Catman: Don't think I've *ever* seen you flame anyone. At least not in the 12 months since I've been here.

I'm not a frequent flyer so have to get my miles some other way, and in fact have only been collecting them since June 1999. The Airline Mileage Workshop (which I stumbled onto some way I don't remember now) was what made me aware of the opportunities and I am forever grateful - THANK YOU MileageAddict. Also, lots of my miles have come from posts on this board - THANK YOU everyone. Hoping some day to be the first to discover an opportunity and return all the favors.

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Ingrid

Well, in keeping with the spirit of thankfulness that this thread has taken:

I've said it before, but not often enough, THANK YOU everyone who post here regularly and share your wealth of knowledge and creativity so that we may all increase our flight and "pudding" miles, as well as get better deals, upgraded seats and rooms, and improved travel services in general.

This site is great!! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

honu

If I didn't say it before I took down my profinity.com becuase it kept crashing my computer. It was a noble attempt but I can't restart my computer every five minutes.

On other topics: Helping each other. That is the purpose of this board, for people like Honu and wannago to get information and become better at getting frequent flyer miles.

MarkB: my namesake sort of, thank you for the nice message. I try not to flame anybody.

Just to let you all know I received the following e-mail from Profinity today :


Dear Member,

We are sorry to say that we are unable to fulfill your request for frequent flyer miles. Our ability to offer frequent flyer miles has been eroded because of exclusionary agreements American Airlines & Delta Airlines have established with a competitor of Profinity.com. We are currently trying to partner with other airlines so that we can provide miles as Profinity Rewards.

To help compensate for this problem, we have credited an additional 2000 points to your account and have removed your request for miles so that you can collect another reward from the existing catalog (all remaining rewards ARE available).

Again, we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused and we look forward to offering you more great rewards in the future.

If you have any questions regarding this issue, please contact us as [email protected].

Sincerely,
Profinity Reward Services


I'm pretty peed at this. I want SkyMiles!!!

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Mark
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Dr Martin Luther King Jr



[This message has been edited by MarkB (edited 01-20-2000).]

MarkB,

I got the same email. They did promptly put the points back into my account. Hmmm....do I cash them out for a Barnes and Noble certificate or hold on to them for a while in case they develop a relationship with an airline?

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Addicted to airline miles? Check out: The Airline Mileage Workshop

I got to about 1200 miles on Profinity, and realized that something just didn't feel right.
Their software continually crashed my system and always gave me the "this is not freeware" bs.
I'm glad I didn't get my hopes up too high, and feel bad for you guys that got screwed.
These guys will all eventually learn that the word goes out when you lie about your product and it's capabilities.
Cheers.

Assuming Profinity's story is correct, then surely Delta and American should not have allowed Profinity to offer their miles if there was a possibility they would withdraw the opportunity. Or at least they should have permitted existing applicants to be credited with their miles.

I think I can feel an e-mail to Leo Mullin coming on.

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Mark
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Dr Martin Luther King Jr

Anything new here with anyone?

I'd emailed them over not receiving any requested miles, 2x- no response!

I just ran the profinity program yesterday and to my surprise my once nearly 80,000 pts was somehow down to just over 40000pts!!!

I've emailed them again to try and get some idea of whats going on!

Has anyone ever received anything from them?

I checked profinity.com today and there was no place to log in and no points indicator. It now looks a little like Yahoo without the search capablility. Strange...

I checked profinity.com today and there was no place to log in and no points indicator. It now looks a little like Yahoo without the search capablility. Strange...

I gave up on them when their airline partner rewards were deleted from their website. Cashed in my points for Amazon gift certificate which I received a few weeks later.

Deleted the bookmark after that, never bothered to go back.

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Addicted to airline miles? Check out: The Airline Mileage Workshop

Smart move David! I've still heard nothing back from them! A total loss? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

Thought I'd bring this thread forward in view of the current Greenpoints debacle involving immediate doubling of required SH/Greenpoints for FF awards! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/002798.html

I guess it could actually have been worse! Sadly! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

[This message has been edited by doc (edited 05-25-2000).]

I've never even gotten the "standard" email noted above- nothing, nada! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

I've logged about 82,000 points and it seems that now, after all this time, I can't even get a little cert for Blockbuster for my son or for Barnes and Noble for my wife! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

Has anyone been able to cash out with anything from profinity recently? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/eek.gif

Anyone? Anything? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

Seems the trick with these programs is to cash out quickly, literally ASAP, before the .... walls come caving in! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif