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Post by Zoe (Illinois) on Sept 22, 2018 7:14:14 GMT -5
Once again yesterday, I got an extra 400 points for reviewing a Pilot station and another 400 points for reviewing a Flying J station.
Got 500 points for another monkey survey, which I did not complete because it had nothing to do with gasoline or GB, but still received the points. 
Received 1,000 points yesterday for completing the "Fuel Up for School" Challenge for the third week of September. 
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Post by Zoe (Illinois) on Sept 28, 2018 6:39:53 GMT -5
Got the extra 1,000 points today for completing the "Fuel Up for School" Challenge for the fourth (and last) week of September.
I was able to complete four out of four weeks of the Short Bus Challenge for an extra 4,000 points in September. 😎 👍 😁
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Post by TheFlashman on Sept 28, 2018 8:50:43 GMT -5
The last day of the "Fuel Up for School" Challenge.
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Post by TheFlashman on Sept 28, 2018 10:41:06 GMT -5
The last day of the "Fuel Up for School" Challenge.  |
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Post by Pigeon007 on Oct 1, 2018 22:42:01 GMT -5
It appears only 1 post per night counts towards the Midnight Rider.
So you have to post 13 out of 31 nights.
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Post by Zoe (Illinois) on Oct 8, 2018 14:27:09 GMT -5
True, Pigeon007, but 13 out of 31 is a whole lot easier to achieve than 20 posts in 20 days, Monday through Friday between 6-9 AM for the Short Bus Speshul Challenge. 😋 😊
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Post by isawitcheap on Oct 12, 2018 9:24:44 GMT -5
Pilot and Flying J challenges today. 400 points each
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Post by TheFlashman on Oct 12, 2018 9:58:46 GMT -5
Pilot and Flying J challenges today. 400 points each I hate these challenges. All of these stations are 20 miles or more from my house! My comments in the review are getting nastier each time. It's ok to have one say every 6 months, but not every 3 weeks. Where's the same challenges for Shell, Exxon and Texaco? |
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Post by Zoe (Illinois) on Oct 13, 2018 0:07:20 GMT -5
Pilot and Flying J challenges today. 400 points each I hate these challenges. All of these stations are 20 miles or more from my house! My comments in the review are getting nastier each time. It's ok to have one say every 6 months, but not every 3 weeks. Where's the same challenges for Shell, Exxon and Texaco?  Would be nice to get some different stations offered in the challenges sometimes. |
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Post by SUVFan on Oct 14, 2018 20:13:25 GMT -5
I hate these challenges. All of these stations are 20 miles or more from my house! My comments in the review are getting nastier each time. It's ok to have one say every 6 months, but not every 3 weeks. Where's the same challenges for Shell, Exxon and Texaco? My sense is that Pilot/Flying J/Mr Fuel are commonly owned and that the company pays GB for highlighting them the various ways they do, including via these special challenges. No proximity is required to rate the stations, so as long as I've been to the station fairly recently, if I feel like I can give a fair rating, I do. For a while Bell Stores and Phillips 66 were frequent fliers, too, but I have not seen either in quite a while. Gashole has noted Wawa challenges from time to time, too. I travel over to PA sometimes, and at least a couple of times there's been an active Wawa challenge I was able to complete -- download their app was the most recent one, I think. I still believe all the points should be available to everyone the way it was originally, but GB decided that one against me years ago and doesn't appear to be looking back. |
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Post by Zoe (Illinois) on Oct 15, 2018 11:21:10 GMT -5
I haven't completed the Midnight Rider Challenge yet. Although I should have, because I have posted every evening for 14 nights so far between 8 PM - Midnight. For some reason two (2) of those postings have not counted. Typical GB BS stuff happening with this. I'm just glad that didn't happen with the Fuel Up for School (Short Bus) Challenge where it was 20 posts in 20 days Monday through Friday without exception and no room for error or missed posts.
By the way, as I have stated before in here, I actually set alarms in my cell phone in order to not miss posting during all the weird times, like the SNO and others. That's why it's weird and off-putting that I didn't complete this Midnight Rider Challenge in the first 13 nights of October, especially since the posts were made each night within the given time frame. 😐
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Post by isawitcheap on Oct 15, 2018 19:05:58 GMT -5
Zoe said: "I haven't completed the Midnight Rider Challenge yet. Although I should have, because I have posted every evening for 14 nights so far between 8 PM - Midnight."
I wonder if you might have crossed the state line and ended up in Eastern time after Midnight eastern and thought you were still 11pm Central??
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Post by Zoe (Illinois) on Oct 16, 2018 6:34:53 GMT -5
Finally finished the Midnight Rider challenge last night. It took me 15 days instead of 13 to complete though.
So I am one of the GB members who has a clown badge for this challenge and am one of the "exactly 500 more than" yesterday that GasHole mentioned in the Points thread. Zoe said: "I haven't completed the Midnight Rider Challenge yet. Although I should have, because I have posted every evening for 14 nights so far between 8 PM - Midnight." I wonder if you might have crossed the state line and ended up in Eastern time after Midnight eastern and thought you were still 11pm Central??  All of my posts for this challenge were done between 8-9 PM.
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Post by SUVFan on Oct 17, 2018 8:54:00 GMT -5
Indeed, Mr. Fuel's are listed on Flying Pilot's site, i.e.;pilotflyingj.com/stores/731/However, on PFJ's history page, it describes it as a "partnership" started in 2014. PFJ's wikipedia makes no mention of it, as wikipedia is want to do. It does mention partnership with "Road Ranger" and "Town Pump". I wonder if those vaguely suggestively named stations have a ratings challenge, also? Mr. Fuel locations show up on Pilot/FlyingJ's fuel search lists and appear to have no stand alone website or other web presence. I had never heard of Road Ranger or Town Pump. Googling the former, I found locations in IN. I searched Pilot/Flying J's gas locator for IN, and several RRs were listed, but they list prices for only diesel fuel. So I googled RR and learned that: I don't know if the GB special challenge in Indiana includes points for RRs but doubt it due to the limited nature of the fuel offerings. Town Pump appears to be a Montana operation according to this 8 year old story. The only Pilot/FJ connection I found was that 3 FJs and possibly 6 Pilots were shifted to Town Pump (retaining the original brand name) to satisfy concerns about the Pilot/FJ merger that was happening at the time. It seems doubtful this would be included in the Pilot/FJ rating challenge, but might have it's own from time to time. Edit: I tried finding a Town Pump in Montana searching by zip code on the GB App. A google search showed there should be one at 415 Whitehall in zip 59759. The search showed an Exxon at that location. So I googled the address and see that the C-store is branded Town Pump, but the gas station is an Exxon. That's a strong indicator that Town Pump would not be part of a Pilot/FJ special challenge. |
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Post by Bullitt on Oct 17, 2018 15:53:33 GMT -5
From Master Station List:
Town Pump (Exxon)
3969 Grand Ave
Cross: Shiloh Rd
Billings - West , MT 59102
Shows as Town Pump in the app.
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Would be nice to get some different stations offered in the challenges sometimes. 
All of my posts for this challenge were done between 8-9 PM. 
