E-rewards [Master Thread]
#3421
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: SF CA USA. I love large faceless corporations. And they cherish me in return (sometimes). ;)
Programs: UA Premier Gold/disappointed 1MM, HH Gold, IHG Plat, MB Gold, BW Diam Sel
Posts: 17,575
Luckily, even though I still don't see Amazon as an available reward, I still have Starbucks and iTunes (my usual gift card redemptions), among many others. And who knows, maybe Amazon will show up some day.
#3422
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Central Europe
Programs: AY Gold, A3 Gold, UA Gold, Hyatt Globalist, HH Diamond, Marriott Gold
Posts: 482
My ONLY e-rewards account just closed with $250 balance, even after sending in the complaint. No read reason given (just some .... about one account per member allowed and similar). My sin - in my opinion: had done over $300 per month regularly and always redeemed $100 for United, Iberia, British and Avios, netting 2000 United and 5000 Avios miles every month. As I don't have any other e-rewards accounts, I obviously couldn't earn and redeem from other accounts. Obviously, this was too much and too expensive for those pigs. Thinking of suing them in front of small claims court. This is just unacceptable business in my opinion. So, all that still have active accounts: do no hold any balance, spend all that you can. You never know.
Last edited by mirror74; Jul 5, 2018 at 7:29 am
#3423
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: MCI
Programs: AA LT Gold; BA Silver; Hilton Diamond
Posts: 3,081
Haven't seen Amazon as an option yet.
#3424
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: ABQ LAX SNA ITO
Programs: AA AS DL UA US WN Choice Gold, BW Diamond, PClub Plat, HHonnors Gold, Marriott, Carlson Gold
Posts: 224
My cell phone is a VOIP number and is net being recognized as a valid phone number for confirming rewards, Even as a landline / voice line it doesn't work. I tried a few of the available online burn numbers but these don't work either. Anybody have a workaround other than the obvious, asking a friend to do get the confirmation?
#3425
Join Date: Aug 2017
Posts: 1,610
My cell phone is a VOIP number and is net being recognized as a valid phone number for confirming rewards, Even as a landline / voice line it doesn't work. I tried a few of the available online burn numbers but these don't work either. Anybody have a workaround other than the obvious, asking a friend to do get the confirmation?
#3426
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: NYC
Programs: JetBlue, HH Gold, Hyatt Platinum, Marriott Gold
Posts: 19
My ONLY e-rewards account just closed with $250 balance, even after sending in the complaint. No read reason given (just some .... about one account per member allowed and similar). My sin - in my opinion: had done over $300 per month regularly and always redeemed $100 for United, Iberia, British and Avios, netting 2000 United and 5000 Avios miles every month. As I don't have any other e-rewards accounts, I obviously couldn't earn and redeem from other accounts. Obviously, this was too much and too expensive for those pigs. Thinking of suing them in front of small claims court. This is just unacceptable business in my opinion. So, all that still have active accounts: do no hold and balance, spend all that you can. You never know.
#3427
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Central Europe
Programs: AY Gold, A3 Gold, UA Gold, Hyatt Globalist, HH Diamond, Marriott Gold
Posts: 482
Might be. Did forget once or twice while vacationing abroad, Mexico or Jamaica, that I am no longer on US soil. But the punishment still seems harsh.
#3428
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: ABQ LAX SNA ITO
Programs: AA AS DL UA US WN Choice Gold, BW Diamond, PClub Plat, HHonnors Gold, Marriott, Carlson Gold
Posts: 224
Does checking the balances of your account and other household members on Awardwallet trigger investigations? I do that often and recently I redeemed a bunch of e-rewards dollars for a few airlines accounts and none have posted in 4 or 5 weeks. Usually AA get posted in 3 weeks, I don't know about Southwest and Alaska though as I have not redeemed for them before. I have not seen the miles in all 3 accounts.
#3429
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: MCI
Programs: AA LT Gold; BA Silver; Hilton Diamond
Posts: 3,081
I got kicked out a couple of times while trying to access surveys from Panama and Costa Rica last year while on vacation- they detected that my IP address was outside of the US. It didn't affect my account.
#3430
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: MCI
Programs: AA LT Gold; BA Silver; Hilton Diamond
Posts: 3,081
Add me to the list of crooks and liars. Account deactivated yesterday with $90 in it (would have been able to redeem another Hilton award in a couple of weeks). Usual boilerplate about what they look for before deactivating an account, they have no choices, blah, blah, blah. Thoroughly disgusted with e-Rewards.
#3431
Suspended
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Bregenz, Austria
Programs: AA, BAEC, Alaska, Flying Blue, United, IHG, Hilton
Posts: 2,950
It looks like they are doing another purge of high value accounts. Keep burning those points down, people. Holding any kind of balance in e-rewards is a bad idea.
#3432
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: MCI
Programs: AA LT Gold; BA Silver; Hilton Diamond
Posts: 3,081
I just got a tube of toothpaste in the mail that I'm supposed to use for 2 weeks and then evaluate via an e-Rewards follow-up survey. Naturally, I can't now. I think the only right thing for me to do is to send it to the Chief Marketing Officer of the Fortune 500 company that manufactured it and explain that I can't evaluate it and tell him why. What do you think?
#3433
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: San Diego
Programs: UA LTP, AA LTG, DL Plat, Marriott LTT, HH Diamond
Posts: 865
I just got a tube of toothpaste in the mail that I'm supposed to use for 2 weeks and then evaluate via an e-Rewards follow-up survey. Naturally, I can't now. I think the only right thing for me to do is to send it to the Chief Marketing Officer of the Fortune 500 company that manufactured it and explain that I can't evaluate it and tell him why. What do you think?
FTF
#3434
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: MCI
Programs: AA LT Gold; BA Silver; Hilton Diamond
Posts: 3,081
I'm sure they don't care about the toothpaste- I'm making a statement. ResearchNow's web site touts its ability to recruit "hard-to-reach professionals", which probably applies to most of the people on this Board (although I'm retired from being a hard-to-reach profesional). I want the Marketing CEO of the F500 company to understand that ResearchNow is alienating the very segment most marketers want to reach. I suspect a box with a tube of toothpaste in it will get a little more attention than just a letter. I know one letter won't change his mind but I'll have channeled my frustration into a constructive action and maybe planted an idea.
#3435
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: San Diego
Programs: UA LTP, AA LTG, DL Plat, Marriott LTT, HH Diamond
Posts: 865
Ah, OK. I had to look back and see that you were the recent purge victim. When you get the FT daily e-mail it's hard to follow the narrative of who is saying what from day to day.