Originally Posted by KathyWdrf
I assume you mean 10 CO miles/dollar thru the CO portal, or 10 AA miles/dollar thru the AA portal?
(UA also has a holiday bonus offer on their shopping portal, but sadly, it only seems to apply to a few merchants, NOT ebags.)
Correct. But, the CO 10 miles/$ is always available to OnePass members. However, if you complete 3 separate and different partner transactions by 12/31, you will earn a small bonus on top of the miles for the items purchased themselves, of 1,000 CO miles,
so long as you use any MC for your purchases.
If one is really interested in gaining this bonus and intends to use a partner that also participates in giftcertificates.com, the way you can minimize your spending as well as reap some extra miles, is to purchase a $25 gift cert for the partner from giftcerts.com. One can do so with many partners wherein there will be no service or transmittal charge if you obtain the gift cert by e-mail.
As it happens, e-bags is one such partner, so for 1 transaction I bought a gift cert for $25 with my MC thru them and then went back thru the CO shopping portal for ebags and then purchased $26.99 in goods. I applied the gift cert and made up the difference with my MC and thereby satisfied 2/3 partner purchases.
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With respect to AA, ebags is both an everyday shopping partner and a special "threshold" partner.
Everyday partner purchases made with a MC earn double their normal points thru 12/31 -- thereby yielding the 10 AA miles per $.
Ebags is also a threshold partner, whereby if all your AA.com threshold partner purchases add up to $250, you get 2,500 FF miles as an additional bonus. $500 in theshold purchases yield a 5,000 bonus, and likewise, $1,000 yields 10,000 FF miles.
However, unlike CO, gift cert purchases via giftcerts.com, also an AA partner, I do not believe earn any bonus whatsoever, and it is not a threshold partner, as well. So do not think of buying gift certs via the AA shopping portal thinking that you will get any sort of bonus, because I think you will be quite disappointed.
Finally, I am aware of the United bonuses for those 5 select partners. Better than the CO promotion, but it pales in relation to last year's United promo where 2 separate online purchases of any amount from any partner would yield 7,500 bonus miles!! Now, that was some bonus!!
