UPDATE!
To those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, I won a big prize by entering a Dr. Pepper bottlecap code online 2 years ago in February of 2005.
Read this thread first...it will explain everything.
http://www.badmovies.org/forum/index.php/topic,83994.0.html--------------------------------------
After months and months of numerous e-mails and no response, I finally got ahold of the company that ships these prizes!
I ordered all of these prizes back in December immediately after the
Badmovies.org Christmas Drawing.
Month after month went by and nothing was ever shipped.
The contestants never received their prizes.
I sent about 10 e-mails to
www.passpoints.net asking when the stuff was going to be shipped.
No one ever responded.
It made me angry.
Not only did I order the goods for the winners of this contest, but I had also ordered stuff for myself on the same order that never arrived.
In addition to that, I still had exactly $2,134 to spend.
But because no one was answering my e-mails and I couldn't seem to find a phone number that someone would actually answer at Passpoints, I feared that not only would the contestants be screwed out of their prizes, but that I also would never be able to redeem the remaining $2000+ I still had left.
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That all changed when I was digging through some papers recently and found an old invoice from the DVD recorder I ordered from them two years ago.
It had a New Jersey phone number for Passpoints on it that I had never seen before.
I immediately called them up and got a supervisor named Maria on the phone.
I explained my plight to her and she basically said, "
That program has been shut down for months. That's probably why you've never received your stuff."My reaction was a loud, "
WHAT!?"
When I explained to her that the rules of the contest clearly stated that my Passpoints
never expire and questioned why they would shut the program down anyway, she couldn't give me a satisfactory answer.
She just kept saying,
"I don't know...I don't know".
(1 point = $1)
Obviously, someone somewhere along the line at her company blundered.
At first, she was talking like she wasn't going to let me spend the rest of my $2,000...That I was pretty much SOL because I hadn't spent all of my points.
It was only after some smooth talk, and me telling her that I had already paid Federal and State taxes on the prize, that she eventually relented.
(if she had said no and remained firm on her decision, I would've sued them)
She told me,
"You've got 24 hours to spend the rest of your money. Any unspent points will be forfeited."
Holy crap!
24 hours to spend over $2000!
I spent $2,131 in 30 minutes.
No joke.
And I narrowed it down to only 3 points left unspent!
She even made me send in screenshots as proof...which I did.
So, Shadow, Derf and RC, your stuff will be shipped this coming week.
I've already called Shadow and RC on the phone to tell them about this but haven't been able to get ahold of Derf.
I also wanted to post this to let everyone else know that even though it took awhile to get this stuff sent, I did it!
