Originally Posted by
AA_EXP09
Good luck!
thanks. I may need it. many naysayers exist. For all we know, the judge is one too, even if he or she is supposed to be unbiased.
Most regular humans have NO concept of the idea of both buying items online with a mileage earning CC AND actually earning extra bonus miles when doing that. I will have to explain this concept AND explain when people do it or wish to do it for huge gains, such as say 2x mile or 9x mile or even 50x mile or higher. Then I have to be able to show where Cartera and its malls (UA, AA, etc) have made blunders in both how they displayed and advertized these offers and then in how they failed to post the miles promised, or did so with great delay and teeth pulling on the part of the customer.
I have become very surprised that some naysayers live in this very FT world... one such, I think his exact handle is MReed, seems to have made it a point to despise everything I say now, since in one other related thread I posted opinions on how a jury of public opinion, or a court room full of non miles savvy people would hear/understand this stuff, and thus judge me. In my mind, it is highly possible that three things could easily stop me:
1) the sheer complexity of the above method of buying miles (easy for us to comprehend/want to do, hard for most people who do not log into FT) could make my case too hard to deal with or value.
2) no way to value miles or time spend battling customer service to get missing miles from these entities (and thus, no way to properly award anything in court. It's seen as worth nothing because no money was lost in the minds of most people, even though you and I know a 60k RT ticket on say, DL from BOS-AMS, for example, is valued at no less than $750)
3) much of our ways are viewed as scams, gaming systems, playing double dips or other non standard things. Even if all we did was answer to ads on the internet offered by supposedly legitimate companies (airlines and Cartera malls selling us stuff we could want to buy anyway) it could be construed by some as not the normal intent of the average shopper. And while we here all know that should not matter, it does also depend on what the judge thinks and how the abilities of Cartera's lawyer come through when he or she stands up against me.
We shall see.