So heres my story.
I emailed yesterday and after 15hrs got a kind decline. So i decided if at first you fail, try try again. I called in and failed. So lets try again (It is 50k points after all)
BINGO!! After 13 minutes on the phone with membership rewards rep (and explaining how i love AmEx, use it all the time) he got supervisor approval to credit the 50k
Moral of the story - Keep on trying!
Good luck to you all!
Oh and I forgot to mention, if any of you have the starwoods AmEx card which offerd 30k points, but only signed up when the offer was 10k, email them and ask for the 20k diff. That worked for me on the first email attempt!
