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Shipper
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May 22, 2018

Need some help with Reserve America???

For years I've been at my computer at 8AM EST to try to get a Florida State park site when first available 11 months in advance. Sometimes I got one, most times I didn't. I always felt that I was not quick enough when I didn't get one, but now I wonder if I even had a chance.

I have some friends that saw an ad guaranteeing sites for a price. On the first available day (after telling the contact which sites they wanted), they had three computers working at seconds before the 8AM deadline with no success. The contact notified them that he had both sites available and upon sending his fee ($20 a day) and the regular Reserve America fee they would have the sites. They paid and got an email from Reserve America that the sites were reserved for them.

The only way that I can understand that this would work is that the contact has an assistant in Reserve America that locked the sites before they would have been available or has technology not available to the average person. I don't believe that the State of Florida would promote such an arrangement; but, then again, I have no idea how long this service has been available. Of course this could be on the up and up and my comments would be meaningless. Any thoughts?
  • States would have to get into blocking mass buyers of spaces, tracking them by email addys or maybe even CC numbers. I doubt most would be willing to go out of their way to stop this though since they are getting paid.
  • I will also be interested to get an answer as I know public lands, state and national park reservations are non transferable and having the sites blocks for business-profit purposes is not in line with our country's principles of equal treatment.

    Of course, unless we are already into "corporations are people too" system, lol.
  • That stinks.

    Reminds me of buying concert or other venue tickets. The general public doesn't stand a chance agains places like ticketmaster and others, then is forced to pay nearly double the face value of a ticket due to "convenience" fees.

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