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Originally Posted by libuser
(Post 12950355)
guys cool it off.
maaan I wish they hired someone smart to write that promotion better. This is what happens when an engineer writes that and not an english major guy. It does seem rather unlikely that there can be a "bonus" on dollars spent, since there is no existing dollars-to-miles conversion established other than the ones already listed (i.e. 40 miles per $1 spent at TIB). A gray area is whether the bonus applies on top of the "bonuses" (i.e. whether you get 10500 or 3000 for ShareBuilder). Also, considering that the instructions talk about shopping at 5 "participating merchants," and is then followed by a list of all the "participating merchants," I would think that any 5 should do with the exception of the insurance quotes, since we technically didn't "shop" at those merchants. |
Originally Posted by ExitRowAisle
(Post 12948405)
To be fair, I think pointsjunkie53 has a few other people in his/her corner. doubled79 has reached the same conclusion, and Evan! seems to be waffling.
I think we can all agree that this is a poorly worded promotion. Depending on how US Airways chooses to interpret its own words: 1. They could only give the 250% bonus on the 5th - 10th partners and not Partner Nos. 1 - 4 if 5 or more partners are used. 2. They could only give bonuses for Partner Nos. 6- 10 if they are different than Partners 1 - 5 and each other rather than giving bonuses for using 5 different partners plus some duplicates. 3. They could treat US Airways Shopping Mall as 1 unique partner or each store in the mall as different partners. 4. They could require all activity to post by December 30 to earn a bonus rather than allow partner activity that occurred during the promo but did not post until after December 30 to count. 5. They could adopt the bonus-for-every-dollar-spent interpretation championed by pointsjunkie53 and doubled79. For all of those reasons, anyone who is actually thinking of spending large amounts of dollars for throw-away items as a form of quasi-purchase of US Airways miles at a discount is taking a risk. The question then becomes how big of a risk is it, and I don't think anyone really knows. Does anyone have a direct customer service email address? Someone with CP status? A well worded email and response would end this dispute. ------------ Dear Mr. ramolnar, Thank you for visiting usairways.com. When you go to order you will need to make sure you use the email and click on the link to get to the page to order on. You will get 250% on each purchase you make from the different stores. If you have any further questions or concerns, please feel free to reply or call our Internet Support Desk at (800) 327-7810. We know that you have many choices and we thank you for choosing US Airways. Sincerely, <name here> Internet Support Specialist US Airways Original Message Follows: ------------------------ First Name: Last Name: ramolnar Email Address: ramolnar@flyertalk Dividend Miles Number: 1234567890 Message Hi. I have a question about the shopping bonus promotion. Say I shop at five different stores. At the end, does the 250% bonus apply to all five stores? Or does the first one get 50%, second 100%, and so on? Message generated on www2.usairways.com at 12/05/2009 08:56:10. |
Originally Posted by fsfsfsfs
(Post 12952557)
with the exception of the insurance quotes, since we technically didn't "shop" at those merchants.
If you define "shop" as buying something you're right. However, one can "shop" without making a purchase (I'm married to someone that does that regularly). According to Miriam-Webster, the verb "shop" means 1 a : to examine goods or services with intent to buy b : to hunt through a market in search of the best buy 2 : to make a search : hunt <shopping around for a better idea Now we can have an in-depth discussion on whether one needs to actually buy something to get the bonus since I think the "bonus on dollars or miles" has been beat to death... Jim |
is anyone having trouble with restarauant.com purchase through ThanksAgain? I have made 2 separate purchases over the span of 10 days, and neither one has shown up. The first purchase was on 11/27/09, and the second one was 2 days ago.
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Yes, nothing for me too! Strange... dont know to pull the trigger on TIB now or not...
Actually, 1 thing I have always wanted to ask but forgot... is this open only to legal residents of US? Or anyone with US DM can participate?
Originally Posted by corrad
(Post 12953221)
is anyone having trouble with restarauant.com purchase through ThanksAgain? I have made 2 separate purchases over the span of 10 days, and neither one has shown up. The first purchase was on 11/27/09, and the second one was 2 days ago.
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Originally Posted by pogonation
(Post 12951709)
I have tried some of the shops people on here have been using (e.g. donating a tree through GAIAM) but a lot require your billing address to be US. Could someone help me to get the cheapest possible purchases for someone with a UK address? :)
So far have: lego.com - LEGO brick erasers £1.95 Barnes and Noble - Silent witness eBook $1.99 (disallowed.. won't allow non US billing address) Sears - $5 eGift card Omaha steaks - $5 eGift card Edit: And regarding wrong addresses/paypal: Paypal checkout itself can be limited to US addresses (and is used as far as I tested it) and US only merchants might also check if your CC was issued in the US?. |
restaurant.com discount code SHARE gets 80% off. $25 gift cert for $2. Good through Monday, December 14.
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Originally Posted by corrad
(Post 12953221)
is anyone having trouble with restarauant.com purchase through ThanksAgain? I have made 2 separate purchases over the span of 10 days, and neither one has shown up. The first purchase was on 11/27/09, and the second one was 2 days ago.
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Originally Posted by rodrigo
(Post 12950975)
I said that. And I was reading off their website FAQ #14: "14. What is your return policy? Any unused product can be returned to TrackItBack within 30 days from the purchase date for a full refund, not including shipping and handling charges. Any Dividend Miles that have been awarded will be removed from your Dividend Miles account." http://www.trackitback.com/US/faqs.html So, now I would expect a potential problem with the return, but I'm generally not worried about receiving the miles. After all, US Air will still profit from my transaction on the front end. On the back, well, not so much.:D |
Originally Posted by fsa_ea
(Post 12953612)
Yes, mine are not posting either. In the past, these posted quickly. I do see the points listed in my ThanksAgain account, but for whatever reason, these have not moved over to my DM account.
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Originally Posted by halothane
(Post 12953626)
My Thanks Again purchase is the *only* thing that has posted so far. I'm hoping that the others post in time!
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Gift Cards
I have searched high and low and can't find anywhere that this is addressed. I purchased a B&N gift card through this promotion and then as soon as I get it, I log back in through the link and go to B&N and make a purchase for the full amount of the gift card. Any thoughts on whether this will effectively double all my miles (assuming I have done 5 different merchants and less than 10 overall purchases).
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Originally Posted by fsa_ea
(Post 12953612)
Yes, mine are not posting either. In the past, these posted quickly. I do see the points listed in my ThanksAgain account, but for whatever reason, these have not moved over to my DM account.
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Originally Posted by fsa_ea
(Post 12953612)
Yes, mine are not posting either. In the past, these posted quickly. I do see the points listed in my ThanksAgain account, but for whatever reason, these have not moved over to my DM account.
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I purchased ThanksAgain Restaurant.com cert on 12/1 and the miles were posted yesterday, 12/8. This is the first of my 6 purchases to post.
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Originally Posted by fsa_ea
(Post 12953964)
Do you mind sharing your purchase date & posting date?
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Originally Posted by andyandy
(Post 12947847)
Based on that response, I opened a new IRA, and two custodial accounts. Upon opening each account I received a "congratulations" message that included confirmation that "Your promotion has been accepted. You will receive 3000 bonus miles 4-6 weeks after your first trade." The only risk I see is the possibility that the posting date would not reflect transaction date. I consider that an acceptable risk, though. Update: My initial trades on three accounts were consumated yesterday. A total of 9,000 miles posted today! Way, way faster than I expected. YMMV. |
Just to make sure, I made 7 small purchases last week, so just waiting for them to post before pulling the big TIB trigger....only question is how many to aim for ;-)
As someone who travels US-Europe at least monthly, 125,000 for a *A F award at around 0.7c/mile has me salivating :cool: |
Anyone managed to get an answer from US yet regarding whether DM shopping mall is 1 store or whether each shop counts as an individual store??
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Originally Posted by pogonation
(Post 12955332)
Anyone managed to get an answer from US yet regarding whether DM shopping mall is 1 store or whether each shop counts as an individual store??
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Thanks. I have sent an email to US as well so that I can hopefully get the same reply and subsequently have it as evidence if anything went wrong ^
Thanks for address ^ |
5 different store have posted to my account. thanks again was not one of them.
sure hope you guys are right that it will be 2.5 of the miles earned. |
Originally Posted by pogonation
(Post 12955332)
Anyone managed to get an answer from US yet regarding whether DM shopping mall is 1 store or whether each shop counts as an individual store??
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For Thanks Again:
First, if your restaurant.com purchase isn't listed in the ThanksAgain website, you should contact them. Not a single purchase I've ever made there makes it into their system whether I use their own specific online mall or their "offline store locator" which they pointed me to when I first contacted them. They've always manually input the purchase for me. Second, if the purchase is there, showing 3 miles per $1, be patient. It's usually transferred to US swiftly but it can also take up to 2 weeks in my personal experience. |
I made eight purchases---seven have posted---Sears ($5.00) gift card---which I have received--- is the only one not to post. Now let's hope the 250% bonus posts. My biggest are Trackitback and Sharebilder. Best of luck to all.
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for real ?
i just sent them an email and thinking of doing the same to all the other merchants cause that really scares me...
Originally Posted by ArizonaGuy
(Post 12955436)
For Thanks Again:
First, if your restaurant.com purchase isn't listed in the ThanksAgain website, you should contact them. Not a single purchase I've ever made there makes it into their system whether I use their own specific online mall or their "offline store locator" which they pointed me to when I first contacted them. They've always manually input the purchase for me. Second, if the purchase is there, showing 3 miles per $1, be patient. It's usually transferred to US swiftly but it can also take up to 2 weeks in my personal experience. |
guys just want to report, thanksagain folks are superfast and replied within 5 mins. I told them my order number, and they manually posted the miles and told me that I should see them any second.
So make sure and email all merchants about missing miles and have them rush the miles. |
Originally Posted by vysean
(Post 12955416)
Although I suspect it will work, I would not count on that written response from US as being an official view nor a guarantee that multiple purchases from the DM shopping mall will count as multiple unique partners for the purposes of this promotion (excepting those noted separately in the promotion webpage, such as Barnes & Noble).
Jim |
Originally Posted by vysean
(Post 12955416)
Although I suspect it will work, I would not count on that written response from US as being an official view nor a guarantee that multiple purchases from the DM shopping mall will count as multiple unique partners for the purposes of this promotion (excepting those noted separately in the promotion webpage, such as Barnes & Noble).
I would expect that each of the listed merchants on the promotion page counts as one for the five needed to reach the 250% bonus level, so any of the individually listed stores can count as one, then any store not individually listed but part of Dividend Miles Mall is a single merchant. Note that this is consistent with the way the recently completed Grand Slam promotion worked, Bose counted as a separate merchant even though they are part of the Mileage Mall, then all other Mileage Mall merchants counted as a single transaction together. The difference in this promotion is that many more of the merchants have been broken out separately for whatever reason, but I would still expect all those not listed separately to count under the Dividend Mile Mileage Mall singly. |
According to the terms and conditions, you are correct Beckles:
"The US Airways Big Bonus Offer ('Offer') is available for transactions with participating Dividend Miles partners/stores listed on usairways.com/bigbonus only." The usairways.com/bigbonus url takes one to the page describing the promotion and listing the participating merchants. Jim |
Originally Posted by libuser
(Post 12955979)
guys just want to report, thanksagain folks are superfast and replied within 5 mins. I told them my order number, and they manually posted the miles and told me that I should see them any second.
So make sure and email all merchants about missing miles and have them rush the miles. |
Originally Posted by libuser
(Post 12955979)
guys just want to report, thanksagain folks are superfast and replied within 5 mins. I told them my order number, and they manually posted the miles and told me that I should see them any second.
So make sure and email all merchants about missing miles and have them rush the miles. |
Gift for College Sports Fans
I happened to see this the other day within magazines.com -- a partner that pays 15 miles per $ before bonuses.
http://www.magazines.com/search/list...hrules=default (By the way, don't use this link for ordering. You'll want to sign in through your US Airways account.) It's effectively a book (one-issue subscription) about the history of a number of different college sports teams. I was told yesterday that my order would arrive before Christmas, but you probably should check yourself before taking the plunge. $32.97 x 15 x 350% = 1,731 miles This partner falls under the umbrella of the Shopping Mall. |
Originally Posted by fsa_ea
(Post 12956335)
Wow. Thanks. They sent a personalized reply in 2 minutes, promising a resolution in 24 hours. Impresssive.
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Originally Posted by fsa_ea
(Post 12956335)
Wow. Thanks. They sent a personalized reply in 2 minutes, promising a resolution in 24 hours. Impresssive.
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Originally Posted by friedice
(Post 12956953)
I've been waiting for a reply for over an hour. Maybe it's too much to expect, but I guess they went on a break right after they replied to you. :( :td:
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Clarification Regarding the Big Bonus Promotion:
Thanks to beaubo and Janet @ InsideFlyer, the following information has been provided from US Airways regarding this promotion (emphasis mine): For every different partner that Dividend Miles members shop that are listed on the promotion landing page (usairways.com/bigbonus) during the promotion period (11/23 - 12/30), members will be eligible for a bonus. The bonus is calculated on the number of DIFFERENT partners they shop with, up to 250% bonus on what the partner lists as their mileage offer. For example: If you were to shop just at Bose during the promotion period, your bonus would be 50% more of their 1,500 offer, so 2,250 total miles. If you were shop at Bose, FTD and Macy's, you be eligible for a 150% bonus on their offers. To ensure that we have all mileage postings from our partners, we will run the process to post all bonus miles due to our members on March 1, 2010. What ever level of bonus that is due to members will be applied to the FIRST 10 transactions (If you shopped at iTunes 3 times, that counts as 3 transactions), based on the partner's mileage posting timestamp, of transactions that occurred during the promotion period. Also, each Dividend Miles Shopping Mall merchant WILL count as a different transaction, and are eligible for increasing a bonus level. |
Originally Posted by ramolnar
(Post 12952702)
A few days ago I filled out a customer support question on the website asking about question #1. Today, I got the response below (names removed). Since I have the email, this clears up #1 for five partners.
Does anyone have a direct customer service email address? Someone with CP status? A well worded email and response would end this dispute. ------------ Dear Mr. ramolnar, Thank you for visiting usairways.com. When you go to order you will need to make sure you use the email and click on the link to get to the page to order on. You will get 250% on each purchase you make from the different stores. If you have any further questions or concerns, please feel free to reply or call our Internet Support Desk at (800) 327-7810. We know that you have many choices and we thank you for choosing US Airways. Sincerely, <name here> Internet Support Specialist US Airways Original Message Follows: ------------------------ First Name: Last Name: ramolnar Email Address: ramolnar@flyertalk Dividend Miles Number: 1234567890 Message Hi. I have a question about the shopping bonus promotion. Say I shop at five different stores. At the end, does the 250% bonus apply to all five stores? Or does the first one get 50%, second 100%, and so on? Message generated on www2.usairways.com at 12/05/2009 08:56:10. I wasn't going to do this one but then I need to get some kind of holiday gift box to my Mom in CA so I figured might as well jump in. The above email seems to be ambigous, I would interpret it as 250% for all 5 stores? But people seem to be very concerned about posting dates which doesn't support the above email. I have done just today: Gaiam Thanks Again Planning to do: B&N Ebook FTD (gift for Mom) Track it Back if the other ones post. What is the last day I can order a Track It Back and still have the activity date before the end of promo? |
Originally Posted by vysean
(Post 12957161)
Clarification Regarding the Big Bonus Promotion:
Thanks to beaubo and Janet @ InsideFlyer, the following information has been provided from US Airways regarding this promotion (emphasis mine): Quote: For every different partner that Dividend Miles members shop that are listed on the promotion landing page (usairways.com/bigbonus) during the promotion period (11/23 - 12/30), members will be eligible for a bonus. The bonus is calculated on the number of DIFFERENT partners they shop with, up to 250% bonus on what the partner lists as their mileage offer. For example: If you were to shop just at Bose during the promotion period, your bonus would be 50% more of their 1,500 offer, so 2,250 total miles. If you were shop at Bose, FTD and Macy's, you be eligible for a 150% bonus on their offers. To ensure that we have all mileage postings from our partners, we will run the process to post all bonus miles due to our members on March 1, 2010. What ever level of bonus that is due to members will be applied to the FIRST 10 transactions (If you shopped at iTunes 3 times, that counts as 3 transactions), based on the partner's mileage posting timestamp, of transactions that occurred during the promotion period. Also, each Dividend Miles Shopping Mall merchant WILL count as a different transaction, and are eligible for increasing a bonus level. End Quote Hope this helps, thanks to Janet for working to clarify this and to beaubo for passing it along. I guess we can hang out hat on the last "clarifying" sentence even though it seems at odds with the first "clarifying" paragraph. (Apparently there is nothing special about B&N, Sears, etc. other than they get special treatment over the other Shopping Mall stores.) |
ShareBuilder 3000 miles posted! I set up an "automatic investment plan," but the miles posted before any deposit had even been posted. Does this mean I can cancel my deposit? :)
No postings yet from: 21st Century Insurance Barnes & Noble Sears ThanksAgain/restaurant.com pointsjunkie53, which 5 of the stores had already posted for you? I'm going to wait until at least 2 or 3 post before taking the TIB plunge... I still don't trust USAir enough to put thousands on the line. |
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