Sounds like a jerk.

Jess has a couple of pairs of Luccheses and we've seen them all over the place with all sorts of sizes and shapes. I'll be sure to ask at the factory when we're there next month.

Yep, jerk he is. But, he went ahead and made a bid. If he really had so many doubts about these boots, he shouldn't have bid on them.

EUA Tally Question
 

It appears that those in The Box are among the more prolific trackers of EUA’s. The ‘scoring’ of eligibility and whether or not you have received an EUA is, for the most part fairly straightforward but there are a number of situations that I’ve encountered this year which don’t present me with a clear definition. I’d like to present as accurate picture of my EUA success/failure rates and want to know how you score the domestic situations described below.

Eligibility:
1. If the AC has no F section (ERJ, Qx00) it is not eligible.
2. If the AC has an F section (73x, 75x, 76x, 77x) it is eligible.

EUA success/failure for eligible flights also assumes that you have not turned off the CEU switch or the flight. For eligible flights (as defined above):

1. You get an EUA. Count as eligible success.
2. You don’t get an EUA. Count as eligible failure.
3. You get an EUA and your flight is delayed or cancelled. You are rebooked and you do not get an EUA on the rebooked flight.
4. CO has held EUA’s for the Gate for your flight. Your flight is delayed or cancelled and you are rebooked onto another flight which has already had all F seats filled.
5. You have a connecting itinerary and you have received EUA’s for both flights. You miss your connecting flight and do not receive an EUA for the rebooked connecting flight.

How do you tally 3, 4 and 5 from an eligibility, success/failure standpoint?

^congrats ^

I count #3 and #5, because I received the upgrade, but didn't fly on the plane.

I do not count #4. The upgrades for the others was actually received, but since no upgrades were given out on this flight and I was rebooked, I do not count it, even if I was #1 on the list.

Im with you on this .

I also keep a separate accounting of ineligible when evaluating how well the program works for me personally.

After all, if they only run RJs or Qs on routes that I need to fly, then that obviously diminishes the value of status. Sitting in coach because there is no F is the same as sitting in coach and not getting an EUA.

Can't you cancel or block bidders?

I have a set of BF tea cups on my conference table in my office. Actually, I have 1.25 sets, as I have the fifth for me. The set at home only has three tea cups - I'm not that entertaining.

I always set a reserve price. It keeps people like :rolleyes: from making cheap a$$ bids.

:rolleyes: of the morning goes to the project manager at my company who I was scheduled for a conference call at 9:00 AM with. In her e-mail to set up the call, she said we'd use our internal conferencing system, and in the e-mail she gave me the number for that system and her ID. So I called it, not realizing it was the wrong number. Instead of the usual recording I'm used to hearing that welcomes me to our conference call system I get a message in a seductive female voice welcoming me to the "premiere adult chat line of the Northeast" :eek: and followed by information on how to enter my credit card :eek:. So I hung up and dialed again, thinking I misdialed. Same thing. At this point I pulled up my e-mail information for my own conferencing account to check the number, and the actual number for our system isn't even close to what she sent me. So I dialed it, and entered the ID she gave me, which of course wasn't recognized. Then I realized our system uses 6 digit IDs, and she gave me an 8 digit ID.

At that point I called her cell phone, which she answered. I told her I couldn't get to her on the conferencing system with the number she gave me, and she pulled up the e-mail she sent me. After a pause, she said "Oh, oh no. I copy and pasted the wrong information in the e-mail to you. That was supposed to go to someone else." :rolleyes:

Note to all: When sending out conference call information to people in your company for a business call, don't copy and paste the information for your account on an adult phone chat service that charges $9.99 plus $0.99/minute. :eek:

3 - I counted as a failure :(

I had one of a similar feeling that went horribly awry. I was sore for days afterward. Very, very bad.

The TK crash photos are crazy scary. Hard to believe that people walked away. How long until we hear people saying that those aircraft are inherently unsafe?? ;)

Well in this case our "reserve" was our starting price. We weren't willing to accept below that. It looks like several others are interested though, so I'm hoping to see the price on that item start going up soon.

Same here. I only count the flights I was actually on in the total in my signature. I did have one case last year where I sat in Y on the flight I received an EUA on. I showed up at the gate as they were closing the flight, and they let me on (late arriving flight at EWR was the cause) but had already given away my F seat. Y was pretty empty and I didn't argue too much because I was just so glad to be on the flight. I did count that, because I was on that flight, as opposed to being rebooked.