great deal that had been going on with American Airlines through June 30th, is now going on with USAir on points.com. Through the end of September, they are offering double the miles when you transfer from another program into USAir. You can exchange a number of things for the USAir miles, but by far the best deal is to exchange Ebay Anything Points. If you exchange 10,000 Ebay points, you get 7535 USAir miles.

You pay $19.95 to open your Points.com account, and with that you get a bonus of 2100 Ebay Points - worth 1582 USAir miles (Fairmont Hotel Presidents Club members are entitled to a free PointsPlus membership www.points.com/fpc , but you don't get the 2100 bonus - judgment call).

Then you can earn Ebay Points from there site. Many good deals - best I think is 1500 Ebay points for using Priceline to book a hotel and 5000 Ebay points for opening a Sharebuilder Account (see the thread listed below - there is a code to get a free $50, plus details on how to get the 5000 points plus $50 for only $4 cost - and it worked for me!!!).

See the Thread called: "Get "UNLIMITED" AA miles for less than $0.01 per mile " in the American Airlines thread (hopefully someone can link this - I don't know how). NOTE: that the thread starts out with an idea about Ebay Gift Certificates - THIS DOES NOT WORK! Also read through the whole thread for great ideas about how to generate points AND for those offers that folks had problems with.

GOOD LUCK!

AA thread... (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=312953)

This might save some of y'all a lot of reading. My apologies to seoulmanjr for the cut and paste, but I don't know how to link directly to a specific post.

DETAILED STEPS:

1. If you don't already have an eBay Anything Points account, you should sign up for this first at http://anythingpoints.ebay.com. It's free. Also, sign up for PayPal. PayPal is owned by eBay, and your points will show up there first.

2. Go to points.com and sign up for an account. You want the plus account that costs $19.95 (you get the enrollment bonuses only if you pay $$$ to become a PointsPlus member). Select 2100 eBay anything points for your account-opening bonus. Once logged into your PointsPlus account, link both your eBay Anything Points and USAir accounts to it through their website. Don't join through the USAir link on the points.com page, that will get you fewer points than the eBay option.

3. After that, just go to http://anythingpoints.ebay.com and start signing up for offers. You will use your eBay username to sign up for things. There are several offers that cost little to nothing so long as you cancel within the trial period. I signed up for and subsequently cancelled the following with no problems: Ancestry.com, Consumerinfo.com, Premier Health Plus, New York Times, Audible.com, ShareBuilder. (Enter FISB50 as the promo code when you sign up for ShareBuilder and 4-6 weeks from your first trade they will credit your account with another $50. So this way you make money on all of this…)

4. About a week before June 30, 2004 at the latest, go back to points.com and transfer all of your eBay Anything Points to AAdvantage miles. It is a little better than 1:1. This will take a little over a day to fully process and for some reason doesn’t seem to process over the weekends.

5. The eBay Anything Points post in under 24 hours and are doubled immediately. Approximately 2 hours after your eBay Anything Points post, you new balance will be reflected at Points.com (except weekends for some reason). You can then transfer to the mileage program of your choice, which in some cases is instant. Any special bonuses seem to run on a batch and seem to happen on a weekly basis. So from auction to points in a mileage program is under 28 hours.

6. Once you add an account in the Points.com website, it should show what points/miles you have in that other program. You just use the Points.com website to transfer miles/points between programs. Keep in mind that the double-bonus applies only to 500 mile or more transactions. 1,000 eBay Anything Points only equals 465 AAdvantage miles, so wait on transferring until you have at least 1,100 eBay Anything Points.

7. Fly for free. :-)


LINKS:

http://anythingpoints.ebay.com
http://anythingpoints.ebay.com/getpoints.html
http://www.metareward.com/mr/Page?p=Home&si=2689
http://points.com
https://points.com/landingPages/exc...587710962185806


CANCELLATION INFO:

Ancestry.com
800-262-3787 (dial 1 for the sales dept and ask to be transferred)

Consumerinfo.com
I cancelled after getting my free credit report and 1500 points. No charge/fee.
888-721-6025 (option 4)

Premier Health Plus
I cancelled after getting the points. I don’t think that I can get the $1 registration fee back, but we’ll see. In any event it would be 1000 points for $1, which I’d take any day.
800-547-6679 (dial the * key twice or so and get a CSR)

New York Times
I cancelled after receiving my first newspaper. Total billed to my card is $11.60 but they will refund the unused portion of my subscription, $11.02. Only $0.58 for 3000 points!
800-698-4637 (option 4, then 2) or homedelivery.nytimes.com

Audible.com
I cancelled after grabbing the points. Asked them to close my account and refund my $7.49 – I had no problems. If they say they can’t refund the $7.49, quote the terms of your subscription to them: “Without a Device. If your AudibleListener Program Plan does not include the purchase of a Device, you may cancel your AudibleListener Program Plan at any time within the first month of its commencement without any charge or penalty and your credit card will be credited with the Monthly Fee billed for your chosen AudibleListener Program Plan.” Make sure you tell them to refund your $7.49, not just close the account.
888-283-5051

ShareBuilder
I closed and cancelled my account with them after receiving my 5000 points. For some reason, they only execute trades on Tuesdays, so your points won’t show up until sometime after they make your first trade on a Tuesday. I’m pretty sure it costs more than its worth to cash out the $1 stock/fractional share that was bought, so I didn’t bother. I bought $1 (fractional share) of my company’s stock plus their $4 fee for $5 total. Not a bad deal for 5,000 points to say the least.
866-747-2537 (5am-6pm Pacific Time Monday-Friday excluding market holidays)

Wonderful post MikeLaw!!! :)

This might save some of y'all a lot of reading. My apologies to seoulmanjr for the cut and paste, but I don't know how to link directly to a specific post.

DETAILED STEPS:

1. If you don't already have an eBay Anything Points account, you should sign up for this first at http://anythingpoints.ebay.com. It's free. Also, sign up for PayPal. PayPal is owned by eBay, and your points will show up there first.

2. Go to points.com and sign up for an account. You want the plus account that costs $19.95 (you get the enrollment bonuses only if you pay $$$ to become a PointsPlus member). Select 2100 eBay anything points for your account-opening bonus. Once logged into your PointsPlus account, link both your eBay Anything Points and USAir accounts to it through their website. Don't join through the USAir link on the points.com page, that will get you fewer points than the eBay option.

3. After that, just go to http://anythingpoints.ebay.com and start signing up for offers. You will use your eBay username to sign up for things. There are several offers that cost little to nothing so long as you cancel within the trial period. I signed up for and subsequently cancelled the following with no problems: Ancestry.com, Consumerinfo.com, Premier Health Plus, New York Times, Audible.com, ShareBuilder. (Enter FISB50 as the promo code when you sign up for ShareBuilder and 4-6 weeks from your first trade they will credit your account with another $50. So this way you make money on all of this…)

4. About a week before June 30, 2004 at the latest, go back to points.com and transfer all of your eBay Anything Points to AAdvantage miles. It is a little better than 1:1. This will take a little over a day to fully process and for some reason doesn’t seem to process over the weekends.

5. The eBay Anything Points post in under 24 hours and are doubled immediately. Approximately 2 hours after your eBay Anything Points post, you new balance will be reflected at Points.com (except weekends for some reason). You can then transfer to the mileage program of your choice, which in some cases is instant. Any special bonuses seem to run on a batch and seem to happen on a weekly basis. So from auction to points in a mileage program is under 28 hours.

6. Once you add an account in the Points.com website, it should show what points/miles you have in that other program. You just use the Points.com website to transfer miles/points between programs. Keep in mind that the double-bonus applies only to 500 mile or more transactions. 1,000 eBay Anything Points only equals 465 AAdvantage miles, so wait on transferring until you have at least 1,100 eBay Anything Points.

7. Fly for free. :-)


LINKS:

http://anythingpoints.ebay.com
http://anythingpoints.ebay.com/getpoints.html
http://www.metareward.com/mr/Page?p=Home&si=2689
http://points.com
https://points.com/landingPages/exc...587710962185806


CANCELLATION INFO:

Ancestry.com
800-262-3787 (dial 1 for the sales dept and ask to be transferred)

Consumerinfo.com
I cancelled after getting my free credit report and 1500 points. No charge/fee.
888-721-6025 (option 4)

Premier Health Plus
I cancelled after getting the points. I don’t think that I can get the $1 registration fee back, but we’ll see. In any event it would be 1000 points for $1, which I’d take any day.
800-547-6679 (dial the * key twice or so and get a CSR)

New York Times
I cancelled after receiving my first newspaper. Total billed to my card is $11.60 but they will refund the unused portion of my subscription, $11.02. Only $0.58 for 3000 points!
800-698-4637 (option 4, then 2) or homedelivery.nytimes.com

Audible.com
I cancelled after grabbing the points. Asked them to close my account and refund my $7.49 – I had no problems. If they say they can’t refund the $7.49, quote the terms of your subscription to them: “Without a Device. If your AudibleListener Program Plan does not include the purchase of a Device, you may cancel your AudibleListener Program Plan at any time within the first month of its commencement without any charge or penalty and your credit card will be credited with the Monthly Fee billed for your chosen AudibleListener Program Plan.” Make sure you tell them to refund your $7.49, not just close the account.
888-283-5051

ShareBuilder
I closed and cancelled my account with them after receiving my 5000 points. For some reason, they only execute trades on Tuesdays, so your points won’t show up until sometime after they make your first trade on a Tuesday. I’m pretty sure it costs more than its worth to cash out the $1 stock/fractional share that was bought, so I didn’t bother. I bought $1 (fractional share) of my company’s stock plus their $4 fee for $5 total. Not a bad deal for 5,000 points to say the least.
866-747-2537 (5am-6pm Pacific Time Monday-Friday excluding market holidays)




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You forgot to mention Jude at Metarewards as the person to contact for problems--which sometimes isn't true if you believe some of the posts on the AA forum---although he/she helped me with getting the sharebuilder points credited.

I learned two things on the AA promotion--don't use FTD for ebay points because it looks like very few people got them in time for the end of the promo---- and you must be the only person who got points from NYT----every post I read complained about not getting the ebay point incentive for ordering the NYT...

I netted about 30,000 AA miles from the promotion and spent just under $50---so thats $.0017 per mile--or about 6 miles for every penny spent...


**Don't forget--if you do the Ancestry.com promo--its only a 14 days free trial period, not 30----and be ready for a fairly high level sales pitch to switch to a lower priced product instead of cancelling---HOLD YOUR GROUND>>>!!!

Good luck.....

^ ^ ^

Although it didn't work so well for the AA folks, it looks like phonehog.com might be an option here as well for transfers to US. I think I'll sign up for the VIP membership (double phonehog minutes/points for $10 for one month) accumulate enough to get me the minimum 500 miles on US (req'd to double the miles - 1200 phonehog minutes) and see where that leaves me. A lot of the offers are the same ancestry.com etc so perhaps a second email address would come in useful here. For those members in Canada, there are quite a few phonehog promos that work for Canadians as well.

Anyone wishing to become a member of phonehog for this promo (or even for other purposes), I would really appreciate if you allowed me to refer you .... you get nothing (sorry) but I get bonus points. If you would be willing to go this route, please send me a PM with your first name and email that you wish to associate with phonehog.com. I'll get the data into the system within 24 hours and your account will be ready to go. Appearntly you get a lot of spam from them so I have set up a specific email for this purpose with netscape.net and recommend that you do the same. Happy miles earning !

Can anyone tell me where the Ancestry.com offer is for the Ebay Anything Points? I don't see it. Thanks!

Can anyone tell me where the Ancestry.com offer is for the Ebay Anything Points? I don't see it. Thanks!

Used to be on the page after you clicked on the metarewards link.

Are any of you doing this offer? This seems like a rather pathetic response compared with the 50+ pages it got in the AA forum. Or is it just that all that can be said already has been over there??

Are any of you doing this offer? This seems like a rather pathetic response compared with the 50+ pages it got in the AA forum. Or is it just that all that can be said already has been over there??

I am certainly working through it. Canadian members can benefit even more by channelling phonehog and ebay through Esso Extra points and losing less value, as well as the lower pointsplus fee. For each C$21.35 (approx US$16.11) pointsplus renewal, one gains 2100 ebay anything points. This can be converted to 5422 Esso points and then redirected to US Airways under the current promotion for 2032 US Dividend Miles. This equates to $0.008/mile. Throw in the one-time bonus offers from ebay and phonehog and for a few hours of your time you could probably average it out to $0.005/mile depending on how many of the offers you bother to do (create a new email address for this) and how many renewals.

At $0.005/mile, you could pay (amounts in USD):
-$100 for an offpeak usairways.com domestic award (coach)
-$200 for a standard off-peak usairways.com Europe award (coach)
-$250 for a domestic First award
-$400 for an Envoy European award
-$1000 for an economy RTW award
-$1250 + $2000 for a zero-gravity award
============= items below this line are not actually feasible for $0.005/mile under the points.com renewal as they are above the overall theoretical max* ===============
-$2000 for a First RTW award
-$50,000 for a suborbital flight award

*this assumes that you can "renew" an unlimited amount of times; I am not sure what the limit is on this. Even so, with the maximum of 250000 ebay anything points that you can transfer out, you could only renew 109 times. This would equal 242,192 US DM. You must have a Canadian mailing address to join Esso Extra and to join/renew pointsplus for $21.35 CDN (otherwise it s $19.95 USD). You should also have a US address to get the most out of the phonehog/ebay anything free points offers, although some are also open to Canadian residents.

Without a Canadian address the best you could do is USD$19.95 for the 2100 ebay anything points which equals 1582 US DM, a total of $0.013/mile (say, $0.009/mile with all the bonuses). Still a good deal, but likely not worth the effort.

Big note: Although I have started (slow and steady wins the race, right?) working on this on my own, I have currently only joined once and renewed once so I am not responsible for some unpublished limit on renewals coming into affect. Also, I am tired and have had a few beers so there may be a flaw in my numbers somewhere. Study carefully :)

Are any of you doing this offer? This seems like a rather pathetic response compared with the 50+ pages it got in the AA forum. Or is it just that all that can be said already has been over there??

I lean towards the latter. I'm doing all of the easy ones. I already am an audible subscriber, so that one didn't work, but I'm in progress on the others quoted in my post.

Are any of you doing this offer? This seems like a rather pathetic response compared with the 50+ pages it got in the AA forum. Or is it just that all that can be said already has been over there??


I lean towards the explanation that whereas you are contemplating putting miles into Dividend Miles, perhaps many more people are rushing to get whatever miles they have in the program out before they file a second time in late September or early October, 2004.

ANY current ShareBuilder promo codes? FISB50 expired

Putting miles into DM is like jumping from a lifeboat back onto the Titanic because all of the good suites are now available.

Why pick up nickels in front of the steamroller?

just trying to top off my current 55K to 60K for 2 LAS-Carribbean award ticket. Any other quick ways?

BTW can I ticket this sector on UA


Putting miles into DM is like jumping from a lifeboat back onto the Titanic because all of the good suites are now available.

Why pick up nickels in front of the steamroller?

I stand corrected - that's a good deal if you can use it soon.