American Express My Wishlist Starting November 28th
American Express sent me a postcard the other day notifying me that they are running the My Wishlist promotion again and this time the gifts are pretty incredible… I wouldn’t mind getting a Porsche for five large or even an Aquos for nine hundred bones.
Here are the big ones (worth mentioning in their press release anyway) this time around:
- Porsche Cayman Coupe for $5,000.00
- Tahiti Regent Cruise Packages for $2500.00
- Callaway FT-3 Fusion Titanium Drivers for $175.00
- Sharp Aquos Televisions for $900.00
More information at AMEX.
Need an American Express card? There are a couple on this list of credit cards giving free gift cards after your first purchase and you’ll have to act fast, My Wishlist is starting up in about a week..
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What a spam. The site requires you to type in the scrambled letters (to prevent people from automatically submitting a request) but it does not work. After 15 attempts where it comes back as an error, it says the “item is very popular, to try again later”. Did anyone ever get this to work?
It may be a joke to American Express to watch their customer’s sit for an hour typing in scrambled letters with the hope of winning one of the items. I guess someone has to win - and lots have to lose. My thoughts is that they should offer more items at the discounted price (perhaps not the porsche, but surely the dinnerware). They have millions of customers, but can only afford to sell 75 sets of dinnerware valued at $249.99 for $100.00 each - what big hearts those folks at American Express have. WASTE OF TIME!
I normally love AMEX and their promotions, but this one sucks. You never get through and they don’t tell you right away the all the items are spoken for. I’ve ended up sitting for an hour typing in those darn codes only to come up empty handed. I emailed AMEX (like that would help) and told them this is a quick way to upset their customers. Alas, I am only one person, I don’t think they would care if I used their card or someone else’s.
AMERICAN EXPRESS WISH LIST IS A SCAM!! TRY FOR HOURS TO TYPE IN CODES AND NEVER WIN………………… AFTER SPENDING OVER $300,000.00 dollars with them this year alone I would think they would send me something I would not have to work for. Very upset card member.
This is a total scam, I tried many times, entering the code, Every time I get , you missed the item is already in someone’s cart /or some time simply try again, after few minutes you get, item sold, please come again.
People come out and let others know, you actually got this thing worked and finally you were able to buy the product at the discounted price. How many of you got the item?. just a simple yes and no will reveal this works and is it good to ditch the amex promotion.
Ditto…this is a total scam. The deal for the Porsche was too good to be true…and it was! Wonder who actually won the supposedly 3 Cayennes that were for sale? Probably AMEX employees/IT people or rather executives or their cronies who have an inside deal. Reminiscent of the McDonald’s Monopoly Game scam:
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/LAW/08/21/monopoly.arrests/index.html
Perhaps someone can tell the news wires about this scam. Someone at AMEX should be held accountable.
RJ35
this is a total piece of SHIT. a waste of time. they ought to outlaw it.
what a hoax. taking my business elsewhere.
what a hoax.
Everytime I punch in the scrambled letters, the item has already been spoken for, or the letters I typed in were in error. I always double check the letters before submitting them and I have never inputted anything erroneously, but AMEX is quick to tell me I have. This has happened countless of times and I am thinking this is a scam. On the one hand if you get through and type in the scrambled letters, someone has already beat you to it or you typed in the wrong letters. I am thinking AMEX already knows who the winners are in advance and unless you are one of them, you are going to get the responses I mentioned.
Is there any one who won anything out of this AmericanExpress wish list stuff? I dont know any body, but I would like to know whether it is a hoax or it is my badlack, before calling it hoax.
best.
I feel I am being taken for a ride in this promotion- wasting my time and breaking my spirit- for a chance to buy- a neat car or fabulous trip!
Nobody can win. I tried to: I’m fed up and really pissed off… How they can type so fast before us (my wife type, I click)? Conclusion: it’s a scam
Last year I did win a discount certificate for Best Buy. But this year, I did make it to the screen that popped up and said you got it, only to hit continue and the next screen says there is an error in your transaction!!! This happened three times and I phoned American Express. The CSR said that the error meant it was sold out! Hello, I always thought “you got it”, meant you got it!
Well.. doesnt AMEX have to publish a list of the winners?
I agree it’s total bullshit I did the same as the rest of you and got nothing. Hey if any of you Cayman winners got Balls speak up I’ll wire you $45,000.00 for your $5,000 investment. I will destroy my Amex card. Wow I thought I got screwed I only spent $8,000.00 this year somebody in an earlier post says they spent $300,000.00 they should have given the the Porsche to that person!
I totally agree that this is A BIG SCAM. I can not even go trought with their feature product. when I hit I want it button it tell me ” your transaction cannot complete at this time “.
I think what they do is try to get new people to signup to get card because it require become member to participate.
I tried everyday for one week and I got the same thing as all of you guys. Waste of my time. I hope they announce the winners and they better not to family members.
I was able to get the Logitech Wireless DJ music thing. I went through the same iterations described above with no problem and received a confimation for the purchase. Granted, my item is not some large ticket item and there were suppose to be a bunch of units. It was still a savings or $100+ over anywhere else online.
They do publish a list of winners for the MyWish thing that happens in November:
http://mywishlist.mylifemycard.com/seewhogotit.html
It’s not the same as what we’re talking about, but maybe they’ll publish the winner of the current items.
I actually won 2 items and a 25% gift certificate. It wasn’t the porsche but I still have a couple more tries for that.
For those of you who don’t like the holiday promotion: Don’t participate!!!
wow…. someone actually won from the website that was listed above. However, as people mentioned, it was wasted of time. It might be easy to buy those small items instead of larger items. I agree that AE should have more items up there like Citi Reward. Happy Holidays!
I don’t think that AMEX has to publish the names of the people because this is not a contest.
You are basically getting a very good deal with all the listed items. I also think that it is a scam of some sort.
How can you start clicking before the designated start time and have someone already have spoken for it.
I guess thta they do publish the lucky buyers names
Thanks JP
I just wish they would tell me when all the items are gone so I dont sit there hitting try again for like 15 minutes. Or maybe that isnt how it works. Maybe they choose somebody randomly who keeps trying at it. I wish they would tell us.
Are you people seriously using your *not* winning as some kind of evidence that the thing is a scam? Was your impression that AmEx would just give away cars to all comers with 5 minutes and a keyboard? Tell me I am misunderstanding you…
Do you have any idea how many American Express cardholders there are in the country? The vast majority of these people are as adept at typing and clicking enter as you are.
Scam? Hardly.
I’d say that the small items could actually be sold at the discounted price, but the items on this page (http://mywishlist.mylifemycard.com/seewhogotit.html) are probably fake. AMEX could’ve use computer-generated names and just selected a random city to put in as winner’s list. In conclusion I’d say the big prizes are scams, which pisses many of us card members here off.
In my opinion, they need to rework the contest. The way I see it, items are either available or they are not. When they say that somebody else claimed it already, but try again anyways it seems to me like they are only trying to waste your time.
It is either a cruel joke to waste a bunch of time, the items do not exist, or they need to select the winners differently and inform others who are trying that they lost already.
well, I agree with all of you. And what is worst, what about the one that saYS: IT IS TOO EARLY!! when you are seeing the clock and it says IT IS TIME???
I agree that the people who wins whe cars are related to the American Express, I am real fast typer, a real fast one!! and one I click it already said: IT IS TOO EARLY or it is in another member’s car. What? American Express, you wishlist sucks, why dont you better send random letters to your clients and tell them they won with out the hassle of typing and wating our time, because at the end you will give only a few, better to send letters.
okay, so I’m trying to buy the motokrzr, and I hit the try again button, it gives me the captcha screen, I enter the code, then it says that the item is already in somebody else’s card…everybody else getting the same error?
Yes, I also wasted my time. Had I read these responses before, I would have not tried at all. I was wondering why I get same somebody else’s cart message even if 100 items are out there. Why don’t they publish all 100 names.
It’s great to know there are as many stupid people around here to save us all the prizes!!! There are two online communities that take back 60% of the items, as well as having a porsche winner and a previous BMW winner.
Yes it’s a complete scam. Don’t even think about wasting your time!
wow… now I see where all the losers of the contest hang out… If you spend $300k/yr maybe you could hire an 8 year old to win you something off of it - it’s not hard.
This is definitely a scam. On one of the other boards there’s a guy that hired a lot of homeless people to type in captchas (??) to help him win prizes. They’ve also decoded the XML that runs the site and have a big advantage over normal players. I did score a major victory by winning a coupon for Bed Bath & Beyond, which was way cool though! Stupid cheaters.
Someone does win! But the hype has spread and more people are trying to win and thus making it harder.
I WON!!! About a year ago, I got a $16K Kawasaki Vulcan 2000 LTD for only $1500. Then they even sent me a check for about $5.5K to cover my taxes on the winnings.
AMEX is Awesome!!!!!!!! Keep trying (I mean its a scam don’t waste your time, I don’t want the competition.) =)
What a complete bunch of whiners!
Complaining that you didn’t win a contest — Give me a break!
I instantly saved 25% on an Amazon purchase, and I wasn’t typing for hours
You guys need to get a life and complain about real problems!
I don’t think it is a scam. If you think so, then it’s the same as Lottery losers saying the lottery is a scam because they did not win. This year, I won 3 25% certificates (be it that they are the not-so-popular ones) for Blockbuster, Kodak digital print and Bed-Bath and Beyond. At least this proves they give what they offer. I believe a company as big as Amex cannot scam easily and get away with it. Does this makes sense. Just my two cents…
I don’t know how their system works but I click on the “Want It” link the moment Amex’s clock turned 12:00 and did not win.
I entered the stupid #s and letters today for a couple of hours. I managed to win one of the Best Buy gift cards, so its not a total scam. It is annoying when they tell you its in someone else’s cart. Probably not the best use of my time today.
Yes it was very frustrating to see the “it is not time” when it was time and the “it’s in someone else’s cart but try again”. It would be better to let us know quickly that for most of us we missed it. I did get a borders 25% off card without to many tries so it does work. We are just not all lucky enough to win the big items.
I also have been trying for days to get something…
I was luck to get one of the wishlist items. Nothing too big, just the Geneva Labs Model L. Retails for over $700 and got it for $175.
Everythings confirmed via email after I won and entered all the credit card and shipping info.
So it’s not a scam. You just have to be very lucky.
This contest does suck. AMEX says they are trying to give back to their customers in appreciation. What about millions of people who lost after wasting time typing scrambled letters away??? I am not going to make a claim that this is a scam or not but I am going to say that AMEX does need a better contest than this.
They should give smaller items but have larger quantities available. The customers shouldn’t also have to sit and try to type away for hours. There are lots of issues some people who want the items just as badly may not be typist. There are latency issues with time clicking thru different networks - The clock may be slower dependent on your internet connection, network travel. No one has a fair opportunity due to distances from the AMEX host system.
AMEX should randomly select winners and send them the option to buy at discounted prices.
In all AMEX only disappointed millions just to satisfy a handful of people.
I won’t be wasting my time with them again.
again — I repeat — what a bunch of whiners on this blog
go to a real forum like fatwallet and you guys would all be flamed red for being idiots
Well, I did get a “You Got It” on my cell for a Zune. I was very happy, but as of today and 4 phone call later, I still do not have the item. It was billed to my card on Dec 2, they have had enough time for it to be shipped. On the last call, I was told that none of the items were guanteed for Christmas. I find this very sad, because I did not get a high ticket item, but did get a great deal, but they should be making good on it and have it to me by Christmas. I also spent time trying for other items, the fact that I did not win did not upset me, but winning, paying for the item and not receiving it, that upset me.
Just recieved the Callaway FT-3 Fusion driver which I paid $198 including shipping. Looking on eBay the same club is selling for $150 or less. My bad. I should have looked first.
I also recieved the part of the flatware set today. Also something I didn’t need.
And I also got a few certificates as well.
I believe this works like a lottery. You need to enter the code correctly or you wasted that opportunity to get it. The “You Got It” came up 3+ minutes after the hour. Fast typing may help a little, but only if you are accurate.
BTW, there are far to many winers here.
Hey I won something on 11/30/06 - sort of.
I won a $50 UPS Store gift card that I thought I would to ship my holiday gifts. But today is 12/20/06 and I have yet to receive anything. I have called twice once after about 10 days to stay I have not heard anything. Their response was we had a delay but you should receive it in a couple of days. Well I called today and was first told it will go out this week- big help as all my shipping is done for the year. Then when I spoke to a manager he informed hat it had already shipped. I asked that they replace this with something else (that I might be able to use at this point) - they said there wss nothing they could do. Everything they had was accounted for. It wasn’t like I was aking for a real prize - I asled for a $20% off coupon at Home Depot not a freee $150 to Best Buy. I will cancel my AMEXcard taht I have had since 1982 - see yah AMEX!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know that the contest is frustrating because most times you don’t win; but sometimes you do. Each year I’ve won something. Aside from general whining by people who can’t spell when they post (so its hard to believe they can correctly type the code sequences as they claim), one of the main conplaints is the “it’s in another members cart (as in “shopping cart”, not “car” or “card” like the whiners state). What that means is that someone else has the item in their shopping cart, and they have a fixed time (I think it was 6 minutes) to complete the transaction, or the item is up for grabs again. All my wins have come from this second-try type situation. Apparently people with fast-click fingers aren’t always better at following simple instructions than the whiners here.
Don’t waste time whining that you didn’t win. Remember that the word for people who don’t win is “LOSER”.
Puh-leeze…
If American Express just pulled the damn thing, you people would have nothing to bitch about, and you wouldn’t get anything. At least they are offering something. How many other companies do it? You should check Ebay and see how many people won what. There are enough of them selling the stuff there. I won the Best Buy certificate (again) this year and didn’t complete the transaction. I wanted the Amazon certificate, since it was really worth something. Wonder if I’ll get anywhere by whinning to the state lottery about not winning. That must be a scam too. I enjoy just the thought of possibly winning a Porsche for so little money, or some of the other beautiful stuff that was offered. My family and friends are all a bunch of cheap bastids (I prefer that spelling, thank you very much) and am very grateful to American Express for even giving me the chance to say “ha ha” by winning a car, since I got squat from them for Christmas. So, all of you just shut the hell up and go back to work, and stop pissing away your companys time on the computer with this crap!
It is not a scam it is just very hard to get through, I tried and got through on items such as the gibson guitar, bestbuy giftcard, and a few other things but I didnt buy anything i just wanted to see if i could get it
Amex is hoax. Just want to lure in customers but we never get anything out of their add promotion. I just know they coned me for $150. yearly membership automatic charged on my account and deducted from my bank even before I knew it. From now on I return to my discover card for which I did not pay a dime for but always got cash back. Points are just good to hear but never can redeem. Cash back from the Discover Card is excellent. I got at least $500 back for every six to seven months.
Peter Phung
dr.phung@comcast.net
It’s a great way for Amex to test their site. Also, some people probably even signed up their card just trying to get the prize.
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