Hi all

I've been in Mypoints for two weeks now and am nearing my first thousand points.

I discovered some interesting tips/ideas which I hope readers will find of use.

First, when you get email informing you about this or that link which will get you points, visit the link and then store the email in a special email folder. Every month or so you can revisit the folder and run through the links and you should be able to pick up points fairly quickly.

The other tip also concerns these emails. Some emails give you an option whereby you can visit the link and you will be credited with the ten or so points. They also give a link which will give you the points anyway without visiting the site.

Following receipt of emails, I visited a couple of sites yesterday and today came back and clicked on the 'no visit' links and was surprised to be awarded points for each of these links as well. It appears that you can click on both the 'link' and 'no link' links and you will get points for each. So by linking to the link link and also linking to the no link links you can get double links points for your linking prowess.

cheers Peter

Woof Woof Woof!

Thanks, that's great info.

I don't get it. I hope I'm just missing something and not being completely stupid. I just checked some emails from the last couple of days and I only a link for "thanks for reading this email and visiting the site". I don't see a link where you don't have to go to the site. Yes, this first link gives you, say 10 or 15 points but you are automaticlly sent to the site. Does anyone have any advice.

birdyy - some emails have it, some don't. The ones which do, have two links - one which takes you to a sponsor, and the other one where you simply decline to go to the sponsor but get points for reading the email. The emails I have received always state that the offer expires on a certain date, sometimes when I have missed the date and tried later it fails, so I don't know about the month after month trick, but I presume ffhound has tested it.

BTW - ffhound, MyPoints has extended the deadline for getting double points for 5 referrals to August 15, so one can get 2000 points for 10 referrals until then. After that it goes down to 100 points per referral (max 10 referrals per month).

[This message has been edited by pgupta011 (edited 08-05-1999).]

Peter....thanks!....I just went back and clicked on all the "no" links and got points at each! Your "every month or so tip" confuses me, though. I clicked on some June emails but they all said "sorry the points are only good every 365 days"

Be sure to read the email carefully before doing this. One time I accidentally clicked on the wrong link in the email, and the next thing I knew, there was a message saying that I'd just been subscribed to Sports Illustrated. I wrote them, and they cancelled it (though I think I still got the extra points ).

Thanks much for the clarification. I too tried some of the old email and an error message came up each time. Something to the effect that this offer is no longer available or you can only earn these points every 365 days. I'll keep trying thought perhaps Peter knows something we don't.

Thanks pgupta011 for explaining that soem emails have a 'no' choice and others do not.

Equally I think you all will find that not all emails have the 365 day limit - some may be once every month - it may depend on the particular provider.

At any rate still keep the old emails. And then on January 1 next year (2000) go and visit all those links. In a very short time you will have accrued a smorgsaboard of points.

BY THE WAY, if anyone out there reading this is not yet a mypoints member I'd be grateful if you could quote me (use pberrett or nberrett) as your referral when you join up. I have only been accruing points for two weeks but have already accrued 980 points. Its a long process to get all the points but now using the tips I've outlined above it will be a lot faster.

One other thing though. I've found a couple of other interesting Mypoints things out.

First when you click on a given link in the email, points will be credited to the person the email was sent to irrespective of whose member key is in the cookie of your browswer. So say my wife received an email at my email address, and it offered points for visiting a given link, if I then click on the link the visit is treated as being a visit from my wife, even though my member key is the active one at present.

Also I also use an older version of Internet Explorer on occasions. Interestingly enough, when I visit a Mypoints site to earn say 10 points, on the older version of Internet explorer I do not get the provider's page and a new page opening up to explain whether I have gotten points or not. Instead I am taken direct to the second box direct. How curious.

cheers Peter