Originally Posted by
Robt760
Not sure if this is related,but I did receive the same email and noticed another thing when I went to the web site today.
On the E-rewards home page I noticed a link that mentions a "Special Bonus Earning Opportunity".
So far, I only received one email, titled "New Reward Choices and Important News" (re: new GC redemption offers).
No email about double rewards but it's indeed offered to me under my account as "Special Bonus Earning Opportunity" after login.
Juding from the info in this thread, it seems these are new changes in 2008 for those members who have most of the redemption choices and didn't sign up with e-Rewards thru e-Miles, Delta, nor NW. I assume these two changes (GCs and double rewards) are e-Rewards' way to deal with the impact from certain "dropout" partners (AA, for example), and will be applied to those members who have the wider range of redemption choices.
I think it's a smart move to "retain" current e-Rewards members. I got the impressions that some folks are on the way out after reading the discontinued of AA partnership. Even though I feel sad about no more AA redemption after June, 2008, I will still stay with e-Rewards since Hilton and other airliners are all available to me.
I agree with
cepheid. It's too early an conclusion about surveys drying up soon. The business model of e-Rewards is all about taking surveys. If survey did dry up, it would mean e-Rewards folded the same time. I doubt it would happen any time soon since e-Rewards has been around for quite some time.
Noted the spectrum of FTers on this board. There are folks "bragging" about too many e-Rewards currencies with too little redemption choices every year, if not every quarter. We also have folks who haven't got survey invites for months/ages. We all know not everyone gets the same survey. For me personally, it's true I am not getting as many survey invites. (My survey invites were flooded for a certain period of time back in 2006.
) However, I am still seeing survey coming my way. It has everything to do with your demographics and profiles. When you receive zero survey, someone else is filling out one at the same time.
All we know is that US economy is hard and several reward programs are undergoing changes this year (no more AA in e-Rewards; Hilton's disappearance from Mypoints..etc). I just hope my preferred redemption choices will stay with the programs I participate.