Win an iPad - just by talking about miles and flying!
Mar 1, 2011 | 6:34 pm
#1
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In memoriam
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Win an iPad - just by talking about miles and flying!
Enter the draw to win an iPad - one a day for every day of March! All you need to do is register to join MilePoint - where you'll see many familiar faces you know and love, and get to talk about your favourite hobbies - miles & flying!
As you probably well know - MilePoint is indeed complimentary to FlyerTalk, and you'll find some great information, friends, and community spirit on both.
So what are you waiting for? Come win an iPad!
As you probably well know - MilePoint is indeed complimentary to FlyerTalk, and you'll find some great information, friends, and community spirit on both.
So what are you waiting for? Come win an iPad!
Mar 1, 2011 | 8:01 pm
#2
Join Date: May 2009
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Enter the draw to win an iPad - one a day for every day of March! All you need to do is register to join MilePoint - where you'll see many familiar faces you know and love, and get to talk about your favourite hobbies - miles & flying!
As you probably well know - MilePoint is indeed complimentary to FlyerTalk, and you'll find some great information, friends, and community spirit on both.
So what are you waiting for? Come win an iPad!
As you probably well know - MilePoint is indeed complimentary to FlyerTalk, and you'll find some great information, friends, and community spirit on both.
So what are you waiting for? Come win an iPad!
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Mar 1, 2011 | 9:31 pm
#4
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Call me cynical, but isn't MilePoint simply a new business venture for Randy Petersen now that he has sold out of FlyerTalk and presumably some sort of non-compete agreement he had with Internet Brands has now expired?
Mar 1, 2011 | 9:34 pm
#5
Join Date: May 2009
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I already prefer Milepoint's site structure, to be completely honest.
Mar 1, 2011 | 10:05 pm
#6
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Of course MilePoint is a business. So is FlyerTalk. Randy is passionate about this topic and both of these communities, and he is still an active contributor to FlyerTalk and part of our community here. As with any business, competition is healthy. In this case though, both of those competitors can work together in many ways to build knowledge, businesses, friendships, relationships, and even families. No-one is being asked to pick "one or the other."
Mar 2, 2011 | 4:42 am
#7
Join Date: Feb 1999
Location: Denver CO
Posts: 3,686
I'm hoping Milepoint will become a focal point for informed discussion, and avoid the twitter/text message type of dialogues that have become typical on FT. I don't need to read a post about every call to a CSR that says "Me too".
Mar 2, 2011 | 5:21 am
#8
Join Date: Sep 2009
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They better hurry up. One of their admins already got sucked into a pissing contest. That is not a good sign.
Mar 2, 2011 | 8:29 am
#9
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I'm hopeful that because it's less commercial, we'll see less of the newbie "call about a mistake fare", "spoon feed me" mentality over there.
Mar 2, 2011 | 11:27 am
#10
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Could be just me but that's my first impression. I'll give it some time.
Mar 25, 2011 | 10:41 am
#12
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Maybe it just takes time for a site to mature, but I too have not found Milepoint very helpful. The density of useful information is very low and it is much more difficult to wade through what is not of value.
Perhaps it is also a matter of what I am used to, but for now, I still find FT a far better site for finding out what I need to know and for quickly learning about new stuff I did not previously know about. It has made me appreciate the FT monitors a lot more.
Perhaps it is also a matter of what I am used to, but for now, I still find FT a far better site for finding out what I need to know and for quickly learning about new stuff I did not previously know about. It has made me appreciate the FT monitors a lot more.
Mar 25, 2011 | 1:36 pm
#13
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I would love to visit MilePoint, but have they fixed the problem where registration confirmation emails never reached Yahoo mail? I understand the solution is to open a gmail account, but I find it quite ludicrous that I'd have to do that.
Mar 25, 2011 | 1:50 pm
#14
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Apr 15, 2011 | 6:39 am
#15
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Last I heard, the Yahoo delayed/missing confirmation should have not been an issue since Feb 21, 2011.
