mvjs

Haven't showed up whatsoever in my account; tried logging in and out, different pages, etc.

gottaluvNW

This may be obvious to some, not to all. Before you do your mile transactions, verify that your award seats are actually available on the flights you are interested in. Secondly, note that US charges $250 per award ticket change as a fee. Finally, mileage levels go up on January 6 - purchase before this date.

Bottom line - if you are unsure of your EXACT itineraries, its not necessarily a good deal... fees can add up quickly. Finally, what are your liabilities if one of the airlines goes belly up? Are you prepared to risk this?

Good luck!

vysean

All very good points. The change fees and redeposit fees can be especially onerous, so I wouldn't book anything unless I was absolutely certain that I could make the trip and was happy with the routing, or unless I was prepared to spend $250.

Boddingtons

I've had absolute murder with this - bought 50/100k miles and they are "lost" somewhere - although I have a Points.com confirmation number and an authorisation on the Amex card used - albeit no email. US can't search using the Points.com reference and any attempt at speaking with points.com will get you nowhere - they wash their hands of it and tell you to sort it out with the airline. I was quite literally thrown from pillar to post.

I wasted about 7 hours on the phone over the weekend talking to a bunch of absolute cretins who quite frankly talked nothing but rubbish. One told me I should have received an eticket number and a confirmation for my miles purchase!!! one minute I'm being told it'll be resolved within 24hrs, next minute I'm told to wait 10 days for an investigation which was completely unacceptable given the short time frame before departure on the reservation on hold - had to rebook it three times!!. Anyhow, I eventually got through to a supervisor who agreed that if I purchased another 50k, they would refund my credit card if the charge for the first chunk of miles actually hit. Lets see, eh!

Thankfully the second purchase hit straight away and I received a confirmation email unlike first time round and I was able to go ahead and have the reservation ticketed.

rrgg

I don't know if this matters, but points.com does not allow transfers INTO a DM account if the zip code doesn't match. This is even true if your account has a 4-digit extension on file, but you only enter a 5-digit zip code for the transfer. Since the Buy/Gift/Share is through points.com, this could be causing someone a problem. I think the same is true for the MagsForMiles program.

upsidedown

Person A has 10k miles that expired and can be reinstated for $100.
Person A shares the 10k miles with person B.
Person B shares 25k miles with person C.
Person C shares 50k miles with person B.

We are all related so there are no issues.

I think the costs are:

Reinstate 100 miles = $100
Share 25k = $280
Share 50k - $530

So net gain of 85k miles for $810 or less than 1 penny / mile (.0095).

We mainly use miles for coach tix in the US and to Europe.

thyeri

Same problem here...
bought 50/100 miles 8h ago and nothing is on my account... and would like to fly tomorrow from HKG lol...

Called US Airways that told me to call Points.com. Then I wait 9am ET to call Points.com, that tell me right away that there is nothing they can do, even if it says the purchase was processed with Points.com. I have to contact US Airways.

So I called again US Airways, with confirmation number, everything... she tells me that there is nothing she can do, I have to wait 24h and miles will appear on the account.

So right now I am packing but still don't know if I will make it on the flight :-/

vysean

thyeri - not sure why there is so much inconsistency on miles crediting. Is it possible you have the postal code problem referenced above?

You might also simply try ordering another batch of miles (see Boddingtons' post) in the off chance that they credit immediately.

HCA

Sign... Finally find out by my own.
It should be no problam for A 40k -> B, A 40k -> C, both B and C should get 40k bonus. Thus the bonus limit is based on the recipients and there is no limit for the one to transfer out.

It cost me $86 to confirm (use more transaction to avoid transfer out limitation). I hope this helps others.

fijaircan

I had the exact same problem but mine was because I had opened my account on Nov 7th and was trying to buy miles on the the 17th (the system wouldn't allow purchase on the 16th but allowed it on the 17th - so I thought I was good to go - had the conf# and everything). I phoned US Air with the conf# but all they said was wait 24 hours and the miles would show - it didn't.

What I find out later was that I should have waited until the 18th to purchase - which I did and everything showed up in the account within minutes.

kats

Did you get the bonus miles posted too?

fijaircan

Yes, within minutes.

MarioRossi

Hi,

read through all the pages and hope I understood everything.
Wanna get enough miles for two First tickets from Europe to SAmerica. Would the following work:


Account A has 43,000 miles

Account A shares 25,000 with Account B = A=18 / B=50
B shares 50 with C = B=0 / C=100
C shares 50 with D = C=50 / D=100
C shares 50 with A = C=0 / A=118

A buys 12 and D buys 30 miles.

Does this work? Appreciate your help!

pogonation

This works but there is currently the bonus on buying miles as well so you would have to buy 6k and 15k as opposed to 12k and 30k ^

MarioRossi

Thanks for the clarification, pogo With all this sharing back and forth and calculating I completely overlooked the bonus miles for the buy transaction. All the better, makes it cheaper