Originally Posted by
izzik
The "buy 50 $2 tickets and then bribe the conductor" routine is not going to work because, as previously stated, you get points for traveling on amtrak and not just buying amtrak tix (similar to airlines' ff programs). Imagine buying a bunch of airline tickets for yourself and handing them all to the gate agent at once.. then asking for mileage credit. Sounds ridiculous? There ya go.
Actually, someone here purported getting a number of tickets lifted for the same train trip. Guess what? AGR clamped down on that and set up some new rules.
A hate to break it to people, but Amtrak Guest Rewards is actually here to reward Amtrak guests, not as a conduit for your travel point schemes. While I don't think that anyone disagrees that they do a sloppy job of it, there's no reason to complain when you try to exploit a loophole, they clamp it shut, and you get stuck. Especially months after the fact, when there was time to do something it.