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Old Feb 15, 2006 | 7:32 pm
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JDiver
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My experiences with iDine have been pretty constant - prompt posting, ten miles and five HHonors points per dollar with my HHonors AMEX, and fortunately for me, some decent restaurants in Sacramento CA to dine in (I try to update the Sacramento listings in the sticky every month of two, at least.) I avoid the lousy ones like a case of TD.

Unfortunately, in some cities I travel to the US (Boston being a recent acase in point,) many good iDine restaurants have dropped out - so I am certainly using it less. We're just fortunate in SMF area to have a number of palces we'd dine anyway be affiliated with iDine.

My concern is what happens on July 1? If it drops back to five miles, iDine will have a difficult time with many members staying on, I believe. That will be the tilting point.

Sidenote and irony: the iDine resto we dined in Valentine's day, the server will get the best of it - I'll give her award ticket to BKK for her friend's wedding next year. The ultimate in recycling!

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