Originally Posted by
Marathon Man
and yet, I've always wondered how YOU AND I find out if everyone is supposed to shut up.
I guess ya gotta be very ON and savvy and ready. I have been with several of these. One you mentioned that I loved (and milked muchly) was the Money Orders gig. When the bank in question found out, they made it not possible to earn miles off those purchases alone. One you forgot was the Iceland Air screw up for Sumer Solstice. I think it was like 66cents a flight or something cheap. I didnt go but wow.
Which brings up the long ago traveler checks purchased via credit card deals. I'm sure there are others that we can reminisce about. At the beginning of June, there were 88 cent flights to Peru and this special should run again should one know where to look on FT...but back to the OP's original question...current 'collection' type awards. The Coke points are the only one I can think of that is still current, but so many people cashed out the Delta awards that they increased the redemption amount each time they replenished the awards, so it now takes 4 times the points from when they started in March 2006. I have earned several thousand DL miles and Hilton points so far, but it is not worth it now, unless you can get thousands of coasters from Denny's. I don't know of any other collection method involving awards attached to food purchases except the idine (rewards network), but that requires dining out. I don't know of any that would exceed 20,000 miles or points either, unless you win some contest.
-outoftown