So for everyone that's following here is the update on how United is dropping the ball. So after doing the reservation and always having it canceled after 24 hours I made one more and called TK. Gave them the tracker and they said everything was confirmed. so then I called united and they said everything was fine and that they were waiting for TK to do the partner ticketing (process that usually takes 24 hours). After i hanged up i remember the phone robot asking me if i was calling to pay for the reservation which is weird since I put my CC online when I did the booking. problem ended up being that united never charged me for the reservation so TK canceled it after 24 hours due to lack of payment.