My best airmiles deal
 

What is your best airmile deal?

Mine is:

From beyond.com, I purchased Wordlbook 1999 (free after $45 rebate), Expedia Streets/Trip Planner (free after $35 rebate) and Corel Gallery Magic 65k (free after $20 rebate). I paid $11.70 for taxes, shipping, and handling for these name-brand software. Beyond.com gave me 500 clickmiles and ClickRewards gave me 500 holiday bonus miles.

I then purchased from Beyond.com Encarta Encyclopedia 99 (free after $35 rebate), Corel Printhouse Magic (free after $30 rebate), Vorton Financial Tools (free after $19.95 rebate) and Card Creator (free after $19.95 rebate). I paid $8.99 taxes, shipping, and handling for 200 miles and all this great software!

From ClubComputer I got $495 Goldmine a contact manager program I've been waiting to go on sale for years for $96.58 (including shipping, taxes, and the $39.95 (would have been $49.95 if not for milenet) annual fee). For this purchase, they ClubComputer gave me 1,156 clickmiles.

I purchased $250 of office products from Office Max for supposedly $107.15 if I ever get the rebate check of $112.65. Getting email response from these guys is like pulling teeth. I had to wait 6 weeks and many emails to get my 283 clickmiles posted. I had to email them about being charged $4 more than what prices on website said and also $25.75 on their 155% price guarantee. Hopefully, they will get these bugs worked out so that it is worth the hassle to shop there.

I purchased books at a discount from Barnes and Noble which did super great response. With all of these purchases I was able to reach the 3rd tier of the ClickRewards Holiday bonus and was awarded 4,500 bonus miles for making the purchases listed above!

What is your best airmiles deal?

How do I get on the Webflyer Advisory Council?

Looks like you paid about 3.7 cents per mile not counting what you paid for the B & N books. If you factor the books in, you paid more than the above 3.7 cents/mile.

You need to ask Catman or Rudi about getting on the advisory board.

Also, welcome aboard.

...or if not that, at least the Clickrewards Advertising Committee :-)

A long time ago I got 5000 BA miles for joining their FF program - this was an offer I got through Diners Club. And many years ago I got 5000 BA miles for test driving a Jaguar (BA had a similar promotion for Canadian residents last year).

Looks like pgupta011 paid nothing for 10,000 miles. At 3.7 cents/mile, a 25,000 mile r/t ticket would cost $925.

Looks like pgupta011 paid nothing for 10,000 miles. At 3.7 cents/mile, a 25,000 mile r/t ticket would cost $925.

The 3.7cents/mile point makes sence only when you are applying it to spending money for nothing. All said and done it was actually closer to 5cents/mile; I spent $453.64 for items retailing over $1,200.00. There was no better price for the books anywhere on the internet and Barnes and Noble and ClickRewards wanted to give me free airmiles for buying the books I wanted at the cheapest price available? Great deal. Couldn't get a better price on the software anywhere, and they wanted to throw in free airmiles? I can use my $750cash savings on flights or whatever I want. JawsII, are you actually spending even one penny on something you don't want for an airmile? Or are you spending even one penny more on something you do want to get an airmile? I am not that needy for airmiles yet. . . I always search for the best buy cash wise and take the airmiles as freebies.

Abiding... nice job on racking up those miles. I am NOT on the FLyerTalk Advisory Committee (Don't know if Rudi is.) You can click on the advisory line on the front page of WebFlyer and get information on joining.

I think when I joined COntinental I got 5000 mile signup bonus. Then with Westin for the past two years I got 5000 westin points and 2500 miles for being "a loyal customer."

You can do the Math, JAWS... you're the numbers expert. I'm better with words, not
numbers.

Not as great as some of you but I'm happy with the bonuses! CATMAN

Every person who signs up for UA's First Card that you refer you get 5000 miles. I got 20000 last month.

In answering one post remembered something better: the 5K bonus for the SkyMiles subscription from Delta airlines.

Nice to boost the account since I don't fly Delta much. CATMAN

Best airmile deal has to be flying:

A recent BOS-LAX (via SJO) netted 14K miles for $310, making it 2.2 cents per mile.

If one had being a PremEx or 1K member, that number would have dropped to 1.67 cents per mile.

SJO? Or was it SJC?

2.2 cents per mile is not cheap. Airlines sell miles for 2 cents per mile.

Oops, that was suppose to be SJC.

It is true that airlines sell one mile for about $0.02. However, even if one can buy miles at that rate, miles would be all one is buying. One is buying essentially the equivalent of a free ticket, upgrade, etc, without getting the additional benefits of miles. In the case of this thread, we are discussing buying something of value, be it a trip, books, software, etc, and getting additional value (miles). Therefore, we are comparing/using two very different evaluation schemes.

2.2 cents per mile should be considered fairly cheap, but I am sure someone will come up with an even lower figure!

Abiding,

I'm impressed and proud of you! Way to go. Mileage addiction is a wonderful thing....

Well done Abiding. Had you paid .037/mile *just* for mileage, we'd all chide you. The key to purchases is that you are going to buy the dang things anyway so why not get the *best* deal and then have a few miles too?

BTW -- Goldmine is the best (I'm a GM reseller and slightly biased)!!