Feb 18, 2015, 5:57 pm
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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.
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:
Some anti-virus software silently blocks tracking, and you may want to consider disabling it for your purchase.
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.
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
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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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.
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"
Some anti-virus software silently blocks tracking, and you may want to consider disabling it for your purchase.
AAdvantage eShopping / Cartera Questions / Discussion / Vendors / Issues (archive)
Jun 8, 2022, 10:47 am
#1006
Join Date: Nov 2021
Location: LBB
Programs: AA EXP, Hyatt Explorist, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 48
Following up from my prior issue. Laithwaites is really dragging their feet or just dropped the ball completely. Purchased on 3/17 for the 3000LP bonus. Nothing posted, so on 3/31, opened a case with AA. Here we are now nearly 2.5 months since opening case and nearly 3 months since purchase with no resolution. AA shopping CS has replied to me (when I inquire) that they are still waiting for and contacting merchant, noting that they see how long this has gone and "will escalate". At what point will - if at all - AA just give the credit, or will they perpetually wait for Laithwaites to confirm/deny the bonus?
I've had no problems with any other shopping portal purchases or aa hotel/rocketmile postings.
I've had no problems with any other shopping portal purchases or aa hotel/rocketmile postings.
Jun 8, 2022, 12:53 pm
#1007
Join Date: Apr 2022
Location: ATL
Programs: AA EXP
Posts: 113
Hoping I don't have this same issue with Bright Cellars. Purchased 10 days ago and nothing has posted. Already submitted an inquiry but they told me to wait 5 days until they will be able to look into it.
Jun 8, 2022, 3:19 pm
#1008
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Oct 2014
Posts: 10,904
I figure that there's about a 99% chance that I'll get an irrelevant canned reply from someone who didn't read the email but it was worth a shot.
Jun 8, 2022, 4:26 pm
#1009
Join Date: Sep 2009
Programs: AA Executive Platinum, Marriott Lifetime Titanium, IHG Platinum
Posts: 1,420
A couple of GiftCards.com questions-
1) I just purchased a Virtual Visa for $100+$5.95 fee. minus 5% off using MEMORIALDAYVISA. It said it was tracking for 3x. I sent this to my girlfriend. She had to create a virtual visa account to redeem it... Is this normal?
2) Is there a better/cheaper way to do this?
3) Should I sign up for Giftcards.com account? Is there some sort of sign up bonus/benefits? (I thought I read about a 2K bonus about 20 pages back).
4) Should the giftcards be in my own name/email address? (It seems like if I am planning on using a giftcard somewhere it would need to be in my name...). Is there a recommended practice here?
Thanks!
1) I just purchased a Virtual Visa for $100+$5.95 fee. minus 5% off using MEMORIALDAYVISA. It said it was tracking for 3x. I sent this to my girlfriend. She had to create a virtual visa account to redeem it... Is this normal?
2) Is there a better/cheaper way to do this?
3) Should I sign up for Giftcards.com account? Is there some sort of sign up bonus/benefits? (I thought I read about a 2K bonus about 20 pages back).
4) Should the giftcards be in my own name/email address? (It seems like if I am planning on using a giftcard somewhere it would need to be in my name...). Is there a recommended practice here?
Thanks!
Jun 8, 2022, 4:27 pm
#1010
Join Date: Sep 2009
Programs: AA Executive Platinum, Marriott Lifetime Titanium, IHG Platinum
Posts: 1,420
Also, which Motley Fool product is recommended?
Jun 8, 2022, 5:42 pm
#1011
Join Date: Jun 2022
Posts: 23
A couple of GiftCards.com questions-
1) I just purchased a Virtual Visa for $100+$5.95 fee. minus 5% off using MEMORIALDAYVISA. It said it was tracking for 3x. I sent this to my girlfriend. She had to create a virtual visa account to redeem it... Is this normal?
2) Is there a better/cheaper way to do this?
3) Should I sign up for Giftcards.com account? Is there some sort of sign up bonus/benefits? (I thought I read about a 2K bonus about 20 pages back).
4) Should the giftcards be in my own name/email address? (It seems like if I am planning on using a giftcard somewhere it would need to be in my name...). Is there a recommended practice here?
Thanks!
1) I just purchased a Virtual Visa for $100+$5.95 fee. minus 5% off using MEMORIALDAYVISA. It said it was tracking for 3x. I sent this to my girlfriend. She had to create a virtual visa account to redeem it... Is this normal?
2) Is there a better/cheaper way to do this?
3) Should I sign up for Giftcards.com account? Is there some sort of sign up bonus/benefits? (I thought I read about a 2K bonus about 20 pages back).
4) Should the giftcards be in my own name/email address? (It seems like if I am planning on using a giftcard somewhere it would need to be in my name...). Is there a recommended practice here?
Thanks!
2) Not that I know of. With codes, you can sometimes get virtual visa accounts at face value or a discount, both of which are bonus value since you get the LPs for purchasing it, assuming you use it to pay for something that wouldn't earn you better credit card rewards outright. There was a code that let you get them at a discount, even with the fee on top of it, but that is no longer available.
3) For for virtual visa accounts, there is probably not a benefit for having a giftcards.com account besides having a convenient order history to view. However, if you purchase any other merchant gift cards, they give you 1% back in store credit for each. I'm not sure about the 2K part, but anecdotally from reading this thread, it sounds like you can only get LP credit for up to $2000 worth of purchases here per month. Hopefully someone else can clarify this.
4) I haven't done that many, but I've always just put them in my name for ease of use.
Jun 8, 2022, 5:48 pm
#1012
Join Date: May 2008
Location: PHL (kinda, no airport is really close)
Programs: AA Exp, but not sure for how long. Enterprise Platinum woo-hoo!
Posts: 4,550
A couple of GiftCards.com questions-
1) I just purchased a Virtual Visa for $100+$5.95 fee. minus 5% off using MEMORIALDAYVISA. It said it was tracking for 3x. I sent this to my girlfriend. She had to create a virtual visa account to redeem it... Is this normal?
2) Is there a better/cheaper way to do this?
3) Should I sign up for Giftcards.com account? Is there some sort of sign up bonus/benefits? (I thought I read about a 2K bonus about 20 pages back).
4) Should the giftcards be in my own name/email address? (It seems like if I am planning on using a giftcard somewhere it would need to be in my name...). Is there a recommended practice here?
Thanks!
1) I just purchased a Virtual Visa for $100+$5.95 fee. minus 5% off using MEMORIALDAYVISA. It said it was tracking for 3x. I sent this to my girlfriend. She had to create a virtual visa account to redeem it... Is this normal?
2) Is there a better/cheaper way to do this?
3) Should I sign up for Giftcards.com account? Is there some sort of sign up bonus/benefits? (I thought I read about a 2K bonus about 20 pages back).
4) Should the giftcards be in my own name/email address? (It seems like if I am planning on using a giftcard somewhere it would need to be in my name...). Is there a recommended practice here?
Thanks!
It's not clear exactly what you're trying to accomplish. I've bought and redeemed a lot of GC's in my own name. The only time I purcahsed it in someone else's name was when I actually wanted to give money to a friend.
The giftcards.com account and the registration of the card by the recipient are totally different things.
So far, I have used my virtual GC's to pay my health insurance bill and I've only had to give the card number and expiration date - no name, address, or CVC code. It's probably different if you want to use them on Amazon or AA.com or something like that.
Jun 8, 2022, 8:19 pm
#1013
Join Date: Nov 2021
Location: LBB
Programs: AA EXP, Hyatt Explorist, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 48
I don't find any of it actually useful. Just pick one that gets you the points. There's some interesting metrics but the stock picking advice is pretty meh. They make it easy to cancel and unsubscribe to the emails at least. I got my points pretty much right away. I know others have had issues with them though.
Jun 8, 2022, 10:44 pm
#1014
Join Date: Aug 2021
Programs: Frontier 100k, AA Exec Plat, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 40
Jun 9, 2022, 9:35 am
#1015
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Philadelphia
Posts: 2,506
Any update on this (apologies if I missed it above)? I signed up for D+ but may cancel prior to the trial period and sign up again to hope that there is no free trial (and it does say a new paid sub, so as long as I don't make a payment, I'm hoping that would be fine).
Jun 9, 2022, 9:53 am
#1016
Join Date: Sep 2009
Programs: AA Executive Platinum, Marriott Lifetime Titanium, IHG Platinum
Posts: 1,420
3) For for virtual visa accounts, there is probably not a benefit for having a giftcards.com account besides having a convenient order history to view. However, if you purchase any other merchant gift cards, they give you 1% back in store credit for each. I'm not sure about the 2K part, but anecdotally from reading this thread, it sounds like you can only get LP credit for up to $2000 worth of purchases here per month. Hopefully someone else can clarify this.
Jun 9, 2022, 10:22 am
#1017
Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: BNA
Programs: AA Plat, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 54
I don't find any of it actually useful. Just pick one that gets you the points. There's some interesting metrics but the stock picking advice is pretty meh. They make it easy to cancel and unsubscribe to the emails at least. I got my points pretty much right away. I know others have had issues with them though.
Jun 9, 2022, 12:27 pm
#1019
Join Date: Mar 2019
Location: DCA
Programs: AA platinum
Posts: 17
Is it just me or is the non-virtual Visa giftcard no longer available? I just ordered a virtual visa with the discount code but I hope a code not on the portal isn't something inviting clawback. I wonder if non-virtual was removed because of the problem with Google Pay? Also noticed a Safeway card listed among the cards under Brands, but it said "no longer available" when I clicked.
Tire Rack, which I've used for many years, is 4x today instead of 3x in case you need tires shipped to you or an installer. If you own a Corvette, a new set of tires could get you EXP.
Tire Rack, which I've used for many years, is 4x today instead of 3x in case you need tires shipped to you or an installer. If you own a Corvette, a new set of tires could get you EXP.
