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Originally Posted by sdsearch (Post 19489246)

Great, but that only has to with when you rented.

Mine just posted too (on Oct 10, it says), but it took almost a whole month.

In other words, Avis->Carlson seems to happen about once a month at most.

It thus dpends when in the month your rental closes as to "how fast" it posts. My rental was Sep 5-15. Your presumably ended a week or two later, but since they all posted in the second week of October, yours seemed like "two weeks" while mine seemed like "almost a month".

Transfers between two partners don't take a set amount of time; they happen on a set frequency.

AKA "a sweep".

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Originally Posted by nacho (Post 19503682)

I'm based in Sweden and maybe that's the reason.

Do you have to use that AWD in order to get the point? Last time I looked for my rental the AWD code was a lot more expensive (I think it's about $100 difference).

I had trouble getting my SAS 3k bonus points with Avis - I think the reason was that I didn't use their AWD.

I tried to use Avis.com to get cash back, but somehow they claim that I used a invalid coupon :confused: (it was an free upgrade coupon supplied by ebates and fortunately ebates still paid me the $ back).

Which AWD you need to use may depend on the airline.

It used to be that BA said you had to not only use a BA AWD to get BA miles, but had to use a different BA AWD depending on your elite status level (if any) at BA!

That was later relaxed somewhat, but even when it was, there was still a restriction that you couldn't use "corporate" AWDs if you wanted to earn BA miles.

The US airlines don't care if you use another airline's AWD, but again they may restrict some other types of AWD. IMHO, it's dangerous to use a "random" AWD if you don't know who it's from and don't know whether it works with your particular airline.

I don't participate in SAS (I use UA for *A) so I have no idea what requirements, if any, they specfically may have.

(And I don't do any cashback website stuff myself, so I can't help you with that issue.)

Anyway, back to Carlson, their AWD always gave me good rates, so I didn't try using anything else, so I don't have experience with whether Carlson needs something else. Did you look through the main thread on this promo over in the Carlson forum?

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/club-...ct-2012-a.html

Thanks! I did look through the thread and I even saw it last year too. It seems to me that there is no need to use their AWD to get the bonus points.

I used a AWD for Barclays Bank last time when I rented in SFO. No question asked.

It was much more expensive when I compared CC's AWD vs the one I used last time, and that's why I decided to drop the points. Also I think I won't be able to get my cash back if I use that CC's coupon code - of course I have to see if the CC points worth more than the CB amount.

I don't know what happened to SAS points with Avis. I saw several people had issue with it too - and someone there said that if you don't use SAS's AWD then you are not qualify for the bonus points.

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Originally Posted by nacho (Post 19503682)

Do you have to use that AWD in order to get the point?

In short: Yes.

Like the old adage about glorious theories (that the system got jammed, that it was just the wait for the sweep, that it was both of these theories together) getting trumped by a pesky fact, I finally called after one over three months and one at three weeks didn't go through. Responses (x3): I didn't use the promo's AWD, so no Carlson points. In the earlier case, I could have earned the big AA miles before that promo expired. Alas.

I posted this elsewhere, and just remembered this thread.

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Originally Posted by Firewind (Post 19574157)

That's what I thought as well. So my theory is right - you need the actual AWD to get a particular promo. The very same with SAS - I got the regular 500 and no more even though I rented a car that qualified for the 3k bonus points.

No, it just depends on which other AWD you use. For some AWD codes, the companies negotiated rate precludes the earning of FF miles. I've been using the Southwest AWD to earn Carlson points without problem.

But A515100 did work for the Avis=>AA (3,000 mi./day) partner promo straight on through, though it wasn't the one specified in that promo. And just to nail the point about this Avis=>CC one, I didn't get small points. Zip.