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Nov 23, 2016, 1:46 pm

#151

WineCountryUA

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Since the vast majority did not get the Giveaway miles (including yours truly), let's not flood this thread with "Not me"s -- Let's let the lucky ones gloat in their glory.

WineCountryUA
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And as for the mystery postings -- What are they labeled?
" Your-exclusive-offer " is the http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...30-2016-a.html
May one of the lucky ones can post the label for their reward.

Nov 23, 2016, 1:49 pm

#152

Jimbo2552

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Quote:

Originally Posted by kirkwoodj

Guessing you're joking, but for others I think has to be over $600 to require tax declaration.

Correct.

I also won 5,000, although the email must have been sent to the spam folder... lol

Nov 23, 2016, 1:56 pm

#153

Scott in LA

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Date Description Activity
11/22/2016 2nd Prize Billion Mile Giveaway Winner 5,000

Nov 23, 2016, 5:31 pm

#154

kirkwoodj

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Miles just posted! ^

Nov 23, 2016, 6:51 pm

#155

wilp888

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Miles posted 11/22/16 ^

Nov 23, 2016, 7:55 pm

#156

lax2jfk2lax

Join Date: Apr 2008

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I won 5,000 miles�� what's strange is that I only used the card ONE TIME during the qualification period.

Nov 24, 2016, 8:57 pm

#157

fzwinter

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5,000 miles for me!

Nov 24, 2016, 9:04 pm

#158

SkiAdcock

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mduell

We're a month beyond the claimed drawing date, and weeks beyond the date they were supposed to make the winners available. I'm starting to think it was all a ruse to encourage spend on the MPE.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bonehead

Maybe some folks gamed the system and they're getting it sorted. Pure speculation.

That would be a NO.

Quote:

Originally Posted by WineCountryUA

Any where was that date promised?

All I see in the rules is the

and
to start the process of qualifying them. Other than that there is no timeline.

8 - 12 weeks or even longer is not uncommon for this sort of event.

Best to sit back and just wait. This will happen but on their timeline, not ours.

As for being a ruse, the potential penalties for not completing this are huge. It will happen.

Exactly.

Quote:

Originally Posted by mduell

Certainly gave the impression they'd be announcing winners in a timely manner, without explicitly stating it.

8-12 weeks is a sad joke.

I'm going to give you credit & say you don't enter sweepstakes very much. I've won prizes that I don't get notified for 6 months & they don't get delivered until a few months later. So your comment is a bit off.

Quote:

Originally Posted by RFLP

My daughter was notified last week that she is the grand prize winner-the details are still very unclear-they will give about $7000 to defray the tax-we will see.

Congrats!!!!!

[QUOTE=marquiss22;27515710]I was shocked to see the email today, I actually won 2nd Place - 5K Miles in this promo. I am happy to be one of the 130K 2nd prize winners

Quote:

Originally Posted by as219

I'm a 5K winner as well! Who wouldda thunk it?

Congrats to you both!

Quote:

Originally Posted by mduell

My coworker won the 5k too. Nothin for me.

Happy for your co-worker! However, not so much sympathy for you given the posts above where I quote you kvetching because they didn't respond in a couple of days. Not to point out there were millions of entries. The odds of multiple (any) FTers were slim. FTers are not the whole universe LOL.

For those that said they didn't trust United, etc, this is all done above board/follow legal stuff, etc, you're off base. Sweepstakes in the U.S. are highly regulated. No legit corp/sweeps is going to screw over folk because they'll be in a boatload of trouble legal wise & end up paying penalties.

PS - For those who are interested in travel sweepstakes, FT has a forum for that: Free Travel Contests & Sweepstakes

If you're interested in travel sweeps, please follow in the above link & not in this thread (unless your comments are related to this sweeps specifically).

Cheers.

Last edited by SkiAdcock; Nov 24, 2016 at 9:16 pm

Nov 24, 2016, 9:26 pm

#159

Air Houston

Join Date: Aug 2011

Location: IAH / HOU

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Posts: 2,853

5,000 miles for me. Yeah!

Nov 24, 2016, 10:14 pm

#160

tomwhom

Join Date: May 2016

Location: In btw SJC & SFO

Programs: Marriott Titanium & LTP, Hilton Diamond (Aspire card), Hyatt Globalist, UA Gold (almost free agent)

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11/22/2016 2nd Prize Billion Mile Giveaway Winner 5,000

Only used MP Explorer a few times and just once after got Chase CSR to keep small balance for credit card bureau reporting purpose, won't use much next year either since I got approved for 100k bonus AMXP Platinum card yesterday