Originally Posted by JapanFlyerT (Post 16437251)

I definitely pay with a card for everything over $5. These days it can be faster (if no signature is required) than watching the cashier figure out the change.

Originally Posted by Marathon Man (Post 16432679)

I have been approved for the US Air card and will try it when it arrives. But I have seen things like this before... the AAdvantage mall has rounded up for me many times... usually when it's over the 50 cent mark though.

But one place people could try it is this:

When I need to do my 5 monthly transactions to avoid a checking acct fee at two banks I use, I simply call my cable company (Comcast) and I stay in the automated billing section on my phone. With an ability to enter some things on the phone and press 1 or 2 and the 16 digit card number time and again in the course of a couple of minutes, I can do the five transactions for...

$1.01
$1.02
$1.03
$1.04
$1.05


I am not certain how many times my card might allow before crapping out, but this has been successful month after month for me. I've also used it to generate the 3 transactions needed to get that $50 bonus needed at ING for their online Electric Orange checking accounts. I'm not sure, but one COULD count THAT toward the 'hourly rate' of doing this. AND if one were, say, the stay at home parent or temporarily out of work, etc, then this is bonus income for unpaid time you had anyway. (that is, unless one's action of sitting there doing miles all day was preventing you from changing that diaper or filling out job apps lol)

Now, if some smart cookie were to develop some sort of techy gadget that could generate say a few hundred of these little transactions a day in some automated form, then THAT is something I might even buy AT the likes of the AAdvantage mall! :D (or at http://www.secretflyertalkmileagetec...thatwillruinit)

:)MM