To click, or not to click ...
 

First off, much thanks to everyone on this board for providing links to sites where you can earn miles (webmiles, greenpoints, milesource, etc...)

My question to you all is this:

With all these programs, (and new ones appearing frequently), which ones do most of you visit on a DAILY basis?

I am assuming, of course, that most of you are gainfully employed and do not have an entire day to visit every site that has been mentioned on this board. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

I am interested in many of the sites mentioned in this board, but am looking at ways to maximize my time spent visiting them.

Put another way: Which sites give you the most "bang for your buck" ?

Any comments would be greatly appreciated...

Bean

for months now (last time on april-1 because a fellow flyertalker asked me to visit it) I don't enter S.P.A.M. at all and I never clicked on any (conga-) promotion.

If you are looking for stricly Mileage Related posts. Stick with Buzz, General Travel Talk, and maybe Only Randy Petersen.

I visit the CO site regularly and the above three topic sites.

Like Rudi, I do not enter SPAM at all and browse through OMNI when I have time. Lately I have begun to ignore In the News. I have been finding less and less there of interest to me.

It really depends on time. I'll generally just scan through the topics in The Buzz, FlyerTalk Community, General Travel Talk and Omni and if I have the time, I'll peruse Trip Reports. I almost always go to where I get my travel points, that being..Continental, Hyatt, Starwood and sometimes UA. I only rarely, check out some of the others, and never really look at SPAM, Coupon Connection etc.

[This message has been edited by mauld (edited 08-22-2000).]

I am not a frewuent flyer--just a wannabe---I also am in search for the bang for my buck,too.I like to lookat www.rewardslookup.com--seems to be up to date and gives cuurent specials of the sites.Personally I like clickrewards and greenpoints,but as I said I am a novice

Milesource about 25 miles a day < 2 min.
Freeairmiles 90-100 miles a day ~ 15 min
Mypoints ~ 600 miles/week ~ 8 min/day
Milespree 72 miles/day ~ 4 min
(if you have a fast connection)

When it comes time to purchase online, check
http://www.valueconsumer.com/Search.cfm

In terms of clicks, I think that MyPoints is the among the best. You can get a modest amount of points without spending much time. Unfortunately the AA mileage option is no longer there, but you can get AA tickets or Alaska miles (the payoff for Alaska miles is lower than what is was for AA). Their customer service is not too good though and people have had problems with them in the past. Also there is a question about their long term financial viablity.

I know a lot of people who have had major problems with Mypoints lately. (points not posting, points deducted, etc.)

My favorites right now are Freeride (lots of points available right now. Keep the 'Magic Bus' running and you can get a $25 AA GC in less than 2 weeks) and Freeairmiles (which seem to accumulate nicely). I also like Memolink (though the only travel prize is Vanguard Air) and Powerdime (takes a while to get a WebCertificate, but good customer service and a pleasantly quirky personality)

Slow accumultors, but requiring little daily time: Trocamania (survey question, and briefly look down to see if any new click-throughs, about a minute total), Etour (more to find interesting sites than rewards)

I'm between projects at work right now, and do have quite a bit of downtime. So I've been doing Altavista for the Clickmiles. But will probably stop there when things get busy here again.

Involved in waaay to many rewards programs, but wanting a guilt-free vacation.....

spend most of my free time on flyertalk already, no time left to click others... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif
but i have been gaining invaluable knowledge about travel, and my english has improved considerably from reading all the well written posts here...
mileless, but priceless! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

belle .. your English is great! What is your mother tongue?

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~ Glen ~

thanks OZ, you are kind...but there are some very high standard of writing here that sometimes make me feel unworthy... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

well, mother tonque is mandarin plus three different dialects of chinese... was born and raised in indonesia... but educated in malaysia and canada, now am proud american for the rest of my life http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by belle3388 (edited 08-25-2000).]

I go to greenpoints at least 3-4 days a week. I use the today's active topics mainly on FT when I am home because I can ususally make time late at night to scan all the topics. On the road I tend just to visit buzz, DL, Starwood, Hilton threads. There are a lot of mileage earning offers in Spam that I really dig, but a lot of junk too...

Hey belle, my Mandarin, Malay and Indonesian written and spoken language skills could be outlined on the head of a pin! What a wonderful cultural background.

I am studying Canadian at night school. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

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~ Glen ~

I use FreeAirmiles.com and Milespree.com on a daily bases. I check Trocomania.com and Milesource.com a few times a week. Once or twice a week I check payyobillz for more ways to earn Mypoints and finally I check out Greenpoints as well.

The only problem I can see is when I will cash in all those miles..I will have to use some friends over there