slocouple

Best Buy has a bin to recycle used "credit card style" plastic gift cards

penner42

I stick them in my shredder and they eventually go out with the recycling.

jasonvr

Interesting. I actually wouldn't mind that.

I'll have to check that out. BTW, BB has fixed their shipping glitch and is back to free shipping in GCs. Also, they sell $5 GCs

That would be A LOT of shredding for me (95 ordered to date).

penner42

Yeah... I'm at 95 total right now between Staples and HD. The Staples ones I actually spend, though. Gonna ramp it up as soon as I get my new (0% for 7/12/12/15 months) credit cards. Gives me some time to cash them out before I have to actually pay for them. Also, gonna get around $400 in cc signup bonuses out of this, too. No way I'd have signed up for new ones without this promo. I'm gonna be cashing out HD GCs for a year. And I'll probably actually spend them on some stuff, too.

pogg

still no GC are crediting from this past week for me... has anyone had any updates? these grand ideas are worthelss w/o them actually, you know, crediting to MP mall!

penner42

Nothing since 8/26 (transaction went pending), and then confirmed 9/2... I'm fairly confident, though. I'm guessing they're just seeing an unprecedented spike in orders, and are having a little trouble with it. I'm honestly not worried. That said, I did write myself a little script that checks my transactions every hour and will email me when it changes.

As far as Newegg goes, it looks like there's no limit on how many you can add to your account/use on a purchase. Right now they have a couple of software packages free after rebate for Labor Day, with free shipping. If you're not in CA (no tax), it's an easy 19 transactions. Plus some free software.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16832108590
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16832152070
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16832620033
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16832286056

scottish_colin

Yeah, I have about 100 $10 transactions over the last week or so - and no sign of ANY of them in my MPS transactions list. I'm slightly worried...but not that much since I only spent money I knew I'd spend over the next couple of months anyway.

However, if they do post I'm going on a serious buying spree... RTW in First for the whole family!

jasonvr

So have you used multiple NewEgg GCs all on one order? I've emailed them and they never got back to me to tell me a limit. I have something a little over $100 that I want to order, but not until I know I can apply like 12 to one transactions.

penner42

I used 2, and it gave no indication at all of a limit. I haven't tried more, but it certainly seems like it should work. Also, there's little risk:
http://www.newegg.com/HelpInfo/GiftCardTerms.aspx

So you can go ahead and try it, and if it doesn't work, ask them for refunds on the gift cards.

akp

[QUOTE=johndoe123;17054311]When you regsiter you should get an e-mail " Thank you: Your Months of Miles Challenge has begun" which contains the terms of your offer. I suggest you keep/print it.

I smart enough to know to keep it / print it if I'd gotten it. The point is that I didn't get any confirmation. My husband was targeted (I have the postcard he received via snail mail), we registered him, but got no confirmation. United is unable to confirm that he's registered. In fact, they say he wasn't targeted!

So I'm keeping the postcard, and the screenshot of the monthsofmiles page that shows the "keep earning" verbiage, along with screenshots of each purchase.

Anita

BryanIAH

That should be good enough if they try any shenanigans.

Marathon Man

are you suggesting a HD DO? lol I would be in if it were east coast

If you got this email:

Thank you: Your Months of Miles Challenge has begun

FROM:
MileagePlus

TO:
ME

(mine came on) Thursday, September 1, 2011 8:05 PM

You're registered to earn 1,000 bonus miles for every 3 partner transactions. View this online.

Add [email protected] to your address book.

Then you should be fine. IT was all graphics and little text.
If you did not get it, then yes, you need to fight them now or do it later. And if you do it later, remember the Cartera, and Gd be with you.

[QUOTE=pitcarin;17052480]MP is a mall
Malls stink
Dining shows up, shopping delays. Each vendor has a different relationship. Some can be relied upon. For example, I am figuring the Home Depot is ok, but sams has fallen... til someone says it's back up again.

oh, we know this... but does it work?

pitcarin

I have had 37 dining transactions since this started. All but 5 are showing up as pending or posted(confirmed). Those 5 were done in the last couple of days so they should be posted soon.

Marathon Man

Yes, I hope it all goes through for you and all of us! I have many outstanding purchases as well. None yet confirmed as they are too new.

But until I see things CONFIRMED on my end I will not believe. Also, I think everyone needs to see that. AND full confirmation (which I believe I have with my email I printed) of being registered for this promo.

To be honest, I will not believe in this promo til I see all miles post AND all bonuses in Jan or whenever that is.

That is why I am going into this with pure distrust... I am using it to buy my thousands of dollars in HD GCs that I need anyway. If anything I can possibly thank United for nudging me to finally get that job done in my house that me wife has been asking me to do for a while now. I need to finish my basement and that will cost lots of money and I will go to HD so I am just doing it with GCs instead of another form of payment. If I get miles from them AND this bonus, I win. If not, I will have only lost hope. So if I have less than average hope, I lose nothing. It's kinda like in the classic film, Shawhank Redemption: Red eloquently explains to Andy one day in the Shawshank Prison cafeteria that �hope is a dangerous thing.�

It's the only way to go into this in my opinion. Go for it, yah, but only do this to get what you are buying anyway. And then you can remain happy.

I tend to think that's how people should approach every promo in life, but that certainly doesn't mean I wont be joining the fight if and when they fail to award us the miles for all this. I'm just trying to go into it with a different mind set. And I do believe the safest bet in all this is the dining method.

So, in the end, if we do everything right and by the book, it will only be hard to recoup bonuses if we find we are dealing with obtuse, one sided, poorly managed, overwhelmed, scam-laden disorganized and impersonal agents at entities that later deny us rewards due for reasons we all may have run into on these very boards before.

Oh wait, that's what I believe we WILL be up against! Hence, my stance on HOW I am going into my massive buy-ation of multiple HD GCs.

Of course, when it comes to miles gigs, I think of myself as Andy Dufresne sometimes, and so maybe I am also currently working on holes & ways around all this as I tell the warden who is probably listening in all of the above.

pitcarin

I tend to agree with you. I will end up investing a lot of money in the promo for a "perceived" payoff. None of us will know till the end. I am following the rules as closely as I can. If things don't work out, I will end up with a lot of GC's to burn and each one I use will be a painful reminder of a lot of work without the desired result.

Even if it works out, I will have invested a fair amount of cash-some of which I would have spent anyway, ie.. dining, food, shopping, etc. It is just that I had to spend the cash in advance of when I would normally have. However, I will then be sitting on a big pile of miles and will have made new UA FT friends ( I am usually an AA flyer). It is a HUGE time-consuming gamble, but one I have decided to take. I told my wife the other day "This is risky, but the odds seem to favor us. If I don't do what seems to be a sure thing, I will probably forever regret it"