Originally Posted by
slawecki
for myself, and my wife, i just purchased some 220K united miles at $0.02+tax each. i used a credit card. cost was $4.4k+ so, got another 8k in miles on my chase card.
slawecki: it's good value if these purchased miles are used wisely. However I wouldn't bother trying to convince OP at this point, especially after seeing his statement in another post as follows:
Originally Posted by
joer1212
As for the redeeming issue, I am pretty aware at this point that the airlines will not make this easy for me, even thought I tend to travel between mid-Jan to mid-Mar on weekdays. The only thing I can do is try it out, and if I find that these ff programs are run by dishonest, dirty dogs, I will dump them like a bad habit that's about to kill me, then spread the word like wildfire that they are not worth a dime. Let's just see what happens.