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eMiles Shutting Down
Just received this email... not cool that they only gave one week notice then again they could have just turned off the lights and left in the middle of the night.
Dear Member, We wanted to reach-out with an important update about the eMiles program and your membership. We greatly appreciate your support and participation in eMiles, as well as the millions of other members over the years, but sadly we need to communicate that the eMiles program will soon be coming to a close. We will provide additional updates along the way, but wanted to inform you of a couple of key dates in advance:
Thank you for a being an integral part of our community. - Your friends at eMiles |
It was mentioned sometime back in the master E-miles thread that they where shutting down. I had 403 points and couldn't find anything to redeem them, only available where minimum of 500 for UA miles. I did a few surveys and in less than 30 minutes I had 517, immediately cashed them in and now I'm left with 17 E-Miles, which will eventually transfer to E-rewards.
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The emiles website had all earning opportunities removed awhile ago, right after they announced the shut down.
Today's email was identical to the previous one they sent out, about a month ago. |
No great loss. It's been going downhill for years.
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Originally Posted by arollins
(Post 29840800)
It was mentioned sometime back in the master E-miles thread that they where shutting down. I had 403 points and couldn't find anything to redeem them, only available where minimum of 500 for UA miles. I did a few surveys and in less than 30 minutes I had 517, immediately cashed them in and now I'm left with 17 E-Miles, which will eventually transfer to E-rewards.
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Never mind...I just found it in the FAQ, although these two accounts aren't connected that I'm aware of. Will they just link them by email address? Thanks, if anyone knows the answer!
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Sounds like it. The email I got goes on to say:
IMPORTANT NOTE: As an existing member of the e-Rewards Opinion Panel (our sister company), any eMiles Points that you have not redeemed by June 15, 2018 will be loaded into your e-Rewards account (associated with this e-mail address) on or before June 29, 2018, in the amount of $0.05 in e-Rewards Currency, for each remaining eMiles Point. |
Unable to login, reset password still cannot login.
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The redemption I've made for Amazon gift card had not been fullfiled and the help line does not respond.
Might be safer just to let the points to transfer to e-rewards. |
Not surprised. Wasn't too impressed with them.
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Useless program. Good riddance.
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Oh well
I stopped using the both of them years ago after e-rewards would waste my time repeatedly. After answering several hundred questions over 30 minutes, in the final demographic questions I would answer "caucasian" or "male" and the survey bot would respond, "We have already met enough responses from your demographic group, so no points for you."
It's probably better that I found better uses for my time than making 25 cents an hour filling out surveys. |
i just went to the emiles.com.
was easily able to log in and transfer my remaining points to amazon gc's will see whether they actually arrive or not! |
I learned a long time ago to always respond hispanic female - now I rarely get kicked out of surveys. Caucasian males are of no import to marketers anymore.
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Originally Posted by aspidites
(Post 29866282)
I learned a long time ago to always respond hispanic female - now I rarely get kicked out of surveys. Caucasian males are of no import to marketers anymore.
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Can someone answer how long it takes to get the Amazon gc? I requested on 6/7 and says 5 days, but nothing yet. I requested Starbucks gc at the same time, and I think it also said 5 days, and it was available 6/12.
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Originally Posted by pakle
(Post 29866954)
Can someone answer how long it takes to get the Amazon gc? I requested on 6/7 and says 5 days, but nothing yet. I requested Starbucks gc at the same time, and I think it also said 5 days, and it was available 6/12.
It told me that it would take 45 days. Mike |
Originally Posted by mikeef
(Post 29867241)
I redeemed mine for Hilton and will consider it an unexpected bonus if they actually show up.
It told me that it would take 45 days. Mike United miles - mixed results. If successful, takes 5 days, or will show FAILED. Starbucks gc - received successfully in 5 days Amazon gc - received successfully in 7 days (updated) So if I had to redeem e-miles for United as my only option, I would open the E-rewards account and get the 1000 e-miles pts converted to $50 e-rewards which can be redeemed for 1000 United miles, same as e-miles, and hope for better customer service that e-miles. |
I hope somebody out there gets mad enough to file a class action lawsuit against this fraud of a company.
It seems like a huge part of their business strategy revolves around the fact that they can scam thousands of people out of ten or twenty bucks worth of awards and no single individual will get pissed off enough about it to sue. |
Originally Posted by pakle
(Post 29866954)
Can someone answer how long it takes to get the Amazon gc? I requested on 6/7 and says 5 days, but nothing yet. I requested Starbucks gc at the same time, and I think it also said 5 days, and it was available 6/12.
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Originally Posted by pakle
(Post 29867676)
Family members all cashed out on the same day 6/7. One got United miles credited on 6/12, and the 2 others got "FAILED" message for United miles redemption (no reason given). United miles were the only redemption option and both had redeemed successfully previously so the MP # is correct. Contacted customer service, of course no response. So the data points for us are:
United miles - mixed results. If successful, takes 5 days, or will show FAILED (Redeposit back to e-miles account in ~11 days) Starbucks gc - received successfully in 5 days Amazon gc - received successfully in 7 days (updated) So if I had to redeem e-miles for United as my only option, I would open the E-rewards account and get the 1000 e-miles pts converted to $50 e-rewards which can be redeemed for 1000 United miles, same as e-miles, and hope for better customer service that e-miles. |
Originally Posted by MD/DC Flyer
(Post 29854837)
The redemption I've made for Amazon gift card had not been fullfiled and the help line does not respond.
Might be safer just to let the points to transfer to e-rewards. |
Originally Posted by pakle
(Post 29867676)
Family members all cashed out on the same day 6/7. One got United miles credited on 6/12, and the 2 others got "FAILED" message for United miles redemption (no reason given). United miles were the only redemption option and both had redeemed successfully previously so the MP # is correct. Contacted customer service, of course no response. So the data points for us are:
United miles - mixed results. If successful, takes 5 days, or will show FAILED (Redeposit back to e-miles account in ~11 days) Starbucks gc - received successfully in 5 days Amazon gc - received successfully in 7 days (updated) So if I had to redeem e-miles for United as my only option, I would open the E-rewards account and get the 1000 e-miles pts converted to $50 e-rewards which can be redeemed for 1000 United miles, same as e-miles, and hope for better customer service that e-miles. |
Originally Posted by pinniped
(Post 29867722)
I hope somebody out there gets mad enough to file a class action lawsuit
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Originally Posted by mahasamatman
(Post 29876728)
Why don't you? You seem to care about it a lot more than most people.
So I'll just sit here and derive a small amount of pleasure that this entire scam seems to be cratering for good. |
Originally Posted by pinniped
(Post 29878796)
Because the magnitude of my damages is about five bucks. I'm mad enough to rant about it on an anonymous Internet forum, but not mad enough to really do anything about it.
So I'll just sit here and derive a small amount of pleasure that this entire scam seems to be cratering for good. |
I can still log into my account and my points are still there. Still waiting for the transfer over to E-Rewards.
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Originally Posted by uxb
(Post 29889982)
You could always sue in small claims court and hope for a request to appear on "The People's Court." I would love to see one of these E-miles representatives appear on broadcast TV.
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Originally Posted by mahasamatman
(Post 29929267)
What makes you think they would agree to arbitration?
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Originally Posted by uxb
(Post 29929611)
Because they are cheap.
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Originally Posted by mahasamatman
(Post 29931306)
But they have absolutely nothing to gain and everything to lose. I suspect any small claims action would be considered frivolous.
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No Great Loss
I used to find it easy to redeem mileage or HH point rewards but started getting error messages last year that this program or that program were invalid. I do remember way back when that I originally signed up through a particular airline. When I would communicate with their customer service, I was asked to list my programs and account numbers but it never resolved.
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My remaining points got deducted from E-Miles but not yet deposited in E-Rewards yet. |
My emiles were transferred to my e-rewards account today. Got $15.
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Originally Posted by linsj
(Post 29964348)
My emiles were transferred to my e-rewards account today. Got $15.
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I still haven't received my E-miles xfer despite having my account zeroed out.
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I checked my E-rewards account yesterday and they rounded up $48.45 to $50 for me and $60.7 to $70 for a relative (posted yesterday)!
I redeemed the $50 for 1000 United MP miles last night and it posted this morning! I had tried to redeem to United when it was still in E-miles but it failed and re-deposited the money back to the e-miles account, luckily. So that's why the dollars got transferred to E-rewards, and I'm pleased to see the redemption worked for E-rewards. |
Hm... still waiting for transfer to come through... anyone else still waiting?
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Originally Posted by pointshogger
(Post 29977582)
Hm... still waiting for transfer to come through... anyone else still waiting?
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Originally Posted by uxb
(Post 29979203)
I'm still waiting.
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