Some of the unknown dog readers may remember getting their hands on Travelzoo stock back in the “dot com” boom days. The stuff could be had for free, all one had to do was ask for it. I believe it was TJM that tipped me to it.
Anyways, I sent my request out and got some Travelzoo stock. I filed it away somewhere and forgot about it. Time passes….
The next time I hear about Travelzoo it is a couple years ago, and I found out that I missed the deadline to handle my shares correctly. Curses! I console myself with thoughts that I probably didn’t miss out on much.
Now, Wired News has a story on how I screwed myself. As Wired puts it:
As of Tuesday[Nov 23], the stock closed at just over $82, giving the free shares an approximate value of $500 to $1,600
All may not be lost, but there are some procedures and paperwork to be filled out and I happen to have zero documentation. Not so good for me. I am hoping the TJM is a better archivist than I am and can tell me the email address I might have registered with Travelzoo. This is a necessary piece of information for me, since I lack the serial numbers necessary to redeem my lost stock for anything besides a hard luck story.
Unfortunately, I can’t help much, but under that ‘paperwork’ link the form “Election to Participate” is the one you want to fill out. The good news is that if you can remember what e-mail address you used to register, that should be all you need. If you can’t remember, I might recommend filling out the form a few times and sending them all in with the different possibilities.
The other way to do it is to provide the serial numbers for the stock. I happen to have those for mine, but of course not yours. I’m not sure that I have all of mine either. I know I never got to the limit of 10, which sucks for me, but I have a few.
actually, what I am hoping is that you would know the email address to which you sent your invites to me. that would pretty much settle what email addy i used.
I mailed off my attempt to cash this sucker in today, so I’ll let you know if I get any dough in the mail.
This is some crazy shit. This is the first I’ve heard about any of this, as far as I can recall. How come nobody told me to go get any free stock, you mother f-ers?