It took me a while to realize it, but e-rewards sucks.

Tried redeeming AF/KL points, but the dodos at e-rewards programmed their system to require 12 digits, while AF/KL cards have only 10 digits. Doh!

Tried redeeming "$100" ... but this is inflated currency. $100 gets you 2000 miles. $100 should earn you 10 thousand miles. A penny a mile is the normal currency rate.

So next time you get an e-rewards solicitation that says you'll earn $5 for completing a 15-minute survey, forget it. $5 = 100 miles. Not worth 15 minutes of your time. Especially since the survey will take 30 minutes to complete, will likely have bugs in it, and will also likely exclude you (and you'll get $0.50, i.e. 10 miles, for wasting 5 minutes of your life and being told that your quota was already completed).

The nail in the coffin is that the currency expires one month after the end of each year, so your "dollars" may have a life expectancy of as little as 31 days. Say you get an opportunity to "earn" $5 today, and your "membership year" ends in 8 days. This means only get 38 days to spend the $5 (I mean the 100 miles). And since you're unlikely to get enough survey opportunities that you qualify for to get to a meaningful awards, you're S.O.L. Any airline program at least has points expire after they've been in your account for at least a year, or 18 months, or 36 months+. This is a cumbersome and low-rewarding program, where you can't earn enough points for anything meaningful has points expiring in 31 days after earning them!!!!! This is NONSENSE.

Finally, if you've already redeemed points once on an airline, you can't redeem them again! So you can't use it if you get too many points, like over $100. You can't use it if you get too few points. And if you have "$75" you can't redeem a $50 and a $25 reward ... the program is absolutely inane. Only if you earn exactly 100 or 50 is the program at all marginally useful, but there are far easier ways to earn 1000 miles.

e-rewards will die soon when its "members" realize that it is a bad program where the hype does not match the benefit. Join Ameniti and other duds.