Originally Posted by RedRadioFlyerWagon
pgary....I find that
www.smarterliving.com is not very accurate. The staff doesn't seem to update pages frequently.
You suggested using the Mile Finder box to find partner offers. When I look at Northwest and American communication partners, I find Smarter Living shows offers that are not the best mileage offers available on the airlines site. They say NW and EarthLink offer 5K but on the WorldPerks Mall it offers 10K. TMobile and MCI offers on the WP Mall are higher than what
www.smarterliving.com shows too. Also, Smarter Living list partners that are no longer even part of NW and AAs program (ATT Worldnet and ATT Consumer).
Honestly, I like your site a great deal ^ so I'm surprised you're recommending a site that is so unreliable. There are so many errors on smarterliving.com com that I think it might deserve its own thread to see what others think about it.
It would be incredibly difficult and time consuming to keep any of the sites I recommend up to date. Thus I say on my website "But they are always out of date, so you might miss an occasional miles earning opportunity by relying on them." Perhaps I sould make that statement a bit stronger, by suggesting the use of these services only as a starting point.
Andrew's excellent list was last updated August 19 2004. His site has shown the most potential for being incredibly useful. But I suspect he has discovered (as have I) that site maintanence is much more time consumming and much less interesting than the creation of site. Perhaps we could help him by each of us volunteering to him to weekly or biweekly send him an update of changes on each shopping portal he lists. Perhaps someone here
- Will contact Andrew privately to see if he would be willing to program the updates that come to him if we can find people to monitor each of the portals he lists (not me - I do enough maintaining my website),
- Will list this suggestion on this formum as a separate topic, and
- Will participate in this endeavor
If Andrew says he has just given up on the project, perhaps someone with rudementary HTML programming skills (hey - the site is already designed) could offer to take over the project from him,
if there are enough volunteers to monitor each of the shopping portals.
Here is an opportunity for folks who want to contribute more to our common goal to do so. If it is worth getting it done, then it is worth your time to do some of it. So if an insufficient number of people volunteer to help, I would conclude that the project is not worth doing. (Yes, I have an army of readers contributing information to me for my website.)