MileKing: If I had done a lot of purchasing or given out my personal information at lots of sites, or had to put up with lots of junk mail--all for nothing--I might feel differently and I do feel your frustration. I would not suggest purchasing through MyPoints unless you're very patient because this is where the problem with crediting seems to come in.

But I still think there CAN be some value here with two simple activities. Doing nothing but TalkCity Polls (once a week) and linking through BonusMail e-mails (neither of which requires a trip to the MyPoints site), I can acrue 1,000 points in less than five weeks. For this I can get 1,000 Hilton HHonors points--a minimum of 10 times a year. When I do a cost/benefit analysis, this is worth it to me. The time spent clicking on BonusMail (with hot links in MS Outlook) is negligible and the polls take about 10-15 minutes of my time once a week.

I have never had problems getting credit for either BonusMail or TalkCity polls, and my HHonors point requests (10,000 points so far) have all been posted promptly to my Hilton account.

I hope we can agree to disagree on this

[This message has been edited by TravelWeary (edited 02-08-2000).]