Originally Posted by aCavalierInCoach

See SFOdelayed's response which mirrored my experience. No F for sale, but I called in ahead of time to try to apply an RPU and they said it was not possible, but I should talk to the folks at EWR. On arrival, they informed me I could not be added to the upgrade list or purchase an upgrade as they were allocated "by management". And no I did not appear on the upgrade list.

Edit: I also went back and checked my email on this. I remember being particularly frustrated because I was booked on a full, absurdly high J fare, so I don't think I was "outspent". Noticed because usually we are PP and book into C ewr/sfo vv but our account was dry or something. The only people who did appear on the upgrade list were, I believe, employees (as they appeared on all 3 of the waitlists), though none cleared all the way into F IIRC, and that wasn't really my complaint.