The Most Embarassing Thing I've Ever Done to Get Miles
Jul 27, 2000, 6:35 pm
#136
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Palm Springs, Ca. 92262, usa
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What is the Buick promo?
Jul 27, 2000, 8:56 pm
#137
Join Date: Jan 1999
Posts: 409
I buy hundreds of dollars worth of Canadian lottery tickets for European relatives each month using my Diners card. Do you know how much of a LOSER I feel like when I ask for a hundred tickets and then pay for them with a credit card?? (what's that condescending look - I'll get rich one day by doing this, just you wait and see!).
Fortunately, I now buy all those tickets from one particular gas station convenience store where they know that I buy them on behalf of my relatives so I can get the ff miles. In fact, now when I walk in I don't even have to say a word - I just smile and they say just a moment while someone goes to the back room to get a stack of tickets for me.
I do have my pride, but geez those are a lot of miles earned over a year...
Fortunately, I now buy all those tickets from one particular gas station convenience store where they know that I buy them on behalf of my relatives so I can get the ff miles. In fact, now when I walk in I don't even have to say a word - I just smile and they say just a moment while someone goes to the back room to get a stack of tickets for me.
I do have my pride, but geez those are a lot of miles earned over a year...
Jul 27, 2000, 9:24 pm
#138
Join Date: Jun 2000
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Aug 13, 2000, 7:02 pm
#139
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davidlee,
The Buick promo was (I don't think it's "is" any more, though they may have revived it) an offer where you could get (in my case, there may have been variations) 5,000 Delta miles for test-driving a particular model of Buick about a year ago. Buick mailed you a letter with a postcard, the dealer stamped the card, you sent it in, the miles showed up. I don't know how they picked people to get the offer.
The Buick promo was (I don't think it's "is" any more, though they may have revived it) an offer where you could get (in my case, there may have been variations) 5,000 Delta miles for test-driving a particular model of Buick about a year ago. Buick mailed you a letter with a postcard, the dealer stamped the card, you sent it in, the miles showed up. I don't know how they picked people to get the offer.
Aug 14, 2000, 5:13 pm
#140
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Columbia, SC
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Looks like the Buick promo right now is for a Tiger Woods hat ;( No miles...
Aug 15, 2000, 11:58 pm
#141
Join Date: May 2000
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Akelly, Rudi,
My wife KNOWS I'm crazy. Who else would spend over 23 years umpiring baseball and taking all that abuse (not to mention the crazy things we do for miles/status)?
My wife KNOWS I'm crazy. Who else would spend over 23 years umpiring baseball and taking all that abuse (not to mention the crazy things we do for miles/status)?
Aug 16, 2000, 2:56 am
#142
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Embarassing .... no. Risky .... YES! 
A company called Travelex offered double Qantas points for every $A you spent buying or cashing traveller checks for a 1 month period. It was aimed at people taking a few £100 to Europe etc.
I had some spare money around earning 3%pa or whatever in the bank, so I bought $US20,000 in T/C which cost me then about $A30,000. Got 60,000 QF points.
Sweated for next few weeks until $A slowly improved on exhange rate against $US. Travelex "builds" about 3-4% margin into their "spread" between buying and selling.
Sweated some more. $A sneaks up about 5% in that time. Take the T/C, still in original folder and have them give me $A back. Got another 60,000+ miles AND made some decent change on the deal too, as I was by then well ahead of the "Travelex" spread.
Now if the $A had kept going DOWN, like it has recently it was a whole different ball game!
120,000+ QF points gave me over three "Around Australia" trips in Business Class all the way. (No 1st domestically).
Those fights are THE FF bargain in Australia BTW. They allow 11,000 Kms WHEREVER you want to go on QF, taking up to a year. Be same sort of deal as UA allowing you to fly 11,000 kms right around USA in 1st - your choice of routes and days. As long as you do not transit your original destination they are valid. Ansett also offers same deal, same points.
A company called Travelex offered double Qantas points for every $A you spent buying or cashing traveller checks for a 1 month period. It was aimed at people taking a few £100 to Europe etc.
I had some spare money around earning 3%pa or whatever in the bank, so I bought $US20,000 in T/C which cost me then about $A30,000. Got 60,000 QF points.
Sweated for next few weeks until $A slowly improved on exhange rate against $US. Travelex "builds" about 3-4% margin into their "spread" between buying and selling.
Sweated some more. $A sneaks up about 5% in that time. Take the T/C, still in original folder and have them give me $A back. Got another 60,000+ miles AND made some decent change on the deal too, as I was by then well ahead of the "Travelex" spread.
Now if the $A had kept going DOWN, like it has recently it was a whole different ball game!
120,000+ QF points gave me over three "Around Australia" trips in Business Class all the way. (No 1st domestically).
Those fights are THE FF bargain in Australia BTW. They allow 11,000 Kms WHEREVER you want to go on QF, taking up to a year. Be same sort of deal as UA allowing you to fly 11,000 kms right around USA in 1st - your choice of routes and days. As long as you do not transit your original destination they are valid. Ansett also offers same deal, same points.
Jun 26, 2019, 11:22 am
#143
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: san francisco, ca usa
Posts: 124
Whatever happened to coupon connection?
I can’t seem to find it anymore. I saw some chatter that it got discontinued but then I thought it was reestablish
Jun 26, 2019, 1:45 pm
#144
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Jun 26, 2019, 2:26 pm
#145
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Carol
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Jun 26, 2019, 4:06 pm
#146
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As our Community Director has answered the question, I'm going to close this 19 year old thread.
Thank you,
MileageAddict
Thank you,
MileageAddict