Comments on: American Express My Wishlist Starting December 1st

By: CS

CS — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:41:10 +0000

This is not a scam. I won the 2008 Pontiac Solstice GXP from the June 2007 My Wishlist. AMEX was very nice about the whole thing and gave me an extra $10,000 to cover the taxes. I am in no way affiliated with AMEX but will now be a cardholder for the rest of my life!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:52:36 +0000

I won a hot item, two certificates and one item more.

By: browniegrl

browniegrl — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:59:38 +0000

ROTFLMAO!! Some of you people made my day with your comments! Things like, “mywishlist broke my spirit” and “someone had a bunch of homeless people working for him.” PRICELESS!
I admit I get disgruntled when I try and don’t win, but hey, it’s just a game. I *did* actually get an Amazon coupon once. Prolly not worth the 2 hours I spent trying to get one but…whatever, it’s just a GAME…kinda like that multi-tiered coin drop thing where the sliding ledge pushes the coins forward. If you look really hard, you realize the laws of science and gravity are against you, but hey, it harmlessly passes the time and human nature always HOPES to win! What’s wrong with that? No one’s getting hurt (just their spirits broken LOL!), so just sit back and enjoy the ride!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:24:54 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:38:23 +0000

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

By: Steven Subasic

Steven Subasic — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:39:45 +0000

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

By: OhMyItchyKitty

OhMyItchyKitty — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:57:28 +0000

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!

By: Small-time winner

Small-time winner — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:00:37 +0000

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”.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:34:52 +0000

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!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Big Jerk

Big Jerk — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:09:36 +0000

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.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:36:37 +0000

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.

By: fatwalletpride

fatwalletpride — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:58:06 +0000

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

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:48:36 +0000

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.

By: Alfred

Alfred — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:22:36 +0000

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.

By: Helga

Helga — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:04:04 +0000

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.