Rigby the Dog

40 minutes ago, frugaltravel said:

Once you buy, you don't lose money unless you sell. How long do you wait "to avoid losing money"? If you are trying to buy at the bottom, good luck with that.

 

Right! So if I bought 10 days ago at $35 and it's $25 today then I didn't lose $1,000?  Ok.

12 minutes ago, frugaltravel said:

CCL will probably drop 3-10% today. Wow futures are already down 3-4% and with developments with Princess ships over the weekend I would guess CCL will drop more than the market today.

 

Right - down more than $2 right now - glad that I didn't buy at $33-$35 - still waiting on the sideline to avoid losing money.  

1 hour ago, Griller said:

What are you going to do with the $100 you saved?

 

If you used it to book a cruise then the cruise might go down on price?

Well, it's $600 now - remember that I saved $500 already by not buying Monday.

So, I'll buy an ounce of Marijuana and a nice steak dinner at Peter Luger's.  The next day I'll call Princess and get the lower fare.

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1 hour ago, ed01106 said:

Yes and no.  Timing the exact bottom is impossible.  But waiting until the virus stabilizes, cruises stop getting disrupted, etc. And then buying you would be buying a few dollars above the bottom but with much less risk of seeing your investment drop significantly.  I plan to buy on the way up.  I won’t be buying at the absolute bottom as I won’t even consider buying until it is 10% above its low.  

 

Also I am in no rush for OBC.  I am not cruising until the risk of being denied disembarkation due to quarantine subsidies.  

Exactly.

1 hour ago, Colo Cruiser said:

Do nothing, nothing happens.

Except that at this moment I've saved another $100 from Monday on 100 shares. 

1 hour ago, Colo Cruiser said:

As I said before most buy for the OBC not the investment and as stated above there is no loss until you sell.

 

But that's not true.  If I buy 100 shares at $33 per share and it goes down to $28 three days later, that $500 difference would now buy me another 17 or 18 shares - or i would have saved $500 by waiting three days.

5 minutes ago, blloydtbird said:

Hasn’t cost me anything actually, I only lose if I were to sell, I’m sure you are aware of that though.  I am confident that the stock will bounce back well before I reach retirement age, more than a quarter century from now.  As part of my ira portfolio, I chose this stock. If you are closer to retirement age or in desperate need of cash, avoid it no question. For me, I am fine with the investment. If CCL goes bankrupt, so be it. I’ll lose $3,200, I’ll be fine. If they don’t, I’ll be fine as well. If they continue paying the OBC and the dividend, I’m in a net positive situation unless I need to sell right now. I don’t and I can’t touch these funds for a long time. 
 

Finally, I’m not encouraging anyone else to buy the stock, merely showing that the OBC is still in effect as there were questions raised about that. 

 

So yes, I’m good with it. 
 

Cheers 

I hear you - and my life situation is similar to yours; albeit maybe 10 years closer to retirement date than yours.

I too have been following the stock and was waiting for $35 per share, then $33 - I kept holding off.  And now I'm waiting for the bottom.  However, this won't be part of my 401k.  And, for the moment, our next cruise isn't until November so I have time to watch it dip.

Enjoy your cruise man.

11 hours ago, blloydtbird said:

Purchased 100 shares on Monday, faxed the required information over to Princess at 2:32pm today, $250 OBC now posted to my account. I’m good with it. 

Except that it cost you $500 to get the $250 OBC.  The stock has dropped approx $5.00 a share since Monday.  But I guess as long as you are good with it . . .

Please can anyone tell me if you can buy single packs of cigarettes onboard Oasis? Which brands and how much do they cost?

Try the bar - the Casino bar. Sometimes they sell single packs.

From a passengers point of view, is the ***** anything more than a different kind of room key? It seems that most of the benefits go to Princess.

It speeds up the embarkation process, allows them to ID you anywhere on board and offer you opportunities to buy more stuff, provides them with data on passenger movement and tells them which spaces get utilized and when. I don't see a lot of upsides for me as a passenger.

Exactly. Not sure why some people (on other threads) have cancelled or threatened to cancel trips because ***** isn't ready.

Royal has the wristbands - I stopped wearing it and used the card key because I didn't like it on my wrist; it also didn't seem to work on some of the slot machines.

Maybe I'm missing something but I don't see a lot of difference for the passenger between a medallion and a "card".

You can get money at the casino cashier from your seapass card but you cannot use your seapass to play the slot machines. That is unless it is a very recent change.

You set up a pin number and you can download money to the card. That money is charged to your room. I do it all the time.

It’s a wow band and it’s not entirely the same concept as medallion.

 

Your seapass card or Wowband on Rotal only allows you to track your play and accumulate points. It has never allowed you to put money directly onto the slot machines.

What? It's exactly the same concept. And I was able to download money on the Seapass card - I can't remember if I tried it with the wrist band thingy

Medallion...your thinking of Princess.

Or whatever they are calling that "watch" thingy - it's the same concept as medallion.

That watch thing didn't seem to work at some slot machines.

Slots do not accept seapass cards.

It's all medallion now. Isn't it the same as the seapass where you can download money? It must be.

Then go to the table and get chips.

I never mentioned OBC either, but cashier would not give cash, only chips at the tables. Odd ball ship I guess, one of the smaller ones, but can't remember which one. :confused::o

So why not get chips at the table, not play, get up and walk over to the cashier and exchange the chips for cash?

Or, can't you just put your card in a slot machine, download the equivalent of the onboard cash as a room charge, don't play, take out the card, walk over to the cashier, hand then the card and get the cash for what's on the card?

Why aren’t smokers considerate of non smokers and polluting them with second hand smoke.

 

I believe the Casinos will be smoke free soon.

 

 

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Your problem is with the cruise line and not the smokers. The smokers are abiding by the rules - you appear to want to change those rules.

What about when the Casino is closed? Tons of smokers in there.

 

 

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If they are in the designated smoking area then they are not violating any policy.

Perhaps you shouldn't walk through designated smoking areas.

Nope, they can walk outside.

Hahaha - well I would bet that they don't and I would double down that the cruise line won't tell a smoker in a designated smoking area who is not gambling that they must walk outside.

I've seen signs to that effect in a couple of ship casinos, but that has not been embraced fleetwide.

So if somebody is playing at a table within the smoking area and decides to take a break from gambling, then they must sit at the table if they want to smoke?

That doesn't make sense.

I believe I recall some ships compasses say “while playing “ but don’t save compasses.

 

 

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I don't know that I believe that. That's certainly tough to enforce. If somebody is smoking while playing a slot machine, for example, and their friend is standing in back of them (within the designated smoking area) watching, you're saying that only the person hitting the button on the machine is allowed to smoke, according to Royal.

The Casino is NOT a smoking lounge although people seem to use it as such.

 

 

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If smoking is allowed in designated areas and people are smoking within those designated areas then they aren't in violation of anything.

I didn't see any policy that says you must be gambling to smoke in the designated smoking areas of the Casino. Maybe those people are taking a break from gambling.

It's not that people WANT to walk through, in some cases you have no choice but to walk through the casino. Unless you go up or down a floor to get to the other end of the ship.

Sounds like a choice to me.

People use the casino as their smoking lounge even when the casino isn’t open. Very frustrating when you have to walk through the casino to get to other lounges.

So you are complaining about people smoking in a designated smoking area because you want to walk through that area to get to someplace else?

all caused by passenger abuse of the 'just drop off our luggage/carryons'...:(

 

and maybe also by a reduction in Princess staff, of course..:rolleyes:

You were right yesterday - "post go "poof"

My question is....Royal Caribbean has suggestions on what to wear, why not just follow them?

 

 

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They are suggestions.

If a waiter suggests a certain dish it doesn't mean that you have to order it.