Originally Posted by
Concerto
I’m still surprised you all subscribe to such bad offers. I won’t go near those rates. Trouble is, the more people are happy to use them the less likely it is that they will offer decent mileage ratios. Each to his own, I suppose. Having said that, I have made use of the Swiss COOP Trophy shopping stamp collecting promotion, which is a bad rate too TBH. But I’m cutting right back from now on.
In my case the award miles are absolutely secondary to the reading material I get for my money. I agree that you shouldn't go for any of these offers if you do not like to read the Economist.