they don't have to purchase my data to know that I'm the one that pays for all the cruises and that it's my card that goes on the folios...  It's actually silly that they'd bother to purchase marketing data from outside sources if they can't even be bothered to competently track onboard spend for analysis.  Direct data on what I'm actually willing to spend money on with Carnival is incredibly rich data, and at least one other poster here thinks they don't bother to get granular with that...  As I said to them, you won't catch me complaining if they're actually that dumb.

[Virga]

1 hour ago, tytanbri said:

I pay for everything on our cruises. I spend more time and money in the casino (slots and tables), purchase from the Cherry on Top and gift shops. Yet, my husband (plays table minimally) gets all the casino offers. I have never received one and have been on eight cruises. Makes absolutely no sense.

 

Never?? I was receiving (mediocre) casino offers all through the plague, and I don't think I ever earned more than fifty points before I started gambling onboard last year.  Are you sure you're opted in for casino marketing??

[Elaine5715]

6 minutes ago, Virga said:

 

Never?? I was receiving (mediocre) casino offers all through the plague, and I don't think I ever earned more than fifty points before I started gambling onboard last year.  Are you sure you're opted in for casino marketing??

Opting in for all offers and marketing is needed

[Elaine5715]

12 minutes ago, Virga said:

 

Heh, they don't have to purchase my data to know that I'm the one that pays for all the cruises and that it's my card that goes on the folios...  It's actually silly that they'd bother to purchase marketing data from outside sources if they can't even be bothered to competently track onboard spend for analysis.  Direct data on what I'm actually willing to spend money on with Carnival is incredibly rich data, and at least one other poster here thinks they don't bother to get granular with that...  As I said to them, you won't catch me complaining if they're actually that dumb.

The casino buys marketing data from everywhere (like most businesses) including land casinos, FB, Google, Cruise Critic,   etc so they even know we are members here.  There is a notice at the bottom of the Ocean Player's page where you can opt out of them selling your information so people who opt out may also be shorting themselves on offers.  

[tytanbri]

4 hours ago, Virga said:

 

Never?? I was receiving (mediocre) casino offers all through the plague, and I don't think I ever earned more than fifty points before I started gambling onboard last year.  Are you sure you're opted in for casino marketing??

I double checked everything. I stand corrected. I did receive one of the Austrailain Casino offers.