For me, maybe it's via gambling...sort of. My online gambling portal allows payments from Visa. So I deposit money from my visa, shows up as an online purchase. Not it's a small pittance of miles cuz I deposit like $50 a month to play with, but potentially you could deposit $500, collect the miles, place like 1-2 small bets then just withdraw the rest of the money via either direct bank transfer or wait for a cheque.
Originally Posted by
Mauibaby2008
Accor had a promotion last year, earn 10,000 points each time you stay at any Accor property worldwide.
10,000 Accor= 10,000 Iberia avios.
1 night in Bangkok= $30
Had a friend stay at various Bangkok Accor properties 25+ nights :-)
All the while listening to "One Night in Bangkok".
That's a pretty sick promo, any thought it might be something they'd do again?
Originally Posted by
cocobird
San Francisco requires payment of a parking ticket before allowing a formal hearing to challenge the ticket. My $800 credit card charge ended up being returned to me in a check when I won my appeal.
Now THAT'S manufactured spending
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Originally Posted by
gatzdon
Wendy's/AirTran promo was fun. I had 4 Wendy's on my way home from work. For about 3 weeks, I stopped into each one on my way home, grabbed the cups off the top of each garbage can inside, and rinsed the cups out in their bathroom.
After about 3 weeks, two of them asked me to stop, but by then, I had enough for 14 round trip tickets.
Forgive my ignorance, I haven't heard of this one, were they just giving out codes to redeem for 100 miles or something?
Originally Posted by
DaveInLA
My wife and I did the Cadillac thing. The salesman knew what we wanted and said he didn't want to waste our time or his, but sounded really annoyed about the while thing. We definitely weren't the first to do it with him.
That's why I always show up like this...
