Question - If I have an Am Ex card registered to the AA Idine site, and then add this same card to the Priority Club Idine site, will I get miles/points twice??

How does this work?

Nevermind, I guess I can't add the same credit card to more than one Idine program. I thought I had the same Am Ex registered for both already, but turns out one ended in 008 and the other 003 and it confused me.

Sorry for wasting your time!

It won't let you register a card on more than one iDine sub-site (unless some smart person has come up with a work-around).

you can register the jetblue amex card on any of the idine account and you will get 2 points for jetblue and the qualified amount for you selected airline.

same goes for any other credit card associated with a FF program. I use my starwood amex.

with your starwood card you are getting 1 starpoint per dine. with jetblue they give 2 points at restaurants.

In DFW (my location) and SAT (where hull22 is from) JetBlue points are as valuable as... well... nothing. They don't fly here, so they could give 5 or 10 points and it wouldn't matter. But 2 is nice if you can use it.

When I got my Priority Club Visa card, I tried to sign it up under AA Rewards Network, but it was already (automatically) signed up under Priority Club RN! Oops!

Besides which, the original topic of this thread was something completely different -- the OP erroneously believed that one can register the SAME credit card for TWO or more RN accounts at the same time, then realized that it isn't possible. (I know it isn't possible from accidentally trying to do that. )

Anyhow, regarding the drifting off-topic portion of this thread: the blather about 2 jetblue points vs. 1 of something else -- well, points from different programs have different values anyhow, even if you try to pin a monetary value on them. The Hilton HHonors Amex, for example, gives you FIVE HHonors points per dollar on restaurant (and other "everyday" type purchases, e.g., grocery stores, gas stations, etc., vs. the "normal" earning of 3 HHonors points/dollar). But HHonors points aren't necessarily equal in value to points in other programs. Still, the 5 HH points/dollar is not a bad deal at all.

Broadly speaking, you can double dip, triple dip even quadruple dip

The thing is, some restaurants sign up for multiple dining programs besides Idine such as:

Restaurant.com
Dinnerbroker/
Opentable
Thedish
Entertainment

Some of them give % off, some are coupon/Giftcert based, some have their own points.

If you leave in a major metropolitan area like NYC or SFO it easy enough to locate and combine multiple discounts; it is almost as fun as earning miles.

I think you mean "live" in a major metro area.

Personally, I'm well aware of the different ways to get cash back/dining credits/discounts on restaurants. One you left out is www.valpak.com -- they send coupons in the mail but you can also get the coupons direct from their website.

However, in my experience, there are in fact, not that many that sign up for multiple programs, that I find convenient and/or desirable to patronize. At least that's the case in San Francisco. I've searched for these things habitually over the years -- restos that use opentable.com PLUS idine and/or restaurant.com certs, for example.

Also, quite often even if they participate in multiple programs, they will NOT honor multiple programs for the same dine. For example, a few years back, I used a restaurant.com discount cert at a restaurant that also participated in idine. I got the discount, but did NOT get the idine miles. (On the restaurant.com certs, the T&Cs say: "...cannot be combined....") And at another idine restaurant, I used a valpak.com discount but didn't get idine miles. (Used an idine-registered CC in both these examples.) However, the cash discount was worth far more than the miles would have been in either case.

One example of when I WAS able to double-dip was at the Crocker Galleria in downtown San Francisco. Some of the eating places there participate in a "frequent dining" program (see list of participants here: http://www.shopatgalleria.com/frequent.htm ); eight dines stamped on a card gets you one free (up to $6) lunch. It so happens that two of the participants are also idine places: Leila Mediterranean and Pizzelle Sorrento (same owner).

So I qualified for VIP status buying inexpensive lunches, got idine miles and free lunches to boot (and of course the credit card points/miles).

Silly rabbit.

First of all, what hull22 obviously meant was that with any credit card that gives you anything (points, miles, credits, cashback, etc) on all purchases, you get that on RN restaurant dines on top of the miles/points you get through RN.

Obviously, the earning rate differs from card to card! But the earning rate on the card does not differ from RN restaurants to non-RN restaurants. Ie, there's nothing special about how your JetBlue card works at RN restaurants compared to how it works at other places, just like there's nothing special about how a Starwood card works at RN restaurants compared to how it works at other places.

There are a handful of cards (though I don't know if any of them are airline/hotel cards) that earn more points at restaurants than at other establishments, but even in those cases you don't earn more at an RN restaurant compared to a non-RN restaurant.

So I don't see how it's a big thing that you consider it something you earn on top of RN, when it's something you earn everywhere. (And which card you prefer to use everywhere has nothing to do with RN and thus nothing to do with this forum!)

Second of all, the value of a point differs widely (at least by factor of 10 to 1) between some programs and others. Thus it's ridiculous to say "I earn 2 points but you only earn 1" when you're talking about completely different points. (As a simpler example, because it's comparing hotel points to hotel points: Most hotel points transfer 5:1 to airline miles, but Starwood hotel points transfer 1:1 to most airline miles. In that sense, you could say that Starwood points are worth 5 times what others are worth, but only if your goal is to transfer to airline miles. However, Starwood transfers 2:1 to United, so in your goal is to transfer to United, suddenly Starwood points are worth only 2.5 times what others are worth. Meanwhile, the value of Starwood points compared to other hotel chains' points might be yet different if you want to acutally redeem for hotel nights, and even then it might vary from country to country, different types of destinations, different quality hotels, etc.)

At least you can double dip - Membership Rewards and miles, or if you have something like the Hilton HHonors AMEX, points and miles. Bundle it with a booking made on OpenTable (if it's a resto that offers 1,000 points for early bookings, five of these and you have a fifty dollar dining check in the mail) for a triple dip, add a discount coupon from the website or a newspaper and Bob's your uncle.