try clubbing.com

It is Club Bing, where you can play games, earn points, then buy miles with the points. It used to be called Live Search Club, tons of posts on this.

mypoints.com .. 5000 mypoints transfer to 2500 UA miles. its not that difficult to earn these points

work for it!
 

Another thing you could do is ask your employer to pay you in points and miles. How? Well, if he/she has a lot of miles, have him/her book all your flights. If employer has points at hotel chains, rooms can often be booked as well.

:D


Then quit them promptly and be tempted nay further, for they are evil!

I rarely do more than merely click to get the 5 points but today I signed up for RewardTV through MyPoints and got 25 more points for doing so... And, at http://www.rewardtv.com, you simply enter the TV shows you saw on the given day and answer trivia about them and the commercials aired during these shows. You rack up points (surveys are long but kinda cool) and these can be used for many things. I am not sure if miles is one of them, but gift cards are and those are worth money. Interestingly enough, I found I remembered more about commercials than the show haha


:)MM

pgary's site, http://www.freefrequentflyermiles.com has a comprehensive and (usually) up-to-date listing of pretty much any way you can get miles, for nothing or otherwise.

In the 8 or so years I have been familiar with Gary and his site from this and other forums, he has offered his ideas and information for free, and this is great. Many thanks to this. It carries forth much of the karma that surrounds and makes possible the world of mile and point sharing.

BUT, can ya'll imagine if he had somehow charged or received say, just 10 miles to use his site? Why, he'd have enough to circle the globe many times over!

Just a thought. :D

A note to the OP... you need to earn by all the means possible, not just one. Free miles, earned from flights, credit cards, and promos and even the schemas such as the coins from the US Mint. This is the best way to get there, where ever there may be. This forum is where people discuss and share ideas about the best and worst places to do business and how best to get your points. Good luck.

:)MM

Debit cards, too......:D

and gift cards...

and dumpster diving

opinionplace.com survey

OP: from responses it seems that the question is: without traveling, hotels, renting cars, or paying money.

Let's all hear about dumpster diving for points stories

Lots of way for few miles. But you'll probably never get to an award level (or it'll take forever) using only those techniques.

But why mix "credit cards" and "purchase links" as equivalent? There's a lot of difference between "not spending extra money" and plain "not spending any money".

For example the US Mint (which has its own whole thread here in MilesBuzz): You have to spend money, but you get it all back (boxes of coins are shipped to you with you only paying for the face value of the coins, no shipping charges, and thus once you deposit the coins you've gotten back all the money you spent). And yet you earn miles from the purchase.

Similarly, is switching from a credit card that gives you no rewards to a credit card that gives you miles really "spending extra money", if you simply make the same purchases you would have otherwise made? (Yes, such miles-earning cards usually have an annual fee, but often no annual the first year, and not necessarily any need to keep them into the second year, since for many people, the miles earned from ongoing purchases are dwarfed by the sign-up bonuses.)

Here's another thread over SPAM Forum you may want to take a look at :

Any full list of ways to get (free) points/miles?

good point....

Volunteering for AMEX MRs
 

And then there is volunteering for AMEX Membership Rewards....

Well, I already have that many miles, just by following my own advice. It's easy. But the concept of "too many miles" has no meaning for me. So please, tell me how to do this. Anyone?