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Re: IHG Promotion - Minimum 47k points for $46.06
« Reply #40 on: November 04, 2015, 12:36:05 PM »
Would be easier to just stick a stack of envelopes in a printer and print on the addresses, I would think
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Re: IHG Promotion - Minimum 47k points for $46.06
« Reply #41 on: November 04, 2015, 12:45:24 PM »
Not the address IMO
"To enter without completing the minimum two Qualifying Stays, hand print your full name, complete mailing address, day and evening phone numbers, valid email address, member number, the first six (6) digits of your MasterCard and date of birth on a 3″ x 5″ piece of paper and mail it in an envelope with proper postage to “IHG and MasterCard® Priceless Surprises® Promotion,” c/o HelloWorld, Inc., P.O. Box 5996, Kalamazoo, MI 49003-5996."

Sentence construction dictates that it too must be handwritten. Otherwise, only your name has to be hand printed. Its a bunch of requirements separated by commas and finished off with the word "and".

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IHG Promotion - Minimum 47k points for $46.06
« Reply #42 on: November 04, 2015, 12:46:15 PM »
Your address, not their address. Bulk labels to our addresses wouldn't help stone rose :)

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Re: IHG Promotion - Minimum 47k points for $46.06
« Reply #43 on: November 04, 2015, 01:05:39 PM »
"To enter without completing the minimum two Qualifying Stays, hand print your full name, complete mailing address, day and evening phone numbers, valid email address, member number, the first six (6) digits of your MasterCard and date of birth on a 3″ x 5″ piece of paper and mail it in an envelope with proper postage to “IHG and MasterCard® Priceless Surprises® Promotion,” c/o HelloWorld, Inc., P.O. Box 5996, Kalamazoo, MI 49003-5996."

Sentence construction dictates that it too must be handwritten. Otherwise, only your name has to be hand printed. Its a bunch of requirements separated by commas and finished off with the word "and".

So many threads should be linked together today.  ;D

That seems pretty clear that only whatever is written on the index card has to be handwritten.

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Re: IHG Promotion - Minimum 47k points for $46.06
« Reply #44 on: November 04, 2015, 01:36:48 PM »
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I don't think it's a big chance. How can you read the rules to require a handwritten address for them?
If the people in charge of their best rate guarantee, are in charge of this too.... Deffinetly a big chance.

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Re: IHG Promotion - Minimum 47k points for $46.06
« Reply #45 on: November 04, 2015, 01:38:33 PM »

..If the people in charge of their best rate guarantee, are in charge of this too.... Deffinetly a big chance.

They could possibly get sued w big ramifications for changing their t&c on this

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Re: IHG Promotion - Minimum 47k points for $46.06
« Reply #46 on: November 04, 2015, 07:08:14 PM »
Can someone explain the odds to me for the points prizes? I can't make sense of the math (and I'm a mathematician). Can someone turn the odds to probabilities?

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Re: IHG Promotion - Minimum 47k points for $46.06
« Reply #47 on: November 04, 2015, 07:47:01 PM »
Can someone explain the odds to me for the points prizes? I can't make sense of the math (and I'm a mathematician). Can someone turn the odds to probabilities?


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Re: IHG Promotion - Minimum 47k points for $46.06
« Reply #48 on: November 04, 2015, 07:51:04 PM »


A couple of people in the comments did that.
ok, I'm not going crazy. They don't add to 100% for whatever reason.

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Re: IHG Promotion - Minimum 47k points for $46.06
« Reply #49 on: November 04, 2015, 07:58:16 PM »
ok, I'm not going crazy. They don't add to 100% for whatever reason.
Perhaps because you're not guaranteed to win every time?

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Re: IHG Promotion - Minimum 47k points for $46.06
« Reply #50 on: November 04, 2015, 07:58:35 PM »

Perhaps because you're not guaranteed to win every time?
probably but t&c aren't clear

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Re: IHG Promotion - Minimum 47k points for $46.06
« Reply #51 on: November 04, 2015, 08:13:38 PM »
Can someone explain the odds to me for the points prizes? I can't make sense of the math (and I'm a mathematician). Can someone turn the odds to probabilities?
Ha, if Mr FCAS at 24 can't figure it out then there must be something screwy with their numbers.
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Re: IHG Promotion - Minimum 47k points for $46.06
« Reply #52 on: November 04, 2015, 08:22:27 PM »

Ha, if Mr FCAS at 24 can't figure it out then there must be something screwy with their numbers.
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Re: IHG Promotion - Minimum 47k points for $46.06
« Reply #53 on: November 08, 2015, 07:35:12 PM »
That seems pretty clear that only whatever is written on the index card has to be handwritten.

I'm thinking the same but don't want to risk having ineligible entries due to the envelope. Anyone else thinking of printing the addresses on the envelopes? Just finished writing all 94 index cards.

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Re: IHG Promotion - Minimum 47k points for $46.06
« Reply #54 on: November 08, 2015, 07:36:12 PM »
Someone want to wiki all the details?
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Re: IHG Promotion - Minimum 47k points for $46.06
« Reply #55 on: November 08, 2015, 07:37:33 PM »
Someone want to wiki all the details?
I have a post typed up. Figured I'd publish on the 15th.
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Re: IHG Promotion - Minimum 47k points for $46.06
« Reply #56 on: November 08, 2015, 07:38:29 PM »
???
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Re: IHG Promotion - Minimum 47k points for $46.06
« Reply #57 on: November 08, 2015, 07:40:35 PM »
I have a post typed up. Figured I'd publish on the 15th.
Maybe preview here so we can get a head start?
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Re: IHG Promotion - Minimum 47k points for $46.06
« Reply #58 on: November 08, 2015, 08:42:52 PM »

someone found out your secret identity

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Re: IHG Promotion - Minimum 47k points for $46.06
« Reply #59 on: November 08, 2015, 08:59:08 PM »
Maybe preview here so we can get a head start?
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