Originally Posted by
golfingboy
Yeah, the snafu with the website and the postings is all on Cartera. However, this whole sh*tstorm started with UA who is the one that is running the Month of Miles promo that led to a massive spike in purchases via the MPS mall. Then of course, with a rather incompetent organization running the mall it was doomed to fail from the beginning. I am sure Cartera was the one that pressured UA to change the terms of the promotion and temporarily pulled some gift card purchase eligibility [i.e. made HD and Sam's Club gift card purchases ineligible] from the system since those purchases are resulting in a net loss per transaction for some companies involved. Then it seems that Cartera and some retailers were trying to "resolve" some of the mess on their own thinking by simply voiding some gift card purchases to clear the order backlog and avoid being stuck with purchases that are not going to generate them any revenue, but costing them money to process the transactions. It was a double-black diamond filled with rocks/trees/moguls/cliffs downhill slope from there.
Now, with a gigantic backlog for award postings [with some apparently missing] with plenty of IT issues in the mix as result from the voided orders that is apparently confusing the system, they think it is a great time to release a merged mall that is plagued with bugs.
Very poor management decision by Cartera IMO. Granted, the site is run by Cartera, but their mistakes are ruining UA's reputation and if I were an UA executive I would be very embarrassed to have my company's name on the MPS mall portal after all when things are not working customers sees "UNITED" on the site not "CARTERA".
Such a shame to see what I thought was going to be the "promotion of the year" turn into a royal mess, which could have easily been avoided if the terms of the promo was well thought out.
The reason i went to Cartera to actually apply for work there (It is located 26 miles from my home) is to see about getting a job In the business of miles and points (wife always thinks I should work in such a biz after all) and to HELP them both fix promo issues and better design promos so they do not HAVE issues! All while STILL allowing for people like us to get mega miles by doing GCs and such along the way. But Cartera would not have me. I am by no means the only nor the very best candidate but I think I have the skills and the demographic know how and I have a lot of marketing experience too. They should have at least wanted to hear more. But no. I think they WANT to make these mistakes so they can confuse everybody and just bail out of it later. Like any 'good' company of today, UA included, they certainly do not want to actually SPEND money to fix a problem. Oh no!
Originally Posted by
jasonvr
If anyone is looking for an easy way to print large amounts of confirmation emails into one PDF, I've found a solution that seems to work pretty well. I started using PDFCreator. You can print the first email from a program like Thunderbird, and at that point you tell it to Wait/Queue. You then select the rest of the emails you want to put into one PDF and hit print. They will all get queued together in the program at which point you can combine them all and print into one PDF.
I've managed to do 125 and 368 emails without problems, although it is a bit slow
good tips! Thanks!
I do have the full acrobat (downloaded from torrent website) but your method works as well.
Originally Posted by
fsa_ea
Congratulations, you have earned Lifetime Premier E- status!
LOL
Originally Posted by
SuperFlyBoy
Not at all!
Note that only
now they have the toolbar notify that as of
Oct 3, the toolbar is not functioning - on
5 October, no less!
Again, rolling out any tests or beta versions would mean they would have to have spent money! Oh no! Cannot be done! better to just bank on the theory that only half the people affected will ever really complain.
Who here wants to show them how badly they messed up thinking that?
The new MP site does not toggle to showing 50 views per page, and no other pages show anything. It's so bad it's not even funny. I still want my $ too! haha