Royal Free Shipping not working?

[jrljel]

Anyone else having issues with the royalfreeshipping.com site?  Contest was supposed to go live at 12:01 am but it still isn't showing the contest.  Only redirecting to Royal's main site.  Sooo frustrated!

[CruiseBride926]

They canceled it. I received an email about it last night.

[jrljel]

50 minutes ago, CruiseBride926 said:

They canceled it. I received an email about it last night.

 

[jrljel]

Really?  So not giving away free cruises?  Interesting.  Thanks.

[Coralc]

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[jrljel]

Thanks.  I am shocked that they pulled this promo since they touted it so much.  I suspect that the IT department couldn't handle all the requests on the website.

[Biker19]

13 minutes ago, jrljel said:

I suspect that the IT department couldn't handle all the requests on the website.

Or, marketing came to their senses, and decided it's not worth it.

[smokeybandit]

56 minutes ago, jrljel said:

Thanks.  I am shocked that they pulled this promo since they touted it so much.  I suspect that the IT department couldn't handle all the requests on the website.

They never formally announced the promo

[rockmom]

1 hour ago, jrljel said:

Thanks.  I am shocked that they pulled this promo since they touted it so much.  I suspect that the IT department couldn't handle all the requests on the website.

They definitely never touted it.  Only after people started asking on Twitter if it was 'legit' did someone from royal reply to a tweet that it was theirs because people felt like it was a scam because it was a separate website from Royal's and nowhere on the official site was anything posted about it.  I think it was probably a 'leak' that one of the travel sites picked up (Travel + Leisure) and then news sites reported about it too, but only through linking the Travel + Leisure story.  So they only replied to one tweet and then sent out emails saying that the promotion was not going to happen, but to not worry if you'd submitted your email to be notified because it truly was a Royal site and no one had their email compromised.  If you think about how they got over 250,000 people emailing them when they first asked about if anyone was interested in doing test cruises, you can imagine how many would have jumped on this--even with it only being available for people in the U.S.  They would have broken the internet, haha.  Still a bummer to not be able to at least try to win though.  

[Btank]

1 hour ago, smokeybandit said:

They never formally announced the promo

They announced it on Twitter.