Shareholder OBC Benefit Question

[dbrown84]

11 minutes ago, Russiamomm said:

That is not true.  All of my cruises in the last year and a half (5 of them plus one cancelled cruise) have been booked as a CAS comp or discount.  I have two more booked in March and April of 2023.  I got the shareholder OBC on every one of them.

thanks for posting this.  I also exclusively travel as a guest of CAS.  I recently bought my 100 shares to take advantage of this benefit.  I'm happy to hear from first hand experience that I will indeed get my OBC

[julig22]

1 hour ago, tallyho8 said:

Just remember that you do not get the shareholders OBC if you had a casino discount or several other discounts.

I believe the only time you don't get shareholder OBC is when NCL comps your cruise for some reason - so for example if they give free cruises to travel agency staff or NCL employees.  CAS isn't actually NCL as far as I know.

It would be interesting to know if you can get the OBC if you win a cruise through NCL - slot tournaments, bingo/pull-tab winners etc.  Not that there is any danger that I'd win 'cause you gotta actually enter to win lol!

[J0Y0US]

How long do you need to own the stock? Thinking I might as well buy 100 shares with how cheap the stock is right now.

 

If my cruise is in January would I be good to buy stock tomorrow and submit my form the start of next week?

[Cruise5life]

2 hours ago, J0Y0US said:

How long do you need to own the stock? Thinking I might as well buy 100 shares with how cheap the stock is right now.

 

If my cruise is in January would I be good to buy stock tomorrow and submit my form the start of next week?

I’ve purchased stocks the month before I’ve cruised.    
Id say if you buy today.  And submit as soon as you get your January statement on the 1st. Submit that.  And you should have the OBC with in a day or so.     
I just bought some RC stocks last month.   And submitted my form right after the 1st and in a few days had my credit.     

I have 3 cruises next month RC NCl and MSC.    
I’ve gotten 350.00 OBC for 3 weeks of cruising from NCL and RC from stocks.   
a few months ago I got 100.00 for an alaska cruise on princess.    
 

so I’ve gotten 450.00 in 3 months from stocks.   
Got 200.00 from MSC as a perk too.  
land got. 100.00 from my travel agent on my RC cruise.  
 

so needless to say. I’ll have some OBC for my month of cruising in 3 weeks from stocks.     

 

[MagnoliaBlossom]

On 12/14/2022 at 12:01 PM, ChiefMateJRK said:

I'm finally on board with this (I admittedly had been asleep at the wheel).  I bought 100 shares in a brokerage account and submitted the request a day or two later.  Since I didn't have a proper statement yet, I downloaded an account summary that showed the brokerage logo/letterhead and the 100 shares of NCLH.  I suspect that inhibited an "automatic" credit, but after 9 business days the OBC showed up in the cruise summary.  I've yet to receive an email or amenity invoice.  I'll get a "real" statement on Dec 31 and use that to request OBC for other future cruises.  Has anybody had any problem getting the OBC awarded for a cruise that is more than four months out (i.e. before final payment?)

I submitted mine in October all the way out to a 12/23 cruise.  I thought it was interesting that they extended it that far out, but they did.  I have two 2024 cruises I need to do now.

[vacation44]

I find it interesting too and will submit today four requests going out through June 2024.

[echoheart]

I am sailing on January 8,2023, and I submitted my brokerage statement on December 6, 2022. I have not received a response from NCL. Has anyone else had this problem? Any suggestions?
Thanks

[Russiamomm]

18 minutes ago, echoheart said:

I am sailing on January 8,2023, and I submitted my brokerage statement on December 6, 2022. I have not received a response from NCL. Has anyone else had this problem? Any suggestions?
Thanks

Did you get a case number?  Either way I would either call them or resubmit. 

[mking8288]

We submitted "only" 3 requests for NCLH OBC this year successfully, each and every time - within matter of minutes, not hours - NCL's system responded and automatically assigned a Case Number to our request, acknowledging receipt - and a reply or response shall be expected in 1 business day or 24 hours thereafter. 

 

If you didn't get a Case Number generated, check the email address & email system used to see if the outbound message was successful or rejected for whatever reasons; and, resubmit it again as a new one (if no # assigned) or if no follow-up reply or updated Amenity Statement issued after a week, send an email with the Case Number and it should be enough to get it processed.   

 

Log into your own "MyNCL" account and look into the Reservation Summary, the OBC issued should be reflected there, i.e. $50 to psgr #1 and $50 to psgr #2 for a total of $100 (a 7 night cruise)  Good luck ! 

[ChiefMateJRK]

1 hour ago, mking8288 said:

each and every time - within matter of minutes, not hours - NCL's system responded and automatically assigned a Case Number to our request, acknowledging receipt - and a reply or response shall be expected in 1 business day or 24 hours thereafter. 

I did this for the first time a few weeks ago and received the immediate auto case number and 24 hour response time.  The OBC showed up 7 business days later and I never received an amenity invoice.

[RocketMan275]

On 12/14/2022 at 1:14 PM, ChiefMateJRK said:

Thanks.  I meant to say 7 business days (9 calendar days) in my previous post.  I did get the immediate case # email when I submitted (it appears that is auto generated).  It just showed up in my cruise summary and I haven't received any other emails.  This is a really nice perk, especially since the NCLH stock is in the toilet.  I can (and did) invest $1600 in NCLH stock and I'll get a $100 dividend for every cruise.  We tentatively are planning to cruise NCL seven times in 2023.😎

The bad news is NCL stock closed at $13.67 today.

I paid more than that for mine but a co uple of cruises and I'll break even or better when the stock goes back up.

[ChiefMateJRK]

1 hour ago, RocketMan275 said:

The bad news is NCL stock closed at $13.67 today.

I paid more than that for mine but a co uple of cruises and I'll break even or better when the stock goes back up.

The entire US market has been in the toilet.  This is all just noise (again).  On a positive note, DD put her NCLH order in today. 😎  This is the only individual stock I've ever (willingly) owned and it's less than 2 large worth.  I'll hold these shares as long as a) I keep cruising and b) NCL retains the perk.  That said, today's price, next year's price, the price in ten years won't make any difference to me.

[AnitaVacation]

On 12/15/2022 at 8:07 PM, tallyho8 said:

Just remember that you do not get the shareholders OBC if you had a casino discount or several other discounts.

I just got off the Getaway, casino deal and they gave me stockholder credit...

[echoheart]

I resent all the information with the reservation # and case #. Hopefully I will hear soon before my Jan 8 cruise. Is there a contact #? I checked my reservation summary, no OBC assigned.

[drvalo]

Also, you just have to own it at some point. You do not have to "hold" it. Buy it, Sell it, rebuy it, don't. Whatever. As long as you own it at some point after you make the reservation, you can get the benefit. 

 

Edited December 24, 2022 by drvalo

[Cruise5life]

8 hours ago, drvalo said:

Also, you just have to own it at some point. You do not have to "hold" it. Buy it, Sell it, rebuy it, don't. Whatever. As long as you own it at some point after you make the reservation, you can get the benefit. 

 

This is 100% correct.  I’ve just sold all my cruise line stocks as they were going down a bunch this week.   
CCL aid down lower than it’s been Covid numbers.    And the other 2 are coming down too.     So I’ll rebuy again 

But so far I’ve made 450 in OBC and 1000.00 in gains on RC.   And 250 on CCL.  So I m ahead very nicely.    

[MagnoliaBlossom]

On 12/18/2022 at 7:11 PM, echoheart said:

I am sailing on January 8,2023, and I submitted my brokerage statement on December 6, 2022. I have not received a response from NCL. Has anyone else had this problem? Any suggestions?
Thanks

Did you receive a response with a case number?  If you did not then you need to resubmit because they did not receive it.  I was 15 days out on a recent cruise and had a number but not a verification that it was applied.  A friendly call and the young lady had my verification to me in a short time.

[dolfan1980]

I only see on data point in this thread as a "should be".  I am sailing Jan 22nd, does anyone know if I purchase on Tuesday when the markets open if that should still get enough time to get the OBC?  I suspect the downside of the stock isn't as bad as when it was trading in the $20s earlier this year and last.  Getting a near 10% return right away isn't bad. 

 

Does anyone Canadian know if they get $100 US OBC?  Hopefully that is the case.

[ChiefMateJRK]

24 minutes ago, dolfan1980 said:

I am sailing Jan 22nd, does anyone know if I purchase on Tuesday when the markets open if that should still get enough time to get the OBC? 

Officially, they say you have to submit your request NLT 15 days prior to the cruise, so the answer "should be" yes.  You won't know until you try.

25 minutes ago, dolfan1980 said:

I suspect the downside of the stock isn't as bad as when it was trading in the $20s earlier this year and last.  Getting a near 10% return right away isn't bad. 

It doesn't matter.  At current prices, you'll be investing a bit more than $1000 to get $100 on every cruise.  It likely won't matter much to many what the stock does in the near term.  I certainly didn't buy it as an investment, but it could provide some good returns.  Ownership of any individual stock is a sucker's bet.

[ChiefMateJRK]

On 12/24/2022 at 5:28 AM, Cruise5life said:

 I’ve just sold all my cruise line stocks as they were going down a bunch this week.   

So your strategy is sell low?

[Cruise5life]

24 minutes ago, ChiefMateJRK said:

So your strategy is sell low?

For me it was sell high.    And buy back low.     I’ve made close to 2k in 3 months.     Oh and 450 in OBC.  
 

buy back on the dip.   

[ChiefMateJRK]

4 minutes ago, Cruise5life said:

For me it was sell high.    And buy back low.     I’ve made close to 2k in 3 months.     Oh and 450 in OBC.  
 

buy back on the dip.   

You must do fabulous in the casino! 😎

[Cruise5life]

2 hours ago, ChiefMateJRK said:

You must do fabulous in the casino! 😎

Spit it out.  What’s your point of this back and forth ?     
 

 

[BirdTravels]

On 12/24/2022 at 9:07 AM, MagnoliaBlossom said:

Did you receive a response with a case number?  If you did not then you need to resubmit because they did not receive it.  I was 15 days out on a recent cruise and had a number but not a verification that it was applied.  A friendly call and the young lady had my verification to me in a short time.

Response time should be 24 hours. Send again 

[BirdTravels]

3 hours ago, dolfan1980 said:

I only see on data point in this thread as a "should be".  I am sailing Jan 22nd, does anyone know if I purchase on Tuesday when the markets open if that should still get enough time to get the OBC?  I suspect the downside of the stock isn't as bad as when it was trading in the $20s earlier this year and last.  Getting a near 10% return right away isn't bad. 

 

Does anyone Canadian know if they get $100 US OBC?  Hopefully that is the case.

No problem. Response time is usually 24-48 hours on request. We have got it on short notice for last minute bookings.