If you go by the average value of points on Hotel Hustle, then Accor is by far the best for hotels. If you can get double the average value out of one of the others (Hilton, IHG, Carlson), then they can be better for you.
If you value all air miles about the same, then BA Avios is best, as you get 42% more of them than AA/AS/UA.

E-rewards [Master Thread]
 

Crazy how much my use of erewards has changed. Last year, i 95% of the time took the surveys off the website and maybe 5% off the app, now I take 95% of the surveys from the app and barely login to the main website;)

Tip: if you click "find a survey" on the app and it says no surveys available, try again two or three more times: it almost always finds you another survey even if the first time it does not.

Has the Starbuck's redemption period always been every six months? I thought it was only 90 days in the past. I'm trying to redeem for a $50 gift card and it's stating one redemption every six months.

It's getting irritating lately that I have been spending 10 minutes answering questions giving them all kinds of data to get the message that I don't qualify for the survey or that they already have maximum number of participants.

At least with the government surveys I get 500 points every time

What are gov't surveys?


Starbucks has been every 6 months for the last couple of years. Not sure before that. tls

Very questionable results via that website. Starwood is worth 2.4-3 cents per on redemption. Hilton is worth .5 cents per. IHG is worth 1 cent per. Although not on that site Southwest airlines is worth 1.3 cents per. Avios may be lovely if you use for domestic US short haul redemptions. I just redeemed for 5.5 cents per via that method on BA. You'd be hard pressed to beat that redemption unless you redeem for the other majors to top off a biz/first class redemption.

That's because you're selectively picking your redemptions, whereas that data set was talking all hotels into consideration, whether or not it was a good deal.

Hence the min, max, median values. You are only looking at the max end of the scale.

I for one will never redeem a short haul flight living out on the West Coast - rather drive to Portland than fly.

Just an fyi - I redeemed for IHG rewards points and they took 6 calendar days to post. Much better than the confirmation email which stated it would take 4-6 weeks.

Has anyone redeemed recently to Club Carlson? Just wondering how long does it really take for the transfer.

Most of the programs post once a week, only BA is twice per month. I guess Club Carlson is once per week too, so it will take a week at most.

Thx!

I can actually answer myself now - it took 5 days [as opposed to advertised 2-4 weeks when redeemed].

Thanks for giving the heads up on the mobile surveys. I seem to be getting two of them per 24 hour period, which is adding up faster than the e-mail ones ever did.

One note- my mobile app has fewer redemption options than the web site does. Noticed that BA is missing on my phone but still there on my laptop web browser.

I've recently had $25 level rewards post within 24 hours to AAdvantage and AS Mileage Plan.

Color me impressed! :cool:

I find tons of surveys via desktop - but it's interesting to hear there are more via mobile. May have to download the app. Thanks :)

I was actually going to dump E-rewards, but the pace has picked up quite a bit. I've accumulated about $75 in the last 6-8 weeks. And I'm still using the website. Imagine if I downloaded the app.

This is a first for me -- the firewall at work blocked a survey site that e-Rewards redirected me to because of "pornography." I am not sure of the exact subject matter because I had just gotten redirected there after answering screening questions at a different URL. But from the screening questions, I am sure there was nothing of a NSFW nature. Here is the first part of the URL that got blocked. Note that the letters "s e x" are part of the domain name. I am sure that that is why the blocking occurred.

URL: https://surveys.qsext.com/Projects/...