MyPoints and Hilton Honors: The Definitive Thread
Mar 1, 2003, 10:23 pm
#16
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: PDX
Programs: HHonors Gold since '02, Hertz President's Circle since '07
Posts: 3,226
I can't really answer your question, but you may be interested in Jet2K's comments in MilesBuzz. He worked for a company that did lots of transferring of points, miles, etc.
Who knows what validation criteria they use?
Now, you could try to get your daughter and you in a mutual fund if you don't have one with someone else. It is supposed to be spouses only, but various other combinations have been reported with mixed success.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Each airline's redemption communication process is different. It ranged from using FTP, email (secured and unsecured), mailing a floppy of redemption data, to sending out the files to be converted to Unix format and transferred to a magnetic tape before sending to the airline. This is probably part of the reason that why it takes varying amount of time to get your transferred points to show up. Also, this process happens on a recurring intervals, a few daily, some weekly, some monthly and some on less regular basis.
Each airline has different validation rules for account numbers. Most has check digits that we have to embed in our software that will kick out invalid account numbers. They usually also require matching names and accounts, and kick out non-matches back to us. The error communication process often uses similar technology as the outbound, tapes, floppy, email, ...etc. Often times, when a particular transaction errs out, it takes manual intevention to correct it. There are sometimes transactions that got ping-pong back and forth and took forever to resolve. </font>
Each airline has different validation rules for account numbers. Most has check digits that we have to embed in our software that will kick out invalid account numbers. They usually also require matching names and accounts, and kick out non-matches back to us. The error communication process often uses similar technology as the outbound, tapes, floppy, email, ...etc. Often times, when a particular transaction errs out, it takes manual intevention to correct it. There are sometimes transactions that got ping-pong back and forth and took forever to resolve. </font>
Now, you could try to get your daughter and you in a mutual fund if you don't have one with someone else. It is supposed to be spouses only, but various other combinations have been reported with mixed success.
Mar 4, 2003, 8:49 pm
#17
Join Date: May 2001
Location: ORF & AUS; I have an ex-wife and and an ex-house in both cities.
Programs: AA Gold, DL GM, Hilton Diamond, SPG Gold
Posts: 891
Earn 500 Hilton HHonors bonus points when you join MyPoints
Saw this on the Hilton Hhonors website:
MyPoints is a free membership program where you earn Points for shopping, reading emails and more. Accrue 1,000 MyPoints Points and redeem them for HHonors rewards. Click here for details.
http://www.mypoints.com/mp/dmp?objec...anding.default
MyPoints is a free membership program where you earn Points for shopping, reading emails and more. Accrue 1,000 MyPoints Points and redeem them for HHonors rewards. Click here for details.
http://www.mypoints.com/mp/dmp?objec...anding.default
Mar 5, 2003, 5:30 am
#20
Join Date: May 2001
Location: ORF & AUS; I have an ex-wife and and an ex-house in both cities.
Programs: AA Gold, DL GM, Hilton Diamond, SPG Gold
Posts: 891
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by welookgood.com:
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This has been known for some time...if anyone wants a referral email me</font>
Mar 5, 2003, 10:05 am
#23
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: RSW
Programs: Delta - Silver; UA - Silver; HHonors - Diamond; IHG - Spire Ambassador; Marriott Bonvoy - Titanium
Posts: 14,185
Coincidentally, I joined them just before this thread appeared.
I have not given my HHonors info to MyPoints so I don't see how this bonus works?
I have not given my HHonors info to MyPoints so I don't see how this bonus works?
Mar 7, 2003, 4:31 am
#24
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: IAD
Programs: UA1P, HH Gold
Posts: 606
MyPoints to Hilton x-fer?
I transferred 2000 pts from MyPoints to Hilton last week after buying my Amtrak ticket, but nothing has posted to my Hilton account. I was expecting to see something this morning since I'd heard the update happens on Thursday nights. Has anyone else had this problem? Should I be concerned?
Mar 7, 2003, 6:58 am
#26
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 873
Same here: nothing posted last night. On the MyPoints site they still show "Pending redemption".
Previous transfers always showed up in my HHonors account on Friday morning.
Apparently many of us didn't have any points posting last night, so hopefully it is a problem with MyPoints or Hilton and has nothing to do with the individual account.
With all these nice offers on MyPoints last week (I accrued about 7000 points for less than 6$) they maybe ran out of HHonors points
Previous transfers always showed up in my HHonors account on Friday morning.
Apparently many of us didn't have any points posting last night, so hopefully it is a problem with MyPoints or Hilton and has nothing to do with the individual account.
With all these nice offers on MyPoints last week (I accrued about 7000 points for less than 6$) they maybe ran out of HHonors points
Mar 7, 2003, 8:56 am
#29
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Houston, Texas
Programs: United 1K, Marriott Plat, HHonors Diamond
Posts: 653
It's been a week since I bought my Amtrak ticket and tried to convert 3,000 MyPoints to HHonors. My order remains at "Pending Processing." I called MyPoints to find out what the deal was, and they just said, oh, it takes a while sometimes with no indication of how long the wait might be. In my experience, MyPoints has been absolutely horrendous in both posting points to my account and to HHonors. It's frustrating.
Mar 10, 2003, 10:14 am
#30
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Chattanooga, TN USA, HH Dia, DL PM, IHG Spire
Posts: 59
I just tried to check my account and It has been disabled. I bought Amtrak ticket last week and the points posted to my account. I hope something hasn't gone wrong. Paranoia??
Any ideas?
Any ideas?