Originally Posted by
gemac
More opportunities to buy means that fewer passengers than hoped were taking advantage of this stunningly poor buying opportunity. As noted upthread, this is a terrible way to get more miles, especially now that AA allows you to buy 80,000 miles per account for $1530 + 7.5% tax. I suppose that if you had already bought the maximum miles for 2010 and couldn't wait two weeks to buy more miles, it might be reasonable in some limited circumstances, but it would be pretty unusual. Most people seem to be agreeing with me, which is why AA is making this current change.
Of course that's an assumption and actually the opposite could be true, perhaps the kiosk miles are doing quite well, so they decided to invest in the technology for people to be able to buy them through OLCI too. If they weren't selling any at the kiosk, why would they assume more people would buy them online and bother spending the money to update the OLCI?