Any Pudding Type Promotions out there?
 

We all remember the Pudding Guy from many years ago...A million miles from collecting pudding UPC codes. Are there any other "collection" types of promotions out there? I haven't seen any in years - did airline shy away from them after this deal?

I think the airline involved was American and I've seen promos on cereal boxes, but that too was many years ago.

Try here: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=717134

Perfect idea...but only for Canadians.
 

That's just the type of promo I'd like to see, but it's for Canadians only.

First you can lay claim to Ryan Reynolds and now this.

Wasn't their something last year where you could buy a bunch of fondue cheese at costco or sams club?

there are always things like the pudding thing but I'm not going to tell :D:D:D:D

Love the contrast between post and sig.

It was the Swiss Knight promotion that ran late last year. It was a really good deal too!

I was kidding.
I knowlingly posted that way. :D

The last one I saw like the pudding thing was when gift cards were hot and you could essentially earn free or near-free miles thru the use of purchasing cards that could be cashed out with a few short steps.

Now they are few and far between if they even exist. Those that do often have high fees and restrtictions not worth doing it for. While some people had great success (self included) some did not.

I know that the AMEX Traveler's Fund card is also going to die soon and I have been loading and unloading it vigorously, seeing as how it's last day to do so will be when the Red Sox clinch the AL EAST (:D end of this month). This gift card enabled one to earn many a Starpoint because an AMEX could load it, thereby creating a $2700+ purchase on your AMEX bill, and that many starpoints in your account by next statement. You could later cash out the TC card but it always was laced with risk and issue. Now that they have discontinued it and are no longer supporting it, I am finding its risk of fast load and unload is gone, but its days are numbered so you wont get much if you still have one. Anyway, I will be looking for something like it. I should be able to load it a few more times before the sad end.

Let's see...

The pudding guy was for Healthy Choice Pudding and it was AA miles. It helped make me a two million miler.

Then the ValueMags deal, then LatinPass, the 1-800 flowers thing, then savings bond flipping, then mortgage payments with money orders from USPS, then the United Chase bank multiple application thingy. Who can forget the USAIR software glitch (12 segments for CP) and the more recent and similar Priority Club glitch? Ah, what a wonderful source FT is for when the Next Big Deal happens. If the OP is thinking just from collecting something, like off food products, how about the 400 coke rewards points for a Sony camcorder or the early in the program DL awards? Current redemption awards are terrible though. Then there was the Wendy cups. Sometimes you blink (or after 4 hours on the Mileage Run forum) and the deal is gone. Sorry if I missed other deals. Usually the dinosaurs realize sooner or later someone is gnawing at their tail and the deals disappear. The objective is to catch (collect?) as many as you can and then keep your mouth shut to keep from ruining it for others.

-outoftown

These opportunities are a quite common in Germany for LH miles. Currently there is an offer that allows you to subscribe to a newspaper for €92 and receive 15,000 miles as a thank you. It's quite easy to get LH miles for less than a cent per mile. Sadly, such offers are pretty rare in the US; the most recent one, I think, was the Goldpoints/Shutterfly deal.

and yet, I've always wondered how YOU AND I find out if everyone is supposed to shut up. :D

I guess ya gotta be very ON and savvy and ready. I have been with several of these. One you mentioned that I loved (and milked muchly) was the Money Orders gig. When the bank in question found out, they made it not possible to earn miles off those purchases alone. One you forgot was the Iceland Air screw up for Sumer Solstice. I think it was like 66cents a flight or something cheap. I didnt go but wow.

Which brings up the long ago traveler checks purchased via credit card deals. I'm sure there are others that we can reminisce about. At the beginning of June, there were 88 cent flights to Peru and this special should run again should one know where to look on FT...but back to the OP's original question...current 'collection' type awards. The Coke points are the only one I can think of that is still current, but so many people cashed out the Delta awards that they increased the redemption amount each time they replenished the awards, so it now takes 4 times the points from when they started in March 2006. I have earned several thousand DL miles and Hilton points so far, but it is not worth it now, unless you can get thousands of coasters from Denny's. I don't know of any other collection method involving awards attached to food purchases except the idine (rewards network), but that requires dining out. I don't know of any that would exceed 20,000 miles or points either, unless you win some contest.

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ok. anything current?

I hear crickets :D

(but am off to Denny's because the one near me has coasters and I had NO idea about that above gig! :D:D:D)

The Denny's coaster thing is limited to 100 points. Read the fine print before you snag too many.