10,000 bonus points per 20 transactions

[NSWhere]

My niche in academia is probably best described as financial sociology. Though my focus is elsewhere, my work has involved the study of group dynamics and pyschology. Perhaps for these reasons I find your recent antics, Rodgerbranch, fascinating.

I have so many questions, some of the first that come to mind are:

What was your motivation for investing effort into deceiving a bunch of strangers who have no tangible impact on your life?
Was this behaviour just a confused form of visualisation and you have also fooled youself into believing that you were given those points?
How do you predict your revelation of your spending patterns (stores/$ etc) will affect your standing in this community?
Did you believe that errors such as non-aligned figures would go unnoticed in a forum dominated by individuals with IT expertise?
How do you feel now that your deception has become apparent?
What do you think are the most important factors leading to your quasi-obsession with Disney?

 

[beardoc]

I just rang Amex as I checked my account and my points have still not been transferred. Apparently their IT department is experiencing 'technical issues' preventing the transfer of points across. I was told this was an "across the board" issue affecting all users expecting their points and should be resolved in 1-2 days.....hmmmmmmm

More "stalling" - there aren't technical difficulties that they're talking about - this is just the line that they're giving whilst they decide what to do. If you haven't lodged a complaint with the BFSO, do so now.

 

[JohnK]

*edit* Images inlined for those of us unable to see the fake page

I still cannot see the fake page.

 

[serfty]

Maybe it's blocked by your company's firewalls or similar.

Try next time you're at a QP ...

 

[Flashback]

Maybe it's blocked by your companie's firewalls or similar.

Try next time you're at a QP ...

I think JohnK has 3 Mobile Broadband, so perhaps he could try tonight.

 

[JohnK]

Maybe it's blocked by your company's firewalls or similar.

Try next time you're at a QP ...

I think JohnK has 3 Mobile Broadband, so perhaps he could try tonight.

It could well be blocked by the firewall at work. I shall have another look tonight....

 

[zig]

Re: All points have been paid

The colour scheme is correct for cards such as the Ultimate card.

On the other hand, the fact that every single page indicates it is showing transactions 1-20 is more suspect

The colour scheme is correct for the Ultimate Card, however the Ultimate Card earns 1.5 points / $, the pages shown by Roger Branch are only earning 1:1.

 

[Aggi]

Just out of interest, has anyone sent a letter to Amex and have Amex acknowledge that they have received it? I posted a registered letter on the 10 January and have the delivery confirmation dated at 14 January, yet calling Amex today they claim to have no record of it. Does all their mail go straight into a shredder I wonder?
I am in the same boat as others in that I had registered for the 20/5 and then 5/5 promotion and Amex have moved me to the 10/5 one (without any notification). So I will fax them a copy of my letter tomorrow and if they still maintain that I am on the 10/5 then off to the BFSO I go.

 

[NSWhere]

Yeah, I was in the same boat. Two letters sent a month apart via registered post, I also sent a fax. Waited another month and contacted the BFSO, that was nearly a month ago now and I'm still waiting to hear of any real action. Best you set that ball in motion ASAP I'd say.

 

[simongr]

Maybe it's blocked by your company's firewalls or similar.

It was certainly blocked by mine...along with most other distractions...

 

[vet]

Yeah, I was in the same boat. Two letters sent a month apart via registered post, I also sent a fax. Waited another month and contacted the BFSO, that was nearly a month ago now and I'm still waiting to hear of any real action. Best you set that ball in motion ASAP I'd say.

I went simultaneouslty to fos and amex. Off hand I think it took from 7th Nov to 2 December to resolve, but the actual written confirmation arrived just before Xmas.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Re: All points have been paid

On the other hand, the fact that every single page indicates it is showing transactions 1-20 is more suspect

Well in my case they are always in multiples of 20. So I have the same pattern
1 - 20 | 21 - 40 | 41 - 60 | 61 - 80 | 81 - 100 | 101 - 120 | 121 - 140 | 141 - 160 | 161 - 180 | 181 - 200 | 201 - 220 | 221 - 240 | 241 - 260 | 261 - 280 | 281 - 300 | 301 - 320 | 321 - 340 | 341 - 360 | 361 - 380 | 381 - 400 | 401 - 420 | 421 - 440 | 441 - 460 | 461 - 480 | 481 - 500 | 501 - 520 | 521 - 540 | 541 - 560 etc...

 

[oz_mark]

Re: All points have been paid

Well in my case they are always in multiples of 20. So I have the same pattern
1 - 20 | 21 - 40 | 41 - 60 | 61 - 80 | 81 - 100 | 101 - 120 | 121 - 140 | 141 - 160 | 161 - 180 | 181 - 200 | 201 - 220 | 221 - 240 | 241 - 260 | 261 - 280 | 281 - 300 | 301 - 320 | 321 - 340 | 341 - 360 | 361 - 380 | 381 - 400 | 401 - 420 | 421 - 440 | 441 - 460 | 461 - 480 | 481 - 500 | 501 - 520 | 521 - 540 | 541 - 560 etc...

No doubt, but if you click on the link for say 21-40 you go to that page, and the 21-40 becomes greyed out, and the link for 1-20 is enabled. You can tell which page you are on simply by looking at which link is greyed out and not enabled.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Re: All points have been paid

No doubt, but if you click on the link for say 21-40 you go to that page, and the 21-40 becomes greyed out, and the link for 1-20 is enabled. You can tell which page you are on simply by looking at which link is greyed out and not enabled.

True...but playing Devil's Advocate (not that I am defending RB) IF RB had saved each screenshot when in was the page 1-20..(ie on different dates and not the same day)it would show like that.

 

[aus_flyer]

Points for November (only) appear to have just posted to accounts!

Hope everyone has some joy!

 

[creeno]

My Nov points have posted this evening too...

 

[file51]

Confirming the same.

The text description has changed though, however the points are exactly what I expected for November.

03/02/2009 Spend Promotion - NOV

 

[diesmile]

Nov points up, but doesn't really add up.

i am missing total about 15k points from sep, oct and nov, but i guess i will let it go.

 

[Mal]

Paid here too - more points than I actually should have got?


Still Amex isn't up to date with their owing balance for me though.

 

[js]

Hmmm no Nov points for me yet