Miles from Ebay
 

My very first post on FT. Please, I plan to do a lot of shopping on ebay (USA store) this week and wondering what partner airlines offer miles for ebay shopping.

I know Virgin Atlantic, BA & BMI give miles but it appears it's restricted to UK ebay store (ebay.co.uk).

Any ideas please. I need to maximise all the value from my shopping from ebay.com (USA) this week.

Many thanks in advance

There is no country restriction, just use the appropriate link (for the FF program) to enter Ebay. If you search for items internationally, all Ebay sites are linked anyway.
Another program you can earn points for Ebay purchases is Marriott.

Also Priority Club.

choicehotels program - 4 points per 1 usd, aeroplan - 1 mile/1cad, amtrak-1mile/1usd. You can add item to watch list and after pay through ebay.co.uk(bmi, virgin), ebay.ca(aeroplan).

If you have an Amex MR card you can earn 3 or 4 points per $ via the bonuspointsmall.com site.

this 10 days aeroplan mall have promo 5 miles/1 cad on ebay.

You could join MyPoints and get 2 points per dollar spent on ebay. You can redeem 10,000 pts for 5000 UA miles or 5100 pts for 2500 miles so it is basically 1 UA mile per dollar spent.

Thanks, this helped me too!

OP didn't specify what FFP was he/she interested in, but it seems of the Legacy airlines THE ONLY ONE to offer any chance for miles from eBay purchases is UA via MyPoints @ 2-4 MyPoints/US$ (depending on the month of purchase) to accumulate for 2500 Millage+ Miles (5100 MyPoints) or 5000 Millage+ Miles (10000 MyPoints) at a time w/o $ or time limits (MyPoints doesn't expire as well).

The reason UA is offering Miles is that they used to own MyPoints until they sold 'em to United Online (no relation to UA) several years ago....

If you go this way you can answer the Surveys provided (10 MyPoints if you don't qualify, 50-200 MyPoints if you do) and use the grocery savings coupons provided (by coupons.com and Smart Source, 10 MyPoints/coupons.com coupon redemption, 25 Bonus MyPoints for the 1st 10 coupons you print/month) to reduce the time needed to get enough MyPoints for an award.

So far it seems neither AA nor DL have ways to use eBay purchases to get Miles into their FFP's ...

Check out - http://www.nerdwallet.com/discounts/store/eBay

so anything you buy on ebay is OK for this ?

just spent $1500 last week and never heard of this promo

do you have a link ?

thanks

Rally

here are the terms:

Find whatever you're looking for at eBay and receive 4 Points per dollar. Your Points will not be credited if you are using an auction-monitoring program or if you are using eBay Toolbar. Please disable these applications prior to responding to MyPoints offers.

You will receive 4 Points per dollar for every purchase you make (excluding purchases made in the real estate, auto, eBay motors and travel categories).

eBay will remember you only for a period of seven days from the point you make your initial bid. If your auction is more than seven days from ending, please make sure you check your auction through MyPoints within the closing seven days. This will ensure you receive your Points.

and a link to get you 750 miles just for joining:
http://www.mypoints.com/emp/u/ma/ump...adLCiDih_Oyznc

Better yet, http://www.evreward.com/store/go/750

One-stop shop for all your coupons and cashback and frequent flyer bonuses.

+1 for evrewards - I never shop without it :-D

How do you earn Marriott rewards using Ebay

Through the ShopMyWay Mall.

try also rewardsdb.com

My personal favorite cash back comparison engine has got to be cashreporter.com. They even have ratings so you know which sites are the best. Note that bigcrumbs gives 36% of the seller's fees back to you vs. the rest that give a % back off your actual purchase price.

Bunch of good options for ebay here

Just checking if anyone has used the My Points deal with United Airlines and got miles posted ,

How do you know if it went thru when you do a purchase on Ebay ? is it on the ebay page or do you have to look on your mypoints page after the purchase ?

And we use 2 ebay buying names , does the mypoints website care if its used by 2 ebay user names ?

Thanks for your help

Rally

Anyone know ? Thanks

You access ebay via the link on MyPoints site, then make a purchase. You'll get mypoints for this. They show as pending for one month. Once you accumulate 5000, you can transfer to United.

Hi

is there a way to make this more automatic ? So that whenever I open ebay it is thru the MyPoints portal ?

I sometimes forget to go thru MyPoints , buy something on Ebay and then do a Homer Simpson DOOOH !

Thanks

Rally

You can probably save in the favourites the link to ebay that is on Mypoints' site and use it, but I haven't tried this and not 100% sure if it works.

Good idea, I will see if it works on the computer at the shop

Rally

the points from Ebay purchases the last week of May posted June 1st and I guess I get the points July 1st ,

Do they always wait till the 1st to post the purschase points that are pending ?

3 purchases and 3 posted points so good so far ,

only problem is my pop-up blocker on Chrome stops most of the links on MyPoints webpage, I will have to figure out how to change that,

Rally