No.

If people are worried that 4 purchases made at FTD at the same time would count as 4 transactions, thereby putting them at 10+ in purchases, wouldn't it be easier to just make 8-9 separate TIB purchases and cut it short.
TIB miles post the quickest anyway.

Date Post date Description Miles
11/29/2009 12/10/09 SHOPPING MALL, GAIAM 8
11/29/2009 12/10/09 SHOPPING MALL, BOSE 8
11/29/2009 12/10/09 DIVIDEND MILES SHOPPING MALL 40
11/30/2009 12/02/09 DIVIDEND MILES WIRELESS MISC. BONUS 15
12/1/2009 12/14/09 DIVIDEND MILES SHOPPING MALL 150
12/6/2009 12/21/09 SHOPPING MALL, JC PENNEY 3
12/10/2009 12/16/09 TRACKITBACK.COM WORRY-FREE TRAVEL MILES 79,998

Just bought one more order of 3k from TIB which should post Wednesday. So now, its just wait and see if this craziness will pay off in march sometime.

You better be sure you get 4 at other merchants...

Hi guys

This thread is getting really long allready, I tried to read through alot of it, have some questions. I hope you will forgive me if they have been asked allready.

I will be making my purchases tomorrow. Did two allready today. One from FTD and one from Sears.

A few questions. Since I only have a foreign creditcard, which web sites are the best for that to shop? Shipping goes to a friend in the US, billing is out of the USA. FTD took foreign cards, sears I dont know yet if it went through.

Is there a shop, that screw up on the transaction date and that i should avoid so late into the promotion?

Any advice for me, that i have to be careful with so late.

Another quick question if i did this right. When I clicked on the sears link, it gave me the skymall webpage. From there I klicked on the sears link. I bought a gift card. I didnt have to enter any details from my US airways account by checkout, will the miles still cretid?

Thanks fot all your help. Lets hope it will work in march

To answer some of them:
I don't know about the foreign cards.
None of the shops have been particularly late in these months, according to reports.
It's likely better if you shop at stores in the Dividend Miles mall that are known to post with unique names. Barnes and Noble does, for instance.
I will suggest Gaiam. Gaiam posts with a unique identifier. Since you buy a tree donation in a non-American land for $2, there's no shipping and it might be easier. But I don't know.

At the Shopping Mall, you should have entered your DM number and password. Then click on start shopping. Go straight through, buy, and checkout - don't close the browser or anything. That will make proper credit more likely.

I thought you were going for > 2m miles. Did you change your mind, or are you making another TIB purchase?

just offering anecdotal info focusing on posting time for transactions.

Does anyone know which credit card (AMEX, MC, Visa) don't have a foreign transaction fee associated with them when ordering from TIB? Is a foreign transaction fee being added because TIB is not charging the card in US dollar? I'd really like to avoid paying any additional fee.

That is 5k total! - 700k miles at that. I have a feeling that the zimbabwe of miles will soon be US and not DL at this rate. Though I am tempted by the cost of my recent upgrade, I keep reality in place; is this like AOL in 2000 or Tulips in the 16th century?

My only advice would be to burn soon and do NOT keep these for your grand children as an inheritance.

US has always sucked for domestic awards (much like DL does now supposedly). But for star awards, it shouldn't matter. If CO or ANA shows availability, we should be able to get the tix. Also if one enjoys travel to Europe in winter like I do, Envoy for 60K is a huge bargain. So I am looking at it as business class travel to Europe for roughly the price of a trip in Y (or cheaper!).

That's funny... a couple years ago I was in Zimbabwe and spent one million dollars on a Diet Coke. The bill was $900,000 and I tipped the barman $100,000. I think the total was about $3 USD.

Hopefully Dividend Miles won't experience that much inflation. I'm in for 280k miles so far, but thinking about going for the holy grail of 1M. :)

Zimbabwe is now experiencing deflation.

US Airways on the other hand is both printing currency and raising prices January 6, so.... :p

I have only seen their new award chart for US Airlines award. Is the star alliance award chart also going to change, does someone have the new one?!

See http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/us-ai...-1-6-10-a.html