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Old Aug 17, 2010 | 11:09 am
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lkar
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Originally Posted by fbnewyork
The fine print is that you CAN buy and gift miles in the same year (You get 40M and your wife gets 40M), this way you would get both of the bonus miles in your account.
I'm still confused about this. If I gift miles, don't the bonus miles post to MY account?

An example. (I am a citi card holder, so eligible for 4,000 mile bonus per 10,000 purchased.) I buy 40k miles for myself and I gift 40k to my wife. Isn't the end result this:

Wife's account: +40,000 miles.
My account: +72,000 miles (40,000 purchased miles plus 16,000 bonus miles on the purchase, plus 16,000 bonus miles on the gift).
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