Talk:Login Rewards/@comment-75.142.82.94-20140906014258/@comment-98.26.86.3-20140907000120

What you most likely got was affinity (which determines the rank of your gear) instead of an actual item. Login awards can't give you actual weapons/warframes but they can give you blueprints with which you can craft items. And also, you're not doing anything wrong, I think the game just doesn't explain this well enough at this point.