I won't comment on your ability to search for coupons online, but if you cannot find big discounts from ABT, FTD, Omaha Steaks, etc out there you are not looking very hard at all. A two-minute search turned up a 15% ABT discount and dozens of FTD and Omaha deals. New members to E-rewards need to realize that they are NOT getting gift certificates, they are getting coupons with typically a lot of restrictions. The IBM "coupon" is completely worthless.

The Blockbuster deal may be going away as well: the small print on the current deaal (6 movies for $25) says that it expires 12-21-04.

I still don't get why some people on this board are complaining about the rewards on e-Rewards. Sure, FTD and Abt offer discounts online but I have done tons of searching and would appreciate someone showing me where on the Intenet you can get a $25 unrestricted FTD coupon or a $25 off $75 Abt Electronics Coupon. Unless I'm missing something, it doesn't exist outside of e-Rewards. My friend just bought a Canon A75 digital Camera using the e-Rewards $50 off $175 Abt Electronics reward and paid $133 delivered which is incredible. He also gets 3,000 Free Hilton Points through e-Rewards every 3 months. Personally, I like love the 6 free rentals from Blockbuster at the $25 reward level, and if your flying American the 2,500 Advantage miles isn't too bad.

If I am wrong on the FTD and Abt, please post a link to equivilent coupons that I can get for free because I will take as many as I can get.

Sheesh! Somebody teach this guy how to Google!

Here's one for $15 off + free shipping (versus $25 off from e-Rewards).
http://www.computermoneymakers.com/dealsandsteals.htm

Both require a $100 purchase, not $75 as you quoted.

There are also 15% off coupons floating around out there, and if you are spending $150 at ABT, the savings are pretty equivalent:

e-Rewards: $25 off any purchase over $100
savings = $25

free coupon found anywhere: 15% off any order
savings = $22.50

All those hours of work for $2.50....

As far as FTD, there are numerous coupons and deals that pay back 30-50% of the purchase price in rebates, FF miles, etc. If you compare that to a flat $25 gift certificate, they are pretty comparable. I don't think you could send a single daisy using FTD for under $50 anyway...

Again, I like e-Rewards, but I will assert that the "rewards" are only modestly better than what a reasonably-savvy user can find on their own for free. The Hertz coupon actually has negative value, since you need to use a "special higher-priced rate code" to get the free day.

I finally received 2500 miles on AA from eRewards today. The flight that earned the bonus miles was in May.


Jay

Ok. So I have way to much fake $$ in my ERewards account. I have submitted and got HHonors in 2 days. I would do AA 2500, but am not flying for a couple months, and will have more than enough...

Question is this.. Other than Hilton, what does everyone else do when they are not flying.. Hilton is only every 90 days, which means I am getting the $$$ faster than I can spend it... Is there a limit on the number of AA I can do? Or do I just need to book the same number of R/T
s from AA.com?