I think the best way to fight for miles later is to accept and effectively keep the items bought. One could always sell them on Ebay and then in the minds of Verizon and AA, you did in fact BUY and KEEP them. Once you have them you can do what you want with them so if you sell them on ebay that's fine. You will probably make most of your money back and then you still have a case to claim miles. If you refuse them you are returning them and/or giving up.

I think the ads and big mileage gains drove otherwise non-existent traffic to the AA mall and to Verizon. Even people who did not get into these offers but heard about them probably went to both sites to look and may have ended up buying something else anyway. Thus, I think this gives both those companies something that earns them money. And they should pay something for that. If they used us to make this chain happen, they ought to pay us. I'll take 83,871 miles x 46 please! TYVM

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