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Old Aug 14, 2008, 8:47 pm
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Sam - DFW
 
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Originally Posted by SquareDanceGuy
I'd want some assurance that the 300,000 miles will actually end up in my account all at the same time. AA normally restricts buying miles to 40K per account per year. Obviously this is some kind of special deal, but I'd hate to spend the bucks only to find out what I really bought was 40K miles in 7 or 8 different accounts, or 40K miles per year for the next 7 or 8 years.
possibly someone w/ the miles "donating" them to the auction and "winner" will contact AA account holder to book travel. i have experience with this.

we have 1M miles and don't have as many opportunities to use them as we would like. donating them in this manner is a viable alternative.
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