This is indeed considered child abuse in 46 states across America. :td:

Welcome to FlyerTalk, flyingbee!

For more ideas on earning AA points, see the AA forum. Credit cards, hotels, BA flights -- as you have learned from experience with your "miles legacy," once every three years isn't too much. And who knows, maybe in ten or twenty years (if circumstances don't change), you'll have a useable flight!

But I suspect you'll figure out how to top off and use up the account well before then. ;)

I'm not absolutely positive it pays miles. I just passed on what someone else in another forum said so if you read that fatwallet link you know everything I do. I just referred to it instead of posting a link to it origonally because of the lack of proof.

nah, that would only be true if you were a NY fan. We have no beef with SF Giants!

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welcome!

how many AA miles have you got? They are considered by manay here to be the best for redemption and you can earn them thru many promos and other means found in this site. Tell us your needs and numbers and we may be able to at least stear you in the right direction...
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Done That!
 

I enrolled my son on his first paid flight when he was two. He is now 11 an has upgraded a few times and had several freebies (the only way to go when you have only one income). His last paid flight was probably when he was 4. He gets all of our grocery miles. Even though our Dominicks Card has our names on them, when I signed up I used his Mileage Plus number. No problem, all the miles go to him. I also use his Mileage Plus Number whenever I get a chance and that includes the Mileage Plus Mall. Christmas alone gets him several thousand miles (love those 20 miles per dollar spent stores)! I also sign him up for the extra freebies like the Sprint E-mail offer, United Cruise email offer etc. All these add up quickly. Right now he actually has more miles than me.

I try to focus miles into the kids accounts rather than the parents whenever there is a choice believing they will reach million mile status and benefit from it longer than us.

...that's if you (A) don't mind waiting for the often lengthy post waiting time for MALL miles from United and (B) that they actually DO post with out error!

I have never had a good experience with their mall, until I have had to make sereval inquiries on my missing miles and wait more than double the time. If you are getting them, I consider you lucky! Keep it up.
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I've never had a problem with Mileage Mall Miles. As a matter of fact, they usually post within 30 days. Some other promotions for freebie miles I;ve waited for up to 90 days. But I figure the wait is worth it since they are free. The only time I've really had problems is when I switched to Sprint Long Distance. It took over 8 months to get everything straightened out. But again, 15,000 miles were worth the wait.

free is fine... you are correct on that one. BUT I have waited way too long on nearly everything I ever got from the mall miles-wise and sprint was one of the worst. No, wait, I recently PLANNED to get miles for printer ink purchases made and I needed about 300 miles within 3 months in order to get them in time to later call up 331 days in advance to get a certain award ticket. Turns out that they took 4 months to come and yes, I did miss the boat on my ticket! It sucked. I had GIVEN IT TIME well beyond the 8 weeks it promisses and it STILL screwed me up.

When you are in NEED of those miles and you try to plan for them, that's when you will remember this post. I would now only rely on idine posts to come in when promissed, but never their mall. And good luck with trying to find the person who makes decisions about posting those miles. You get into a department battle where you are stuck in the middle and still have no miles while they figure out who owes who and when.

no good! Avoid the MP mall!

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For AA I have posted the Kellogg's miles to my kids accounts
 

The kids were eating the cerail and the waffles, so I sent the 500 miles to each kid about once every six months. That way I figure I have 3 years. Also, when the kids are under 2 I always buy tickets for them so that they start the account but it costs us very little (only 50 % of the regular price)