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Originally Posted by PatMike
(Post 15409082)
I had that recently happen to me. A friend asked if he could buy some of my miles. I just sort of shrugged off the comment, but was later annoyed by the request and started thinking...
I generally redeem for international trips giving me 6-7% return per mile, however I recently redeemed 150K BA miles (with a companion cert) for two First class tickets worth $24K. I will get 30K redeposited back into my account due to a Chase promo, so my net is 120,000 BA miles. After I deduct the fuel and tax charges, I'm getting $22,808 in airfare for 120K miles. If someone wants to buy my miles, my new price is 19 cents per mile. |
I've never had anyone request miles from me. But I've spontaneously bought tickets for friends with miles when I knew they needed it. Case-in-point, I had a friend who really wanted to see her fiancee, but couldn't afford the airfare (LAX-ORD). So I burned a few miles a set her up with a ticket. Costs me nothing in the grand scheme of things, and makes people happy. I think I was willing to do it specifically because she hadn't asked or angled for it. It's nice to be generous, but also not to have people expecting/asking you.
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Originally Posted by Rus925
(Post 15409266)
Plugging the companion chit into the price is a little much, though. 10¢ per mile, maybe. ;)
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Each member of immediate family receives a FC trip annually
If going to family function and a sibling says they can use their TWA miles, I will pick up the flight tab so we go together. Once an employee asked for flights to the Islands to make a wedding. Easy way to keep a key employee happy. Before the wise remarks; Don't need any more relatives or employees |
Originally Posted by MelesMeles
(Post 15412672)
I've never had anyone request miles from me. But I've spontaneously bought tickets for friends with miles when I knew they needed it.
I have had this problem. Especially when I was in grad school and traveling a lot. Colege students love to play the poor card. Like Meles, I have shared, but rather than saying no I usually offer to help them get their own. 45 minutes into the math, and white board drawings, and explanations they usually nod quietly, leave, and don't ask again. :D |
Originally Posted by avsfan733
(Post 15418449)
45 minutes into the math, and white board drawings, and explanations they usually nod quietly, leave, and don't ask again. :D
It's not MY fault when they say "So tell me more about what you do. Really, I'm interested!" |
Originally Posted by silver-tls
(Post 15373375)
We just finished the Thanksgiving holiday and fast approaching Christmas. How many of you find yourselves turning down requests from family, friends and co-workers asking if you can give them some miles since they are 'free'.
I usually reserve my miles to redeem tickets for my wife and immediate family while purchasing revenue tickets for myself (I can't bear to get on a plane knowing I'm not earning anything by doing so! I blame FT!) Every year I find myself turning down requests from random friends who complain about a $500 fare to FLL to see their family for Christmas and ask if they can have some of those 'free miles' I have sitting in my account and not using. Do I ask you for $500 from your bank account since its sitting there and you're not using it? People tend to forget that miles have value and they aren't free. They're earned one way or another! |
Sometimes I will have to stop a friend or family from 'wasting' their miles though. One buddy saved for 3 years to get FC tickets to HAWAII for a family of 4. I think at the time they were 60k per ticket. I brokered a 3 way deal that worked out and probably shed new light on the mileage world to them all:
Buddy #1 going to Hawaii: Instead of 240k miles, he used them to redeem 2 J tickets to Southeast Asia for buddy #2 Buddy #2 bot 4 coach tickets for $1800 to Hawaii for buddy #1 Buddy #3 used 8 expiring CR1s that he had no idea he even had and in return, got a VERY good referral from buddy #2. |
You have great friends. I think all my friends would give up in frustration at the mere mention of such an arrangement.
Originally Posted by silver-tls
(Post 15422401)
Sometimes I will have to stop a friend or family from 'wasting' their miles though. One buddy saved for 3 years to get FC tickets to HAWAII for a family of 4. I think at the time they were 60k per ticket. I brokered a 3 way deal that worked out and probably shed new light on the mileage world to them all:
Buddy #1 going to Hawaii: Instead of 240k miles, he used them to redeem 2 J tickets to Southeast Asia for buddy #2 Buddy #2 bot 4 coach tickets for $1800 to Hawaii for buddy #1 Buddy #3 used 8 expiring CR1s that he had no idea he even had and in return, got a VERY good referral from buddy #2. |
Originally Posted by Rus925
(Post 15422543)
You have great friends. I think all my friends would give up in frustration at the mere mention of such an arrangement.
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Originally Posted by silver-tls
(Post 15422401)
Sometimes I will have to stop a friend or family from 'wasting' their miles though. One buddy saved for 3 years to get FC tickets to HAWAII for a family of 4. I think at the time they were 60k per ticket. I brokered a 3 way deal that worked out and probably shed new light on the mileage world to them all:
Buddy #1 going to Hawaii: Instead of 240k miles, he used them to redeem 2 J tickets to Southeast Asia for buddy #2 Buddy #2 bot 4 coach tickets for $1800 to Hawaii for buddy #1 Buddy #3 used 8 expiring CR1s that he had no idea he even had and in return, got a VERY good referral from buddy #2. Do you invest in derivatives too? |
Some make the plunge, others merely think that I'm defrauding the system. However, they don't see the hypocrisy when they ask for tickets to anywhere because "you got them for nothing."
To be blessed with these types of friends and family. |
I always give away my miles to friends and family, i'd rather do that than hoard them for myself
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Heck i cant even convince myself to use miles on my GF
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Originally Posted by Mintman10
(Post 15424982)
I always give away my miles to friends and family, i'd rather do that than hoard them for myself
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