The Account statement still says "Expiring on 01-May-2011: xxx"

E-rewards has extended the expiry date twice for me. Maybe they do this for everyone who is active enough.

If the expiration date is being extended, the date on your account won't change until May 1. Then it resets to the following year. In the past, my wife and I have each received an email about 30 days before expiration on our respective accounts telling us that the expiration date has been extended.

Not true with my acct. It used to say "$160 will expire May, 1st" (paraphrasing) and now it says nothing. This happened about 2 or 3 weeks ago. Nada. Maybe it will never expire. :) No email notice either.

I had that happen as well, after being invited to be a part of some Preferred Research Panel. The expiration date went away completely for a year, then came back just in time to receive a notice telling me that the expiration date had been extended for another year. It seems to defy logic.

On my e-rewards home page, there is the following link under the Tablet Giveaway: "Currency Expiration: Thank You For Your Participation." When I click on it, it says my points are good for another year :). I never got an email about it.

If you're not sure whether your points are expiring, I suggest checking your home page. It's not worth assuming something and losing your points.

Very good news. If e-Rewards is actually reading this, thank you! It's appreciated.

It looks like you can now redeem US,CO and DL miles once every 30 days. The previous limit was once every 180 days. No more redeeming surplus rewards for hotel points.

Yesterday I got a note saying my points would not expire for another year. I think that's two straight years.

Thanks for the headsup on this. Just checked both our accounts, and as you indicated, all airline rewards have been changed to one every 30 days.

OTOH, my account, which unfortunately they tied to my e-miles account for Delta redemptions years ago, still limits my e-miles>SkyMiles redemptions to one per 90 days.

It looks like you can now redeem US,CO and DL miles once every 30 days. The previous limit was once every 180 days. No more redeeming surplus rewards for hotel points.

I got an email from e-rewards advising about this. A very welcome change.

WSJ Question
 

Last April, I redeemed some e-Rewards dollars for a 26 week Wall Street Journal subscription. Then in November, when I wanted to start another subscription, I noticed that the WSJ wasn't available. Instead, I redeemed some airline miles for another 26 week subscription. How often does the WSJ become available for redemption in e-Rewards? I want to juggle using e-Rewards dollars and airline miles for my WSJ subscriptions.

For my last April-October subscription with e-Rewards, I called customer service and gave my email address to create an online account in order to manage my subscription from home (stop delivery, resume etc). I did not do this with my airline miles account. If I redeem again with e-Rewards, will the WSJ have my email address/online account from last year already saved and ready to go? If not, will it raise any red flags if I call and give them the same email info as last year? I ask because on e-Rewards, it mentions for new subscribers only, but then it also mentions only one redemption per 12 month period, so that's contradictory. How do you all coordinate WSJ redemptions and accounts from multiple sources?

Virus alert!
 

This just happened to me tonight. Received an invitation for an education survey for $2.50. Three pages into being asked questions about whether I'm planning to pursue an MBA, my computer is crippled with a fake Windows Total Security 2011 virus. E-rewards was the only window I had open. I've already contacted them about it, but wanted to post a heads up in case anyone else receives that particular survey.

Update from e-rewards regarding CO
 

Dear XXX,

At e-Rewards®, we are excited to partner with companies like Continental Airlines who invite their selected members to join the e-Rewards Opinion Panel and offer an exciting way to collect OnePass® Miles. As you may be aware, you were previously limited to one (1) OnePass Miles redemption per calendar quarter. Soon it will be easier and more rewarding for you to collect OnePass Miles with e-Rewards than ever before!

IMPORTANT NEWS ABOUT YOUR CONTINENTAL AIRLINES REDEMPTION OPTIONS

We are proud to announce that starting April 29th, you can redeem your e-Rewards Currency for OnePass Miles once EVERY 30 DAYS, allowing you to collect OnePass Miles faster!

Previous OnePass Miles Redemption Limit: Redeem once per calendar quarter
NEW OnePass Miles Redemption Limit: Redeem once every 30 days!

To check your account balance and see how much e-Rewards Currency you have available to redeem for OnePass Miles, simply click the button below.

Go

As always, we value your time and continued participation. Continue to check your inbox and your Member home page for future opportunities to earn e-Rewards Currency.

We value your time,
The e-Rewards Team

Thanks for the head's up. I just got the $2.50 education invitation a few minutes ago. Glad I read your post first. Gonna skip it.

The Education Survey worked fine on my Apple...

On my PC as well.

I received this second education survey for $2.50 as well today. The survey that harbored the virus, though, was sent 4/30, and contained the exact same wording (I received both invitations), but directed to a different third-party survey provider.

Perhaps they pulled the first survey, cleaned it up, then sent the second invitation? I'm still waiting to hear back from them.

Decided to risk the education survey after all, worked just fine.

Must have taken a little while to get to the west coast ;) as mine just showed up with only minor modifications....

Now I know I did not sign up via CO (iirc, Hilton but not sure) tho I recently did a reward for CO miles and they are the only airline redemption I've done as oppose to HH religiously every 90 days

I have a friend who wants to spend his Erewards $$, but has really limited options (compared to mine). I presume from reading here that it depends on who you sign up your account with, but I also read that by crossing a balance threshold more options open up.

Is there any way to open more options for my friend?

i believe you are stuck with the same options you had from the beginning unless that particular invite expands into more redemption choices. Having said that I don't believe it has anything to do with a threshold.

You can't do anything about it

+1 here. I've been doing e-rewards for years, have gotten up as high as $200 before redeeming, and none of my redemption options have ever been expanded.

One of my accounts sits at $465 right now. Same options there as were there last year when I had under $25. Nothing changes, except sometimes they add and subtract partners as contracts expire or re-up. Been with E-rewards since 2001.

Your e-Rewards Bonus (for inactivity)
 

After not having time to click on any survey links for the past month and a half, I just received a $3.00 credit with "no strings attached". Actually, there were strings - I had to complete a very short internal survey about why I'd been inactive. :cool:

Just curious, how come you're holding $465 instead of depositing at least $100 of it, since 100 is the max deposit?

I have about $1000 in my accounts. I'm for one waiting for another double partner promotion from PCR. It would net me 80K in PCR points.

Aha. Good idea. I knew I was checking FT for good reason. The note-taking continues:)

E-Rewards
 

I'm just curious what people feel is the best value for $100 of e-rewards points. In the past, I've chosen Hilton. Yesterday i saw Priority Club up there but now it's gone. Also saw they just added Hertz. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Yup, for me its Hilton. Once per quarter, like clockwork - a quick and easy 7000 HH. :)

And for me as well ^

Is anyone getting a lot of catalogs and junk mail in the mail as a result of using e-rewards? I did a consumer electronics survey once and I'm getting tons of electronics catalogs. Having more trash is not a huge deal, but I'm just concerned about privacy.

I'm starting to think it's too much trouble for not much return... Some surveys take as long as 40 minutes to complete, most 20 minutes.

WN transfers are now available for those who didn't sign up with an airline sponsor: 500 pts for $25, 1000 pts for $50, 2000 pts for $100.

But you can't just link a random FF account to AmEx MR. The holder of that FF account has to be either you or a person that has an additional card for one of yours.

AMEX MR link
 

It is probably a misconception or because of poorly executed transfers. Just last week, I have successfully transferred AMEX MR points to the SPG account of a person who was not an additional cardholder. He had a different last name too.

Not true at all. Any acct can be linked to an Amex MR acct for transfer. Just need the relevant personal info requested at time of linking.

I've recently signed up with e-rewards and have had 5 invitations to do surveys, the last 11 minutes ago. Every one has said the opportunity has already expired (including the one 11 minutes ago) when I click on it. Is it always this way?

This is an ongoing problem, started when they tried to localize your IP for certain partners, it was fixed for a while, but it's happening again. It's an ok program when it works, and you get surveys frequently...Another issue you might encounter is surveys are cut short after spending 10-20mins on them and you only get partial credit.

Posting time to Continental?
 

Any recent experience concerning posting of e-rewards to Continental? My transaction initiated nearly two week ago has not posted. Earlier reports in this forum indicated points posting over a Tuesday or within a week. If that is still the trend, some action may be needed on my part (to contact e-rewards).