Sign up for all United offers at once (pkx's web script - no longer functioning)
Oct 23, 2006, 6:39 pm
#1
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: SJC
Posts: 251
Sign up for all United offers at once (pkx's web script - no longer functioning)
Fellow FTers,
I've written a web script that will automatically sign you up for all current United promo offers at once.... don't want to miss out on one!
Enter your MP#, press the button, and wait 10-15sec for it to show you the results.
Let me know what you think.
http://www.linquist.net/geek/united/
Source code for one-time sign-up:
http://www.linquist.net/geek/united/source.php.txt
Source code for the weekly/monthly run script:
http://www.linquist.net/geek/united/...source.php.txt
-Kris
I've written a web script that will automatically sign you up for all current United promo offers at once.... don't want to miss out on one!
Enter your MP#, press the button, and wait 10-15sec for it to show you the results.
Let me know what you think.
http://www.linquist.net/geek/united/
Source code for one-time sign-up:
http://www.linquist.net/geek/united/source.php.txt
Source code for the weekly/monthly run script:
http://www.linquist.net/geek/united/...source.php.txt
-Kris
Last edited by pkx; Nov 2, 2006 at 10:25 am
Oct 23, 2006, 6:43 pm
#2
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: California
Programs: UA
Posts: 610
lol, too bad I'm already enrolled in all of them...
///UA pwnz j00!!! :rofl
///UA pwnz j00!!! :rofl
Oct 23, 2006, 6:51 pm
#3
Join Date: May 2006
Programs: UA 1K MM, *Wood Plat (Gold Lifetime)
Posts: 501
Isn't there some occasions that you do not want competing offers? I can think of examples where folks were given a lesser offer when more than one were signed-up for -- if that is indeed the case then this may present a problem down line.
I certainly give the OP credit for creating, and offering to the FT community, a potentially valuable tool, just wanted to point out a possible pitfall.
I certainly give the OP credit for creating, and offering to the FT community, a potentially valuable tool, just wanted to point out a possible pitfall.
Oct 23, 2006, 6:51 pm
#4
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: SYD
Posts: 2,903
Doesn't work. It says "no numbers entered. press back"
goodo
goodo
Oct 23, 2006, 6:56 pm
#5
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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Originally Posted by goodo
Doesn't work. It says "no numbers entered. press back"
goodo
goodo
Whoops - fixed.
Oct 23, 2006, 7:37 pm
#6
Join Date: Sep 2006
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it worked - pretty awesome , thanks lowly 2P
Oct 23, 2006, 7:47 pm
#7
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: SF Bay Area
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Posts: 225
Thanks - this is cool. Can you expose the code a bit - where are you getting the list of current offers from?
Cheers...
Cheers...
Originally Posted by pkx
Fellow FTers,
I've written a web script that will automatically sign you up for all current United promo offers at once.... don't want to miss out on one!
Enter your MP#, press the button, and wait 10-15sec for it to show you the results.
Let me know what you think.
http://www.linquist.net/geek/united/
-Kris
I've written a web script that will automatically sign you up for all current United promo offers at once.... don't want to miss out on one!
Enter your MP#, press the button, and wait 10-15sec for it to show you the results.
Let me know what you think.
http://www.linquist.net/geek/united/
-Kris
Oct 23, 2006, 8:54 pm
#8
Used to be 'g_leyser'
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Posts: 10,036
Nice job!! ^^
Oct 23, 2006, 8:58 pm
#9
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: SAN
Programs: UA 1P /Starwood Gold/Hyatt Plat/UA RCC
Posts: 1,535
How do you know this is legit?
Oct 23, 2006, 9:18 pm
#10
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Thanks for the work on this. ^
We have a lot of flights to and from Florida-IAD, SFO-DEN, DEN-Florida etc before year end and there seem to be bonus promos all over for them.
DMFreidman used to offer just such a workaround.
I do remember the issue sometimes was that some promos were not combinable and the first one you signed for outranked one later that might be much better for you, AFAIK.
Just a thought.
That was one of my suggestion on the Beta.bomb thread nearby - they could easily offer us a view of WHAT promos we were registered for, so you could ask for one to be removed if a far better NON combinable one came along later on. Right now they will show us AFTER a promo what we got extra miles for, and the promo number, but not before. And UA being slack as usual, never email members to advise promo registration.
Also Kris - your full name shows on that page ... you may have no issue with that, but thought it was worth mentioning.
We have a lot of flights to and from Florida-IAD, SFO-DEN, DEN-Florida etc before year end and there seem to be bonus promos all over for them.
DMFreidman used to offer just such a workaround.
I do remember the issue sometimes was that some promos were not combinable and the first one you signed for outranked one later that might be much better for you, AFAIK.
Just a thought.
That was one of my suggestion on the Beta.bomb thread nearby - they could easily offer us a view of WHAT promos we were registered for, so you could ask for one to be removed if a far better NON combinable one came along later on. Right now they will show us AFTER a promo what we got extra miles for, and the promo number, but not before. And UA being slack as usual, never email members to advise promo registration.
Also Kris - your full name shows on that page ... you may have no issue with that, but thought it was worth mentioning.
Oct 23, 2006, 9:27 pm
#11
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: ANC
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Posts: 1,453
Wow...a neat little script: thanks for writing it!
Oct 23, 2006, 9:28 pm
#12
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: SJC
Posts: 251
Originally Posted by rudling
Thanks - this is cool. Can you expose the code a bit - where are you getting the list of current offers from?
Cheers...
Cheers...
Answering three questions at once...
Here's where I'm getting the list of offers... gotta love Google!
http://www.google.com/search?q=+%22i...qdr=y&filter=0
ozstamps
Good thoughts re: the offers. It would be nice if the .bombeta (heh) offered more info so I could have the script be more intelligent.
I'm not worried about my full name showing up.
and carl92103,
How do I know it's legit? Well, I wrote it
. How do YOU know it's legit? Well, you can take a look at my PHP (the web language I wrote it in). If you program in PHP, you'll see that I'm not too good at it... my code is pretty messy... but it works!http://www.linquist.net/geek/united/source.php.txt
Oct 23, 2006, 9:31 pm
#13
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Springfield, VA
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Posts: 436
The code looks pretty good. Thanks for the effort on putting this together.
Oct 23, 2006, 9:40 pm
#14
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: SAN
Programs: UA 1P /Starwood Gold/Hyatt Plat/UA RCC
Posts: 1,535
The code looks legit. These days you need to be careful what you enter on certain sites.
Thanks for writing the script.
Thanks for writing the script.
Oct 23, 2006, 9:41 pm
#15
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: PWM usually, DCA/IAD this year
Programs: UA 1K
Posts: 307
What a nice tool. Thanks a lot! ^ ^ ^