A great promotion, the only problem was IHG ran it internally, so of course it got screwed up.
I got an email with a 1,000 points offer. I clicked on it, then saw I did not get the points. Read the fine print and then it said to get the bonus to make a reservation. As I have my bookings through February already, I looked at it, thought to myself "another IHG check-in points type of lie, nothing more".
I did not make any other reservation.
Then about 36 hours later the points posted.
A classic case study in IHG marketing.