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Forget it guys...

[This message has been edited by Absik001 (edited 08-21-2001).]

perhaps because it is against the rules?

Ummm... becuase it is a form of fraud?

cheers Peter

They are way ahead of you, with safeguards and cookies to prevent it. Opinionplace tells you when your next visit can be. Beating the system is not the point when acquiring miles.

[This message has been edited by flowerchild (edited 08-20-2001).]

Not just cookies, but sophisticated anti-fraud programs ... let's just say that unless you transfer all your points to different FF accounts, I'm pretty sure ClickRewards is going to figure it out ...

Although others may argue this, I think you're right on .... it's not about "beating" the system, but about using the system to be most beneficial.

Most of my friends know that I am always searching for creative ways to earn miles. However, I don't agree at all with the method that was suggested above.

First, Clickrewards has been very good to a lot of us here. They have enabled some of us to have benefited from earning free tickets much faster, an example would be the double bonus it offered before with United and American Express Starpoints.

Right now, the company is going through some tough times. I really don't advise any of us to try to benefit by "causing" further damage to a significant medium through which we earn miles.

One of the main reasons places like Clickrewards, All advantage, and so many of the others are no longer in the shape they use to be (assuming they even exist anymore) is because of the huge number of people who cheat them for a few miles. Clickrewards sells survey participants to Opnion place, not one person taking the survey 20 times. Same with the others, the number of people either wasn't there or couldn't be justified anymore because everybody is cheating the system.

I personally have loved some of these systems that have come and gone but it's easy to understand when somebody wants to take 10 surveys and posts it in a forum how easy it is to cheat Opnion Place. It's no wonder the sponsors of such programs are having second thoughts.

OK, chaps, don't kill me ...

I'm not going to jigger up the ClickRewards...
I only wrote down my idea. I agree with you that ClickRewards is a good place to earn miles and do not want to get them into troubles.

Regards,
Absik001

Are we attending the mass here?
Since when you people become so moralistic?
Poor man from Slovakia asks the age-old question about reward programs (which is new for him) and a bunch of capitalists from the land of Liberty, from his Big European brother and even from Down Under kicks a **** out of him.
In reality I will tell you what everyone is doing: don't violate rules, bend them to your advantage. Do you have parents, children, relatives, friends who do not care to use Clickrewards and to be registered at some particular airline? Ditto! Think for youself.

Small tech advise: download Netscape 6.1, it has a nice cookie manager (under Privacy and Security). It allows you to watch your cookies, keep useful ones, reset ones which need to be reset.

I see some heavy-hitters on this thread and I'm really surprised: by these days of dotcom doom you should realize that no amount of your compassion will save unsustanable business model. If they have holes, they should patch them, your obstinence will not help a bit, they will learn how to make money or will fail regardless.

Cheers.

I am as totally unmoralistic as the rest of the people here, the issue is how long the program will stay in exhistance when people are cheating it, and then posting in a public forum how easy it is to do. There isn't any way anybody reading this forum would ever use an Opinion Place survey now, as they will think 10 people are just registering over and over again and that is all they are getting for responses. If that happens then nobody will get any miles.

I'm all for cheating, but not when the end result will be like all the other programs people have cheated the life out of and no longer are in business.

Im sure that when you try to redeem the milage on the same frequentflier number they will catch, and legally they can take the individual to court, if they want.

I'm not going to take sides in this discussion but keep in mind that the parent company for Clickrewards is, as with most internet e-commerce .coms, is not doing so well financially. The more we "find ways" to get free points the less chance they have in staying in business thus we lose a good avenue to earn points.

Some unsolicited commentary:

Personally, I don't know why this thread hasn't been deleted, much less staying open with additional replies from FTers.

I believe that either the moderators or Flyer Talk Admin, as they are reviewing the open threads, should identify "extra-legal" ideas such as this, place a comment such as "this isn't the way we do things on FT" or "FT does not condone this sort of mileage accumulation". After this comment is posted in reply, the thread should be locked and kept alive for say, 48 hours, and then deleted.

If this had been done with the scam "jag0052" tried to start on the AA board regarding self-referrals on AOLAAdvantage, maybe the "Coupon Connection" board would have been spared a lot of frustration immediately after that.

Just my Infinite Airways "Infintesi-mile"

tovaz