ani90

If you buy a ticket on United.com can you still get EQMs via the maximizer on CO.com?

WineCountryUA

no

tjpatte

how many tickets can you book and then purchase elite maximizer miles...and then cancel?

WineCountryUA

no known limit but the refunds can take a week or so, making you credit card record a little messy. Why do multiple purchases? Why not make just a single purchase?

slariz

Yeah, so mine ultimately posted with about 12 hours of purchasing, but it has been over a week now and hasn't merged yet with the United EQM.

tjpatte

I am currently $14k short of premier exec status on united. what is the cheapest way possible to get this amount of miles? it seems as CO only offers 10k or 30k elite maximizer purchasing options

thanks!

WineCountryUA

Elite maximizer while one way of making up the gap is not likely to be the cheapest way -- flying the BIS miles will still likely be cheaper. And Elite Maximizer is likely to get more expensive -- only 12 days left.

As for Elite Maximizer, it does sometimes max out at 10K EQMs, so it may take two purchases to do 14K EQMs.

A pertinent question is at (presently) $2.7K-$2.8K for 14K EQMs, is Premier Gold worth it? -- but that is you decision to make.

nikleb

So, if I see this should I be concerned? Do I have the EQM's or not?


12/17/2011 OnePass Reward Maximizer 1,438

12/17/2011 OnePass Elite Maximizer 0




Year to Date Elite Miles: 1,438

Year to Date Elite Points: 0

Lifetime Flight Miles: 1,438

BVsmurfette

I'm about 700 miles short of making one pass silver elite status this year. First time in about 10 years that i won't have made some sort of elite status, let alone even silver!
This is the first i'm hearing of this onepass elite maximizer tool - sounds like a great way to buy EQMs without actually having to fly. And sounds perfect for me b/c i only need so few miles. Could someone please walk me through exactly how it works / how i should do it? Do all flights on co.com offer this option?

Wish i had known about this 2 weeks ago b/c I just flew EWR-CVG return trip and could have done this as part of that!!

steve64

Well, like I said in my earlier post, you need to understand the columns/sections of the statement you're reading.

These are you RDMs:You bought 1,438 RDMs and that's exactly what you got.
There's a 2nd (and confusing) posting that shows you upgraded your RDMs to EQM. But that's not another purchase of additional miles, it's an upgrade of the same miles. So zero RDMs on that transaction.
Thus RDMs shown here are (1,438 + 0) = 1,438

These are your EQMs:IMHO, it's clear as day that your EQMs have posted.

While others are reporting different experiences, both this year and last my "Lifetime Flight Miles" increased almost right away. The "YTD Elite Miles" posted about a day later and finally the RDMs a couple of days later. The purchase seemed to directly drive the Lifetime miles. The purchase also seemed to drive the generation of a ticketing transaction (separate from the ticket purchased to be able to get to this offer). Also, if I remember correctly, the RDM and EQM purchases were treated ("ticketed") as 2 separate transactions, for a total of 3 "tickets". I do remember for sure that the RDM and EQM were 2 separate credit card transactions. The additional (delayed) postings are probably tied to these transactions.


Steve

nikleb

Thanks. So I am concluding that I am good on the CO end.

UA did not "post" the EQM yet. I am hoping this will happen soon.

ZRH2SFO

My CO EQM (Elite Maximizer) are not showing in my UAMP account but six SWU posted exactly one week after my last flight that put me over the combined 100'000 EQM mark. ^

steve64

UA will not "post" the EQMs.
Behind the scenes, a separate program sweeps (once a week ??) and notes your combined EQM. It will upgrade your Elite status in both UA and CO when appropriate, but the 2 individual websites will not reflect the combined total miles... to the point of even telling you that you still have x miles to go to reach the next threshold, even you've already reached it. The websites should both reflect your new status after a week or so, even tho individually they don't "see" enough miles to qualify.
For this "combo sweep" to take place, you need to have linked your CO-OP and UA-MP accts.