<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by dhammer53:
Matthew, not that it's any of my business, but if you were to tell us that you and Steve only 'sold', say 27 deals for example, this debate would stop immediately.
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I'm relucant to discuss the specifics, but I can confirm that the number of people using Milespy to purchase their miles is small (though the orders are reasonably good-sized).
I've spoken to all of the parties involved at various stages. Let's just say that the MileSpy deal was a drop in the bucket.
A quick search reveals that no fewer than three major travel websites presented the Goldpoints / Valuemags deal to their readers. And it was covered on numerous other bulletin boards.
Flyertalkers don't have an exclusive hold on knowledge. This knowledge was widespread.
Heck, a simple look at the e-mail I got (others have mentioned similar things) to confirm my $400+ order shows that in 24 hours, hundreds of people ( valuemags did a cc: not a bcc: ) also placed large orders.