Does anyone have any experience with Points.com?
Nov 1, 2009 | 11:10 am
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Does anyone have any experience with Points.com?
Does anyone have any experience transferring miles between programs with Points.com? They seem to take away most of the miles as a fee when you transfer. The only use I can see for this program is to transfer a small number of miles in order to log a transaction that would prevent miles from expiring.
Nov 1, 2009 | 12:07 pm
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There are some existing discussion threads about Points.com in MilesBuzz Forum alone. I recall seeing Points.com mentioned in SPAM Forum as well.
You may search and research on your own or start by reading this recent thread:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/miles...oints-com.html
IMHO, this may be the only & best use of Points for any savvy FTer. 
You may search and research on your own or start by reading this recent thread:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/miles...oints-com.html
Nov 1, 2009 | 12:18 pm
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A small transfer from one program to another via points.com has also counted as an easy "partner transaction" in some of the recent partner promotions, i.e. Priority Club.
Nov 3, 2009 | 12:40 pm
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I used their website back when they did the merging of my AW/US accounts, and I viewed few other account balances there regularly. I didn't use them for balance transfers because most conversions were lousy.
But, then I noticed that Award Wallet stored many more of my accounts, so I switched to them to view my balances.
But, then I noticed that Award Wallet stored many more of my accounts, so I switched to them to view my balances.
Nov 3, 2009 | 2:10 pm
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A few years ago I transfered my orphan YX miles over to AA using them. It was a good experience especially as 250 AA miles are worth more than 2,200 YX miles to me.
Dec 2, 2009 | 9:42 am
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mysterious deposit of miles
Strange event: I signed up with points.com in Oct. 2006, through an AS offer of 10 pts., and haven't visited the site since. Well, today I got two deposits of miles into my AS acct. One for 2500 and one for 1000. 3500 miles for nothing. What's up? Anyone else ever see miles mysteriously appear? 
Dec 2, 2009 | 10:50 am
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Strange event: I signed up with points.com in Oct. 2006, through an AS offer of 10 pts., and haven't visited the site since. Well, today I got two deposits of miles into my AS acct. One for 2500 and one for 1000. 3500 miles for nothing. What's up? Anyone else ever see miles mysteriously appear?
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Dec 2, 2009 | 11:06 am
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Dec 2, 2009 | 7:21 pm
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Also, got 200 more AS miles today when I updated my acct. Sweeeeet.