Originally Posted by
sdsearch
A year or two ago, they switched from automatically giving VIP's the +5 to only giving them +5if they rated the restaurants.
Thus if you were getting +5 in 2008, it was because you were using Rate Your Dine.
That's why the discussion is all about Rate Your Done bonuses, because in 2008 that was the only way to get 5+5 miles for VIP accounts on every dine.
IIRC, back in 2007 (perhaps earlier, but that's when I started) elites got 5 mi/$ base + 5 mi/$ bonus automatically. From 8/19/07-12/15/07 there was an
additional 5 mi/$ bonus for Rate Your Dine (on top of another Aug-Oct 08 5 mi/$ bonus up to 2500 mi, yielding 20 mi/$!) Then in 2008, they removed the automatic elite bonus but kept the RYD bonus, resulting in 5+5. Then, as we know, in 2009, they removed the RYD bonus, resulting in just 5.
