You should have taken the US miles.

my mother did the US miles 100 and got them many weeks later than we figured they would come in. I took the AA miles and they took longer. We did the survey the same day and she used the US ones to help toward some magazine purchase on milepoint. Milepoint, by the way, is powered by points.com and they are weird because in two accounts our family has, the mags have started to come but they have yet to deduct the miles from both their system where you load which accounts to take them from, and from the airlines! Maybe we should just take those airlines out and see if they ever try to get them.

Anyway, my opinion of points.com has been noted in other threads for a long time now. I personally will let my pointsplus account fall off without ever renewing it, and will not rely on the service again. I transferred over the frontier miles (thanks to that thread from Dhacker) and some other things I cleaned out, but they are useless to me now and I do not have the ebay anything points going anymore either. That is at zero and I do not have asia miles.

I am concentraing on earing in 3 main airlines now:

United, NWA and AA. I have a credit card for each and you can transfer miles between accounts on NWA (powered by points.com, so they still getcha) and also on United (powered by another marketer but in a similar way.fee structure) and so I am happy with that. Mother and wife and I have used up ALL US Air miles. Mom only has like 66 of them left so if she gets a magazine with NWA or DL miles on milepoint, then those will get used up first in the purchase.

We have no other things that can be used on Points.com so I am done with them now. I recommend others be done with them too, but that's just me. They are too slow to post, the exchange rates stink, and now their rates will go up. Lose 'em!

MM

I emailed them about a week ago regarding a "rumor" that the fees may change. Suzanne from Customer Support of Points.com indicated today so has not heard of any increase in fees for April 2005. (for what thats worth). She did indicate that if I did not rene my pointsplus membership, I could continue to do exchanges at $9.95 per exchange.

I believe FT, before her canned response, but thought I'd pass it on to all>

Maybe it is all an April Fool's trick or a rumor to get everyone to renew their service. I renewed my accounts that I take care of for 2200 Ebay points.

KT

Actually, their renewal rate is at US$29.95 per year, however, their renewal bonus substantially drecreses earlier this year. Now you only get like 625 ebay points for renewing, while it was 2250 last summer. I think I might also liquidate my ebay points now and transfer all of them to Asia Miles for safe haven in case they do a rate increase.

I received my complimentary Pointsplus membership from the Fairmont. If I had to pay, eBay anything points seems like the best offer.

Umm, having some problems transferring points tonight. Ebay for some reason didn't authorize my transfer. Might have to call in tomorrow.

It has been delayed and seems like this will happen sometimes next week.

Any update on this matter?

I too am having a problem with transferring the eBay points. Initiated the transfer last week. They wrote back to say the email, name and account number had to match. I wrote back that it does exactly and have not heard anything yet. It seems there is a problem between points.com and eBay verifying these currently.

I am glad my wife and I "renewed our renewals" last year (mainly to get the bonus Anythingpoints) so we should be good until next year. I wonder whether our membership will be good until 2007 if we renew again ...

Is this true? I just tried to find a "renew" button on my account and I can't seem to find any. Maybe it's because I have already renewed until 2006.

However, if a renewal only nets 625 Ebay anythingpoints, for the same USD29.95 I think we all should just open a new account which will net 2,500 Ebay anythingpoints (I checked this as of this morning).

I really don't understand why they are doing this as I am sure the administrative cost for opening new accounts is higher for points.com as compared to renewals. With such a disparity in bonus points, what's stopping current customers (if they know about this disparity) from opening new accounts instead of renewing?

Where did you transfer them into? I have a lot of them and want to get the best value I can from the transfer.

Be very careful about opening a new account. I can tell you from personal experience that once an affinity account is associated with a particular points.com account, for all eternity it can NEVER be associated with any other points.com account. They say this is for "security reasons" and believe me, I have taken it to the mat with them and they claim there is absolutely no way to manually override this.

For example, say you have points.com account A and you have AsiaMiles account X. You cannot open points.com account B and associate it to AsiaMiles account X. No matter if you either (i) remove AsiaMiles account X from the profile of points.com account A -or- (ii) completely cancel points.com account A.

So, you would be left with orphan miles in AsiaMiles account X (unless well planned).

Unless you are willing to open *all new* affinity accounts, do not count on the strategy of just opening a "new" points.com account.

Depending on what you want to redeem for, AsiaMiles would be touted by manhy aroudn here as the prime candidate. I can't begin to say how much the EBAP>AsiaMiles conversion possibility has changed my life! Really!Hawaiian Air is also not bad if you live on the US west coast and travel frequently to Hawaii.