Star Alliance (*A) (in partnership with Global Hotel Alliance) just posted this on their facebook page.
Over the next 11 days on its Facebook page, *A will be offering clues for a different destination each day. Winners will be selected from all entries that correctly guessed the 11 mystery destinations based on the clues provided by *A.
The prize is 2 Business Class Round The World Tickets and 30 hotel nights in Global Hotel Alliance Hotels. Winners can create their own itinerary, subject to the terms and conditions of the contest. The cash value of the trip is estimated to be approximately $32,000.
@jcmitchell: I’ve looked at RTW in C, and it generally is around 12K/person, add in 30 nights of hotels and it adds up to about $32K.
@G David: If you denied access to all apps that requested all that info, you wouldn’t be able to use any apps. Basically everything out there gets permission for all of these, and none of them have ever abused that. Also, you can revoke access at any time.
I usually enter contests like this, but not this one. They require you giving them WAY too much access to your Facebook account. From the App allow screen:
“Access my basic information
Includes name, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends, and any other information I’ve made public.
Access my profile information
Likes, Music, TV, Movies, Books, Quotes
Send me email
Global Pursuit may email me directly at *my email address”.
Post to Facebook as me
Global Pursuit may post status messages, notes, photos, and videos on my behalf”
The first one is fine – all apps do that. Access my profile info? Ok. Automatically opt me in to an email list to send me messages outside of FB? Uhh, sure, why not? But the last one on that list – allowing them to post to facebook AS ME? Nope, sorry. Not letting you have that much access for a contest that I have a 1 in 500,000 chance of winning. Not cool T&C, and I’ve told them as much on their FB account.
looks like its working….was just able to enter.
Could it be argued that the “real” cost of the trip for us point collectors would be far less than that?
Site us down for the moment as they fix glitches in the Global Pursuit promotion entry form. Should be up again later today.