Marriott Virtual Tour Sweepstakes: error
 

Received an invitation today via email. Answer three true/false questions for a chance at a prize. First answer was correct (Yea!). Next two: undefined. I think it's buggy code. Anyone else have this problem?
PS I turned off my pop-up blocker as requested.
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I got a message that the contest page is currently under "routine maintenance".

Seems to me that it is generally a good idea to have a promotion ready to go before promoting it... :rolleyes:

I have been on that site 2 days now without any issues, got all my answers correct everytime :p , but have not won anything. Has anyone won anything thing from that site?

Has anybody considered the possibility that this might NOT be a Marriott site, but a poser collecting data? I tried to find the "owner" via the registrar of record (whois.register.com), but even the registrar isn't "responding".

I've sent a note to Marriott to see if they can confirm that this is indeed a Marriott affiliated site.

Steve

promo run by eprize.com
 

info as to website www.marriottvirutaltour.com from whois.net: Organization:
ePrize, LLC
Email: [email protected]

This is a company that apparently runs promotions for other companies. Quote from the eprize.com website: "82% of consumers will provide private information in exchange for the chance to win."

The promotion is on the Marriott homepage, I saw it before I even got the email about it. It is legit.

Now it is timing out.

Perhaps we need to start asking Marriott to pick better marketing/promotional/sweepstakes vendors... :rolleyes:

I just completed the tour successfully. Did not win anything instantly. Accessed it though from the Marriott homepage

Have played each day and not won anything yet. If it works like the MyPoints instant win games, certain times of the day are ramdomly chosen as winning times, if you are the first person to complete the game after that random time, you win. The page indicates that answering the questions correctly or incorreclty does not effect your chances of winning.

Jer

www.Eprize.net (see their promotions link on home page) is a legit offeror of such games and contests, including none other than the Trip Rewards Hotels one going on right now, and have done things for AA.com, Hilton Garden Inns, Home Depot, Old Navy, etc. in the past.
As so many people play, and you may play once per day on these sites, your chances of winning are frankly slim. I actually did win one of 1000 cat photo albums (actually pretty big and pretty cool) last month from the current FreshStep.com "lost litter box" promo, so yes, real people do win things... I did note that my "win" was exactly 3pm on the dot. Anyone else note it as a "timed" thing??? I can't say for sure.
Many threads on FT have griped about how many times a person has played and how few times they have won anything... that is "the odds". Mainly, play these to be entertained and have fun, and support a favorite vendor.

FYI.... I did get back a message from Marriott yesterday saying this is indeed a Marriott sponsored promotion.

Steve

Correcting the spelling error made in the link supplied by ohmark (thanks, btw):

http://www.marriottvirtualtour.com

Good luck everyone!

I just "checked in" and here's the screen that displayed after I submitted my email address:

Proxy Error
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request GET /index.tbapp.

Reason: Document contains no data



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Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.marriottvirtualtour.com Port 80[/SIZE]

A complete waste of time if you ask me. maybe because I'm alwaying flying somewhere and sleeping somewhere new..lol

I have one loads of prizes from eprize. They are a legit company and handle promotions for a huge number of fortune 100 companies.