Firewind

I've moved credit cards around RewardsNetwork from program to program to pick up the bonuses. (I actually keep one in AAdvantage for the RN status.) I recently tried to move my Chase M+ Visa from the USAir to the United program. I got, in red, that I'd already used that number, and was blocked. The number at issue was my M+ number, not the credit card one. If this were true, it was years ago, because I can't ever remember attaching either card to "Mileage Plus" Dining. So one of the reasons for putting "circled back" in quotes in the title is that I didn't even know that I was.

I've participated in discussions on this board about moving cards around. Two questions: Are the sages chuckling because you already knew that "you can't go back"? Or conversely, do you know better in the opposite direction, and I should forge on -- as in, calling UA Dining? (Actually this one is the 1,000 miles offered by Chase. ...And it says enrollment has to be through the portal.) Thank you.

(I also saw, as I said when reporting the Chase M+ credit card United Dining 1,000 mile bonus in the sticky thread above, that the promo page says, "As a Chase Cardmember, you're already automatically enrolled in Mileage Plus Dining, earning 1 mile per dollar..." etc. I wonder if this - however far back - knocked me out.)

Points Scrounger

I bolded that sentence because I don't understand exactly what happened to you - what's the difference between your "M+ number" and "the credit card one"?

Firewind

Sorry. I didn't get notice of your comment... What I meant was that they wouldn't let me re-use the 11-digit number that's on my 1K card. The issue was not that I'd used my 16-digit credit card number before, in the UA or any other dining program. Upon completing the Enrollment page, and clicking "continue>>", I get it again with this in red:

I've never enrolled, or used it (or either of my credit cards), in Mileage Plus Dining before.

Points Scrounger

Sounds like some sort of bug/glitch - you'll need to call to find out details.

Firewind

I called. No go. Turns out that the record shows that I "closed" my Mileage Plus Dining account back in 2004. That must have been when I deliberately enrolled in AAdvantage Dining. I know I never deliberately enrolled in the M+ Dining. So, what I'm also saying is that that "automatic" enrollment in M+ Dining when you first get a Chase M+ Visa, that I mentioned above, effectively knocks you out of ever getting an enrollment bonus under the M+ dining program.

Oh well.

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Addendum: FWIW, parsing this one a little further, this "Jet Setter Bonus" is actually for setting up a profile, not for joining per se...

http://mpdining.rewardsnetwork.com/b...ve.offers.4.09

So, says I: Self, enroll over the phone, and come back and set up a profile. Enrolled over the phone. (Moved my card over from Dividend Dining.) Came back to set up a profile. No. So, strictly speaking, it's possible to circle back, but not to get a bonus when you do so. Not with M+ Dining.

Points Scrounger

You can't close an account, and re-open one for the same airline FF#?

Makes sense - otherwise they'd be handing out "new member" promo miles like Halloween candy.

Firewind

Right, but insert the part about moving a credit card to another dining program for its enrollment bonus in the meantime. So not just "an open and shut case" . I thought I'd seen elsewhere on this board that people have circled back to a program they'd been enrolled in previously.