They charged me right away. Normally pay my $10 in January but they charged me $30 last week. It's unclear whether it extended me by another 12 months or not.

If you cancel does it terminate the benefits immediately or at the end of your paid/subscription period?

benefits end after your subscription period. And they claim data is saved in case you renew later/

In case this is deleted, I have archived it.

https://archive.is/OzTyX :cool:

I find this price increase to be beyond offensive; I have been paying $10 for years under the assumption that that was the only way to keep the price grandfathered, as I was told it would be years ago. Now they're making excuses, pointing me to terms and conditions and otherwise blabbering about how they have been entitled to increase the price all along.

I don't use the service a ton and for sure, had I known that grandfathered "for so long as I maintain Awardwallet Plus" was just a bunch of marketing speak, I likely would have canceled years ago. Keeping people tethered by promising a rate ad infinitum causes people (like me) to rely on those promises, and when they change course, it sounds legally problematic.

Is it worth the fee?
 

I don’t like the idea of handing over my login information to a third party, no matter how secure they say they are. I know I can enter and update the information manually for each program I belong to. However, if I have to manually enter my information, I don’t see why I should pay a continual fee for a glorified excel sheet. That being said, I do like a good visual that is not just an excel sheet. Is there any option, even if it’s not award wallet, where I pay a one-time fee to keep track of points and expiration dates manually and can see it in an easy to understand way?

You can store the credentials in your browser vs on their servers which may or may not address your concerns. The issue for me was either certain programs were outright not supported (AA, UA, etc.), required some level of manual intervention, or required the use of their web plugin. It got to the point for me where just logging in manually every so often and tracking the programs myself made more sense. There was also some anecdotal information of using AW causing the loyalty program to lock your account assuming fraud was going on. I have no idea how true this was but there did seem to be at least some correlation in some instances.

Did anyone else start getting a lot more email from Awardwallet? I tried to limit what I get, but I don't see a checkbox for the emails they're sending now.

Sounds like someone over there decided to start getting some revenue happening.

Yes, the volume has ramped up over the last week or so.

I stopped using AwardWallet since I had to input most of my programs manually anyways.

I actually still like the free version for the oddball programs, like the cashback portals and the small hotel chains and foreign airlines.

But I really don't like their data gathering and now, their emails.

I'm going to pay it as an insurance policy. Years ago one of my programs I wouldn't have checked often if doing manually was hacked and they booked flights and drained the account. By updating balances regularly, I caught it much quicker and everything was restored. Also want to make sure no points or certificates expire.

I renew in 6 months. I assume if I do the 5yr plan, my new expiration is in 5 years and 6 months.

You are assuming that Award Wallet will be able to connect and check.

This is becoming much harder and I believe the cause of lockout with certain sites.

I am not convinced it has a long term future unfortunately.

I think I had this happen - AW logs in a lot to check balances, and some of the sites require additional info that may or may not be stored by AW. As a result, the program website treats it as a failed login attempt, and if you have too many of those it locks your account.

With more and more sites requiring multi-factor authentication, AW is probably going to slowly die if those websites do not have any sort of official support for their service.