AA miles for downloading AAdvantage eShopping toolbar, searches etc.
Aug 14, 2010, 5:51 am
#121
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Houston, TX
Programs: AA EXP (> 2.5 MM; *Wood Gld; HHonors Gld
Posts: 166
Just curious - how much time does it take you guys to get 300 approved searches (= 100 miles)? Since only 1 in every 2-3 searches qualifies (at least for me), it can take 1-1.5 hours to get this done - probably a waste of time...
Aug 14, 2010, 8:21 am
#122
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Boston, MA
Programs: AA Lifetime Platinum (3MM), QF Lifetime Gold, Bonvoy Lifetime Platinum, Ex-Hyatt Diamond
Posts: 7,541
I take it this promo is over now...?
Aug 14, 2010, 8:35 am
#123
Join Date: May 2002
Location: St Louis, MO
Programs: AA L.T. PLT
Posts: 3,265
Just about I enter moves the counter.
Aug 15, 2010, 5:50 am
#125
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: San Diego
Programs: UA LTP, AA LTG, DL Plat, Marriott LTT, HH Diamond
Posts: 863
Seems in my experience that the things that cause most of my invalid searches are short search terms, like single words, and rapid-firing several in a row. Although it may mean a few more characters typed than normal for Google or regular Yahoo (this is some kind of .......ized form, it seems), if I just do some now and then rather than one after another, and click on some of the results, most of them work.
No doubt someone will tell me I'm wasting my time but it's not a lot and it's worth it to me.
FTF
No doubt someone will tell me I'm wasting my time but it's not a lot and it's worth it to me.
FTF
Aug 15, 2010, 6:45 am
#126
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: SYD
Programs: |QF Platinum|HH Gold|DL Silver|ALL Silver|
Posts: 1,736
Just search for whatever websites you would usually go to via your bookmarks or favorites. By mid-month without any extra effort you should have maxed out the miles.
Aug 15, 2010, 9:19 am
#127
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: west of DFW airport
Programs: AA LT Gold 1.9 MM flying my way to LT PLAT
Posts: 11,074
My AA eshopping tool bar and search window has vanished. The WEB site no longer shows the option to download it.
Anyone else have this problem?
Anyone else have this problem?
Aug 20, 2010, 12:19 pm
#128
Join Date: Dec 2009
Posts: 397
Got an email this morning:
Purchase Date Retailer Status* Miles
07/28/2010 Office Depot Pending 126
05/19/2010 Toolbar Download Bonus Confirmed 500
07/28/2010 Office Depot Pending 30
07/29/2010 Apple iTunes Pending 3
08/11/2010 Yahoo! Search Pending 19
Purchase Date Retailer Status* Miles
07/28/2010 Office Depot Pending 126
05/19/2010 Toolbar Download Bonus Confirmed 500
07/28/2010 Office Depot Pending 30
07/29/2010 Apple iTunes Pending 3
08/11/2010 Yahoo! Search Pending 19
Aug 20, 2010, 12:42 pm
#129
Join Date: Apr 2010
Programs: FB Platinum, AA Plat/2MM, SPG Plat/LT Gold
Posts: 379
Aug 20, 2010, 5:43 pm
#130
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: west of DFW airport
Programs: AA LT Gold 1.9 MM flying my way to LT PLAT
Posts: 11,074
thank you!
I'm up and running again and will bookmark that link.
Aug 20, 2010, 9:50 pm
#131
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: TX Panhandle
Programs: EXP AA 5.7MM, Diamond HHonors, a bit of Marriott, a bit of United, a bit of this and that
Posts: 737
Aug 21, 2010, 8:46 am
#132
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: west of DFW airport
Programs: AA LT Gold 1.9 MM flying my way to LT PLAT
Posts: 11,074
Well, we are adicted!
I have 100 miles pending from Yahoo search as well.
Progress!
My miles haul is from ValueMags. Almost ridiculous!
Progress!
My miles haul is from ValueMags. Almost ridiculous!
Sep 1, 2010, 4:04 pm
#133
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: San Diego
Programs: UA LTP, AA LTG, DL Plat, Marriott LTT, HH Diamond
Posts: 863
Did anyone have their toolbar reset today - as in, like it's supposed to? 
It's 9/1, time for a new month and new miles, and mine is still reading "max monthly miles earned" as it was back in late August... (grrrr) Just more brilliance from Vesnia, I guess.
FTF
It's 9/1, time for a new month and new miles, and mine is still reading "max monthly miles earned" as it was back in late August... (grrrr) Just more brilliance from Vesnia, I guess.
FTF
Sep 2, 2010, 6:21 am
#134
Join Date: Aug 2006
Programs: AA Lifetime Platinum
Posts: 169
Yes, mine was reset right off.
Sep 3, 2010, 5:12 am
#135
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: San Diego
Programs: UA LTP, AA LTG, DL Plat, Marriott LTT, HH Diamond
Posts: 863
Looks like the trick if your searches/miles counter is to reboot, which I had to do for other reasons and which promptly restored the counter. (Just closing IE, which I tried specficially to reset the counter before posting, did not work.)
I see some peeps have been having search miles posting problems, but mine have all done fine - see them as pending entries, 100/month, usually running about 1 month behind.
FTF
I see some peeps have been having search miles posting problems, but mine have all done fine - see them as pending entries, 100/month, usually running about 1 month behind.
FTF