Just don’t try to cancel your membership. I’ve tried emailing my request 3x with no response. And I can’t find a phone number anywhere on the site. They just keep dinging my credit card. I’ll call my cc to dispute the charges.

As of late the only departure cities listed are in USA. Lots of flights but not everyone lives in the United States of America. For example, I am in Canada and I used to get many flights listed from Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, etc. I even got many listings from departure cities in Asia I had selected. ‘The world was my oyster’ Now it is only Boston or Manhattan clam chowder.

Thus I am not sure I will continue my subscription due to this major degrading of service.

I was told I would get six months credit but it was not explained how that works (first six months free with option to cancel? 18 months instead of 12? Something else?) I also found the customer service better two years ago – if they replied to my enquiry it was lost in the deluge of emails – many of them , er Scott’s Cheap Flights alerts.

I also had (in the past, not now) many issues with spam blockers at two of my email services (tutanota and gmx) blocking SCF alerts. I was told by SCF to use Gmail. Well, I don’t like encouraging the big virtual monopolies and prefer small independent companies like SCF is or at lest once once.

In addition, rather than solve technical and content problems I had my account involuntarily cancelled.

The final problem I had was the difficulty in actually booking any of the flights that I received alerts for. Firstly, one of the best features (cell phone text alerts) were cancelled so one had to be online constantly to not miss flights. In the recent past I preferred to not use a smartphone due to privacy issues. But it seems that laptops and especially tablets are going the way of the do do bird. Secondly, the alerts validity period is so brief, like 12-24 hours that one cannot leisurely check into one’s email box once a week and find seat sales. Thirdly, the SCF system is entirely based on alerts rather than being able to go to a website and search for deals (what I would prefer). Fourthly, although technically such alerts referred to real flights I could never get them. They were difficult and ephemeral. But I am an old man and not much of a computer person. Perhaps a traditional bucket shop manned by human beings I know the faces of is a better option for me.

My husband and I just got roundtrip flights from a small airport in Alabama (where family lives) to Germany for $300. Sometimes it takes a little time searching around, and you have to catch some of them fast (before they disappear), but they’re there.

I also had a friend get round trip tickets to Bora Bora via Scott’s Cheap Flights for $300 as well.

It won’t work every time, and sometimes it takes some work from our end, but the yearly subscription fee paid for itself MANY, MANY times over just from my first purchase since signing up. I hope it pays off for you soon!

Actually good to hear not so rosy feedback from an actual subscriber. I was wondering how really accurate those deals are.