Okay, so that was a touch of a click-baity title, but they sort of did donate Steem to my account in a very round about way.
A few weeks ago, I was travelling to Leipzig for a set of concerts, and for whatever reason, the orchestra management thought it was best that we fly to Berlin and then get on a coach for the rest of the journey to Leipzig. Well, I'm not one to ask questions about these sort of things, I'm the one that will just happily board whatever mode of transport that I'm pointed to, immerse myself in writing or gaming and then pop my head up when we arrive at the hotel.
However, on the day of the travel, for some reason our flight was cancelled. The official reason that was given was that there was no crew for the plane, which I guess is code for something else, seeing as you probably should remember to schedule a crew to help fly the plane? Anyway, I'm not really one to complain at length (unlike some other colleagues), and so I found myself writing and gaming on the airport floor instead of in a bus seat... Not really that big a change.
Anyway, fast forward a couple of weeks to this week, and one of my work mates told me that I could claim compensation for a cancelled/delayed flight. Apparently, there is an EU Law that goes by the name Flight Compensation Regulation 261/2004 which states that if I have a flight cancelled/delayed (by over 2 hours) or overbooked and denied boarding, then I can claim compensation of between 250-600 euro!
I had heard of this law before, but I've never really tried to claim it. I just figure if they book me on a different flight then I don't really care. However, this time I thought, why not? The orchestra had paid for the tickets, and they wouldn't claim it, so I figure I may as well fight the good fight and ask for what is my rights under EU law!
Actually, I could say it was compensation for staying at a really really crappy hotel, having to wake up really early in the morning for my rebooked flight and having the worst dinner in my life! Seriously, you could have thrown the chicken through a window... it had the consistency of a brick, and I'm not exaggerating... much.
I filled out the online form for the compensation twice with no response (I had a few days between each attempt), and so I was going to give up on it. However, a friend told me she had hers responded to within the day, and had received a bank transfer within the week. So, I figured I was doing something wrong.
Yes, the problem turned out to be the fact that I was using a mobile browser. After submitting the form, you needed to do another confirmation, which on a mobile browser was outside the viewing area, and so looked like a blank screen. So, I redid the process on a laptop and got a response within the day. Approved, for a short trip within the EU, compensation was 250 euro. FREE MONEY!!!!! I haven't felt this happy since all the Bitcoin airdrops!
Anyway, I bounced it straight out to a fiat-crypto exchange and today it cleared. First thing was it headed straight out to Binance as ETH, and then straight onto the ETH-STEEM market. Seeing as it wasn't really expected money, I traded it at the spot rate (STEEM is pretty low at the moment anyway).
Thanks KLM! I now have a voting slider on Steemit because of you and some forward thinking EU laws!
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Yay! Congrats on the slider! I am glad that you got compensated!
Yay! Congrats on the
Slider! I am glad that you
Got compensated!
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Thanks! It really makes Steemit much easier to use on the fly... without having to switch sites. If only I wasn't so attached to a dark theme...
Hahahaha okay I really had to laugh about your clickbait titel but actually nothing is a lie about it.! You didnt book but got the compensation although that night was propably a reaaaalllly bad one, and getting some super cheap steem was for sure not a bad choice.
I bet you are laughing your ass off today with that 20% increase in price :)
Ha, I wonder how many people came wondering how to fly KLM and get Steem, maybe like a frequent flyer thing!
I hadn't realised the price jump (if it stayed...), I am quietly chuckling, lucky timing!
Your click bait worked! That is really cool to get the found money and really smart to use it to help build your account. You just took months off of your growth curve and you will now see even faster growth then you had been having before.
Wish more people would see the potential of doing this. Even a newbie that has 0.10 sp to start with if they could just add 20sp they would save themselves weeks if not months as the first 100sp are the hardest. If they could then add 10sp a week they would be speeding up their growth at a huge rate compared to trying to just earn it all. With current prices it's the perfect time to add some power to your account and then reap the benefits once steem is back to $3-4.
Ha ha, glad it worked on someone! I've been avoiding using my own money on Steemit, just because I'm not relying on the income and I'm not a blogger/writer as a profession. However, I have dripped in some from various crypto (like Cindicator prizes). This time, seeing as the money was unexpected, I figured it wouldn't be missed!
Thats awesome my parents would love that they alway's fly with KLM when we go from Canada back to Europe and the service and everything is phenomenal!
The best thing about them is the fact the let me on board with violin and an extra small bag (laptop)! This is absolute bliss for a musician!
Wow thats awesome you could even play a little tune for everyone on board!
A bit like the titanic, as the ship goes down...
I have taken note of this "flight cancellation regulation" since it has happened too many times that a flight has been delayed or cancelled for one reason or another....
Thanks again for the valuable infos... :-)
It's definitely worth trying, especially if you don't expect anything. Most airlines have a difficult to find webpage for it, but if you google the airline and 'flight compensation' you should get it.
Thanks again for the tips.... :-)
Nice one @bengy
That's two people I know that have recently gained the slider function. A definite target of mine. It's lovely to get some unexpected cash too, even if you had to chase it up.
Gaz
Yes, it's great not to have to switch between accounts and websites to use the slider. I can now use it on normal steemit, where I prefer the dark theme!
I'm usually happy if KLM remember my vegan meal!
Ha, I hope you aren't the one that orders a special meal then changes seats so they can't find you!,
Woah great for you dude lucky that even the market was down and you had extra fiat.
Yes, it was some lucky timing!
Cool 🤣
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