Worth it to get USAir 140mi/$
 

Frugal Travel Guy just posted a way to earn 140mi/dollar using a new USAIR promotion

http://www.frugaltravelguy.blogspot.com/

I was going to pull the trigger and spend roughly $5000 for 700K worth of USAir miles.

Questions:
1. What do people think? With the recent 3-tier structure and devaluation of miles what do people think about essentially "buying" these miles.
2. I have heard it is a difficult experience trying to book star alliance flights over the phone with lazy agents. What do people think about the booking experience they have had with USAir on Star Alliance flights
3. Brought to my attentions that the fees are outrageous with USAir. So is it true that one is charged: $40 for call center + 25/35/50 Award processing fee for each award ticket redemption of *Alliance flights?

Just wanted to get experienced USAir DM flyer thoughts...for example if this offer was in the DL SkyMiles section I would say to anyone dont waste there time as skymiles are worthless.

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This looks like it's going to turn out to be very valuable! Hopefully the miles will post without spending hours on the phone!


Halothane

2 and 3 are not huge concerns. The agents are good enough if you use the ANA tool and despite the $100 fees you still get a great deal. 1 is the real concern.

Has anyone had (base, not 250% bonus) miles post as part of this promo yet? I'm wondering which retailers have the fastest turn-around.

Already made 6 purchases (just to be sure)...am waiting for first 4 to post before I pull the trigger on trackitback.

BTW, where can you track purchases?

Same here! Just gonna wait to purchase trackitback until I see some kind of activity. I don't want them to apply the 250% bonus to a small purchase.

That's my single biggest concern. The one downside with these promos is posting time (or whether things post at all).

I'm actually not too worried about that. To me, the language looks pretty clear.

Mike

I hope you're right, because I'm planning on making my trackitback purchase today :)

I've made a few "buffer" purchases, just to be safe. Hopefully, not too many :D

For these click-through purchases, I wish there was better confirmation of the transaction. With Bing cashback, you get an email not too long after completing your transaction. Other sites should do the same.

Anyone used the THANKS discount code on restaurant.com lately?

I'm getting a "coupon expired" error...

Code SAVE didn't work yesterday either even though I had an email saying it was good through yesterday.

Got a new email today for the code LIST which (supposedly) gives 60% off of a restaurant.com certificate.

I believe these T&Cs have nothing to do with the first 4 transactions, but instead mean that the bonus only applies to the first 10 transactions in the promotion period. Transactions #11 and after get no bonus.

Now that the morons at Wine Insiders have posted my September purchase as 2 transactions dated 11/30 (one for the 4 miles/dollar spent and another for the 1,000 mile sign-up bonus, I'm getting nervous that my TrackItBack purchase could end up being #11. Considering the big bucks I was planning on spending, that would be very, very bad.

Anyone know what TrackItBack's return policy is for unopened/unused merchandise?

The fun thing about being married to a mileage whore is that when my wife gets a huge thing of flowers, she's going to be more grateful for the miles that the flowers generated than the flowers themselves.

Mike

bose is ok, because when it posts, it will show as "shopping mall-bose", but sears will post as other shopping mall partner, don't know how they separate them.

Hope someone can help me---when I click on Bose--only 4-6 high priced items show up----how do I get the low priced cables? There doesn't seem to be a way out of the high priced page. Thanks for your help.