Just a few hours ago, I blogged about Cebu Pacific's Piso Promo that's only available 'til November 2. I was about to book 6 round-trip tickets a few minutes ago only to find out that there were no available promo seats anymore. I knew about the promo this morning but I had to make sure Mai's family are okay with the schedules and all that.
I Googled for more information because I can't get anything on their site. The Piso promo ad is no longer there so I had this suspicion that it's no longer available or they cancelled it.
Guess what?!? I found their Twitter page (CebuPacific5J) and found out that all the 100,000 promo seats they allotted were already sold out. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!
The promo was available only for flights from June 15 to September 30, 2010. It's available for all domestic and international flights. And, they were only available for purchasing/booking from October 31 to November 2. Now, as much as I want to believe that they're REALLY all sold out, I can't.
100,000 seats sold out in less than 24 hours?!? Are you kidding me?! Sorry but I don't believe that the promo seats can be all sold out in less than a day.
So, now I'm thinking that Cebu Pacific's Piso Promo was all a trick. Or they didn't anticipate that lots of people would be availing of the promo in a very short time so they decided to NOT give all the 100,000 promo seats after realizing that there are many who would want to travel on the promo dates next year.. I just don't freaking believe that it can be sold out in less than 24 hours. In 2-3 days, maybe. But, not in less than 24 hours.
So, if you're like us looking for that Piso Promo, forget about it. I don't think Cebu Pacific even had the intention to give out all the 100,000 promo seats. Sheesh.
If the promo seats were for Summer 2010, October or December, I would've believed it. Or if we were in a vastly populated country, yeah. Most of the people I know didn't even know about the promo. And, I've been getting lots of visits regarding this promo today and they all seem to be wondering how they can take advantage of the Piso Promo seat since they can't seem to find it anywhere on the Cebu Pacific site anymore. Ridiculous, really.
Tsk tsk. I strongly disagree that the 100,000 promo seats they allotted are all gone, booked or purchased by REAL people. I really believe Cebu Pacific didn't have that intention to sell them all out.
By the way, while I was trying to book the flights earlier, their site was intermittently slow and inaccessible. It can be because there were 100,000 people trying to book their tickets online but if they're planning on offering promos like this, their site should be able to handle the bandwidth. Tsk tsk. Or maybe, they were updating the site and taking out the promo because they changed their minds not to give out the 100,000 promo seats anymore. Hmmm...
How about you?!?! Can you freaking believe it?!
I was thinking, if they've got 6,000+ followers in Twitter and they book 10 to 20 tickets each, that's possible. Argh. I still can't believe the seats were all sold out that fast. I hope they'd offer more promos soon and that their site can handle the demand. Sheeshhhhh.
This is becoming a live blog. I still can't get over the fact that I wasn't able to avail of the promo. Tsk tsk. I still think there's something sinister about the whole thing. We were able to avail of the Piso promo before and we only booked the flight 2 days after it started so it's just crazy that everything's sold out. Maybe they want to check first which flights were being booked the most and... okay okay, enough about this. I need to move on. LOLz.
