Although Ralf was the first person to turn me onto the KLM promotion, I was informed of it a month later by a colleague in Brussels. Therefore I am grateful to Ralf for getting me into it earlier than I would have been otherwise (I was able to shift some already planned flights onto KLM and its partners) but as Rudi stated there were other channels other than FT for doing so (while it was not promoted here with fliers, the IST office was very well aware of the offer by mid-January and was verbally telling people about it, IST was a big Qualiflyer station).

I also agree with Ralf that too many things are showing up in other forums such as Ebay, that really ticks me off. As I said earlier, many things that end up here are imprudent and do nothing more than make offers go away and get miles jerked out of accounts.

A classic example would be the recent 50K Hilton promo. It was great that it got posted, and even more so that apparent FT'er pressure got them to open it up to anyone. What was not cool were the few threads started asking people if they were able to register for both promos or to state that they got both promos. It should be apparent to all why this is so.