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AAdvantage eShoppping by Cartera Commerce
Using, earning miles, problems, etc. (Consolidated thread)

American Airlines is not the contact for Cartera / AAdvantage eShopping .

AAdvantage eShopping FAQs and an e-contact form can be found via the "Contact Us" link at the bottom left corner of the home page.

If you have trouble getting purchases to track, there's also a browser extension to help.

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Cartera website: http://www.cartera.com

Cartera Commerce, Inc.
One Cranberry Hill
Lexington, Massachusetts 02421

Tel. (781) 541-6800 Fax: (781) 541-6801

For general inquiries, please contact [email protected] or 888.456.6255

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MODERATOR GUIDEPOST (Please do not alter contents following)

This thread is the sole thread to address issues with AAdvantage eShopping (operated by Cartera Commerce). Other queries or complaints will invariably end up merged into this thread. All posts must comply with FlyerTalk Guidelines and Rules / TOS, or may be summarily deleted or edited by moderators.

A related article, highlighting an interview of Cartera Commerce CEO Tom Bercher, is "Secrets of Cartera Commerce Revealed: Inside the Company that Brings You Miles for Online Shopping" by Gary Leff on March 3, 2014. Link.

As described in this thread, AAdvantage Shopping now offers a downloadable button installable on your desktop (not mobile) device to facilitate e-shopping. Link.

Older posts may be read at http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...or-consol.html

Notes about Giftcards.com:

A separate thread exists for discussing Giftcards.com and likely has more data points than this generic thread.
Purchases from giftcards.com earn miles on the first $2,000 spent in the named calendar month, meaning for example between March 1st and March 31st. [Note: as of Aug 2023, the $2k limit is per order, not per purchase]
Giftcards.com has had various limits over the years, and it was always by calendar month.
Some data points show the $2,000 monthly limit is not always enforced. [Note: as of Aug 2023, the $2k limit is per order, not per purchase]
In 2022, larger orders track more slowly, and you may need to wait a full month to see miles. Strong advice from the thread is to make multiple small purchases (say under $300) rather than large ones to avoid the dreaded "manual review"

(Copied from the LP thread wiki): Once you click through the AAdvantage eShopping portal to a vendor offer and make a purchase, you will eventually get the associated miles posted to your AAdvantage account as both redeemable miles and Loyalty Points. If the merchant advertises an increase in the miles per dollar spent, you'll earn the higher amount in both redeemable miles and an equal number of Loyalty Points. The same applies if a merchant advertises a higher fixed amount per purchase, rather than a per dollar amount. Examples of this would appear on the portal as, "Extra miles. Was 1 mile/$. Now earn 3 miles/$" or "Extra miles. Was up to 3700 miles. Now up to 6200 miles." However, if the website advertises a "Limited-time bonus offer" for "bonus miles" after meeting a spending threshold, that bonus will only post as redeemable miles and not Loyalty Points. If a bonus is offered for some site-wide activity such as 1000 miles for installing an extension, or 500 miles for enrolling in the portal, or 2000 miles for meeting a spending threshold across multiple merchants, the bonus will only post as redeemable miles and not Loyalty Points.

Some anti-virus software silently blocks tracking, and you may want to consider disabling it for your purchase.

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Nov 21, 2022, 8:53 am

#1876

MoonOverMiami

Join Date: Aug 2018

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Originally Posted by Soccerjoshj07

Yes, approx nov 5 that changed https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/34735545-post1782.html

Awesome. The wiki on this page should be updated.

Nov 21, 2022, 10:47 am

#1877

njvandy

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Best Dell.com or LG.com multipliers

Does anyone have data points on LG.com or Dell.com multipliers? Dell is currently 4x and LG is 3x. I need to make a relatively large purchase in the next few weeks and would be happy to wait if either of them typically go higher. Thanks

Nov 21, 2022, 10:52 am

#1878

WannaTheater

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Originally Posted by njvandy

Check out https://www.cashbackmonitor.com/

You can search by company name, from which you will find a link for "View Best Rate History"

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Nov 21, 2022, 10:54 am

#1879

rrgg

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For Dell, you will see separate entries for Dell Consumer, Dell Tech, and so on, so you'll have to search for just "Dell" and then check a few different results to see the history.

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Nov 21, 2022, 11:13 am

#1880

Soccerjoshj07

Join Date: Apr 2016

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Originally Posted by njvandy

I've seen Dell go like 6 or 8x, but it's most commonly at 4x. If you can wait without risk of your items being sold out, maybe over black friday it'll go higher.

Nov 21, 2022, 11:48 am

#1881

Ned13

Join Date: Oct 2022

Posts: 25

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Originally Posted by njvandy

FWIW I've had terrible luck with Dell posting on time. It feels like to them, a large purchase = a business purchase and therefore they refuse to credit points.

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Nov 21, 2022, 8:25 pm

#1882

majikTib

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GC.com promo came in email today, BFVIP, listed as $5 off $100 visa virtual.... However I applied it to a $350 purchase + fees and checked out at $344.40. It's also tracking on the portal and with an email.

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Nov 22, 2022, 12:06 pm

#1883

Jason Story

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I placed a large order with iRobot.com >$5K @ 11x points and the same with Saks 5th avenue. How long do they normally take to post?

Nov 22, 2022, 12:10 pm

#1884

Ned13

Join Date: Oct 2022

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Originally Posted by Jason Story

I placed a large order with iRobot.com >$5K @ 11x points and the same with Saks 5th avenue. How long do they normally take to post?

Gosh man how many dogs do you have?

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Nov 22, 2022, 12:57 pm

#1885

WannaTheater

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Originally Posted by Jason Story

I placed a large order with iRobot.com >$5K @ 11x points and the same with Saks 5th avenue. How long do they normally take to post?

In reading through this thread, it varies greatly. In my experience, small orders generally post within a week.
I am still waiting, and sending follow-up emails, for a 5K order to Samsung on 10/6.
My wife just got 1500 points from a Macys order back in June (she had to send multiple emails).
My takeaway from this forum thread is to be cautiously optimistic, and patient.... which I am doing my best to be

Nov 23, 2022, 8:52 am

#1886

Antarius

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Originally Posted by Ned13

Gosh man how many dogs do you have?

I was wondering the same thing. That's a lot of roombas.

Nov 23, 2022, 8:53 am

#1887

Antarius

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I recently got several Mastercards as part of the sale and am not able to make them work with Paypal. They authenticate fine on Paypal, but the processing fails saying invalid code. Never had this issue using Visa egift cards.

Anyone have any experience or thoughts?

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Nov 23, 2022, 9:07 am

#1888

Mr. BoH

Join Date: Apr 2011

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Couple giftcards.com data points to share:
1. The BFVIP code seems to actually be 5% off, not $5 off $100
2. It seems to be tracking fine through cartera.
3. I did get an error message eventually of "You have already met your spending limit on virtual gifts for the day". New to me. Not sure if it is a new limit or I just never bought enough before to trigger it.

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Nov 23, 2022, 2:24 pm

#1889

coolbeans202

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Quote:

Originally Posted by njvandy

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Originally Posted by Ned13

FWIW I've had terrible luck with Dell posting on time. It feels like to them, a large purchase = a business purchase and therefore they refuse to credit points.

I've also had terrible luck with Dell posting on time. It took well over 90 days for a July purchase to post and another purchase I'm anticipating another purchase from Dell two weeks ago will also take a long time. I emailed in on the first purchase but I'm going to let the second one go until the 90 day mark and see what happens (there is fine print that the vendor won't look until after 90 days have passed). Of note, both of these were technically Dell Technologies.

Nov 23, 2022, 2:49 pm

#1890

LeastP

Join Date: Jan 2022

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Originally Posted by Mr. BoH

How much did you buy to hit that limit?