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Buying StuffHow to get the most miles for the buck you are going to spend anyway.First, if I can't make a deal for a cash discount, I always use a credit card that gives me frequent flyer miles whenever I can. Next, I receive extra miles for using the services below. And sometimes, using gift certificates, I can triple dip. (See the GiftCertificates.com section to see how this can works.)
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Shop On LineNever go directly to a store's on line shopping web site. Always check to see if that store is listed with one of the on line shopping portals below. The portal gives miles, and you usually are offered the same price.Find the best portal
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| Find the Best Portal |
You don't have to check each portal to see if your store is listed. There are web sites that do this for you. Since offers change so frequently, they are almost always out of date (as is my website), so you might miss an occasional miles earning opportunity by relying on them. Use them only as a starting point for finding the best deal, and please send the webmasters info about any errors you find. They all seem quite serious about trying to keep their info up to date. Here are the websites:
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| Cash Back Portals |
Below I list some of the better cash back portals, the ones that seem to me to offer the highest amounts of cash back. I suggest that you first use one, or better, all of the three cross reference websites I list above to find the best rebate. Then sign up for the rebate program. If the program you want to use is listed below, please use my link and/or instructions to sign up. By doing so, you help me at no cost to you. Thanks.
"Once you've logged in to the mall via the airline's website, you need to make sure to start and finish shopping in the same window if you wish to collect miles. If you open another window to comparison shop, or go to another site and then come back, you may lose your connection with the mileage mall and forfeit your chance to earn miles. When in doubt, re-enter the online store through the airline's site before adding items to your shopping cart, so you can be certain that your frequent flier number was captured and you'll be eligible for miles."
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| Airline Shopping Portals |
Some of the airlines have their own shopping programs.
American Airlines.
Amtrak Mall.
Alaska Airlines
Hawaiian Airlines
British Airways QANTAS.
Here is some info on Woolworths ezbanking debit card: Grupo Taca.
All Nippon Airways.
EgyptAir. Click on Our Partners in the left menu.
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| Hotel Shopping Portals |
Some of the hotel chains have their own shopping programs.
The Marriott Rewards Mall offers Marriott Rewards points for purchases. Points convert to miles on many airlines. GiftCertificates.com is one of the merchants listed here. See my writeup below on how to use these certificates to triple dip on miles. You may read about the Marriott Rewards program in the Points for Miles section of my Other Programs I Like page. Intercontinental Hotel's Priority Club offers the Priority Club Rewards Shopping Mall. Most merchants offer 2 to 6 points per $1 spent, and a few offer more. Priority Club points convert to miles on many airlines. You may read about the Priority Club program in the Points for Miles section of my Other Programs I Like page. Hilton Hotels features the HHonors Earnings Mall. I see offers from 3 to 15 points per $1 spent. Wyndham Hotel's Wyndham Rewards has a shop online page featuring a few familiar merchants. The program offers only 1 point/$1 spent. You could do better most anywhere else.
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| Other Online Shopping Programs |
Be sure to read the information in the GiftCertificates.com section on how to double and triple dip.
The SkyMall program lists a large number of merchants listed nowhere else. It is much more than the offerings you see in the magazine onboard your flight. All of the Miles for Clicking programs, described in the Click for Miles, Money, and Good Causes section of this web site offer points for shopping. MyPoints is particularly good.
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| GiftCertificates.com |
Note: For comparison purposes, GiftCertificates.com is a member of the Citi Dividend Merchant Network, offering 4% cash back on purchases last I looked. You may access this network by acquiring a Citi Dividend Platinum Select MasterCard, which you may read about in the Cash Back Cards section of the Free Cards page of my Credit Card section.
Here is a way to earn miles in two and possibly three places for one purchase. It is also a way to receive the most miles for your purchase for some vendors.
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| SkyMall and American, Continental, Delta, United, Northwest, Midwest, or Southwest Airlines, AirTran Airways, or Goldpoints or Marriott |
Skymall is a portal for a large number of online retailers. (Use the pull down menu to the right and click on View all stores). Last I heard, it guarantees that it's price will not be higher than that on the retailer's website.
Often Skymall has airline miles offers, and sometimes these offers are better than those of any other portal offering miles of use to you. And Skymall may be the only portal offering miles for the retailer of interest. So if you know which retailer from whom you want to buy a specific product, be sure to see if it is a SkyMall retailer. Then add the airline offers below to your list of portals for comparison. Note that the Skymall catalog that is in the pocket in front of your airline seat always lists the name of the retailer. However, there are many more retailers in SkyMall than are listed in that catalog. RewardsDB and Ev'reward maintain a list of SkyMall offers. Between them and me, we might have all of them. But please tell me about any you know about not listed below. Please provide the link to the offer. Thanks.
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| S&H greenpoints |
The S&H greenpoints shopping portal has resumed offering miles as rewards again. 11,900 Greenpoints gets you 500 miles on Delta Airlines. (Search rewards for "miles".) This represents a devaluation from 8,900 points for the same thing earlier in 2007. Since Greenpoints has shown a willingness to devalue it points without warning, I recommend conversion of those points as soon as you have enough for what you want. For comparison shopping, 1 mile costs 23.8 points. Most of the merchants seem to be offering 20 points per dollar spent, which gets you a not very impressive 0.84 mile per dollar spent. The list of merchants is large and familiar. Posting of points and rewarding of miles has been reliable in the past. This company has been around for a long time. Your parents probably remember S&H Green Stamps at their grocery store. (And in fact, you still can earn greenpoints at some grocery stores.)
You may read about the Greenpoints program in the Points to Miles section of myOther Programs I Like page.
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| AirMilesMart and American and Delta Airlines, U.S. Airways, and Starwood |
AirMilesMart usually offers 1 point per dollar spent, sometimes more, occasionally less, on a large list of familiar merchants, including GiftCertificates.com, Best Western, and Hotels.com.
The points are convertible one for one into the miles of American and Delta airlines, U.S. Airways, and into Starwood Starpoints. Minimum conversion amount is only 500 points, which is quite impressive. They are also convertible into $25, $50, and $100 gift certificates at a list of familiar stores at the rate of 1 cent per point. Apparently the points do not expire. I have had points in my account since 5/29/2002. Be sure to check out their Trial Offers section. Free miles for trying things, getting quotes, etc.
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| Thanks Again and United, Delta, Northwest, or Continental Airlines, or U.S. Airways |
Note: Everyone seeking U.S. Airways miles should sign up for its Grand Slam promotion to earn bonus miles for participation in partner offers through September 30, 2008.
Register 1 - 5 credit cards with Thanks Again and use it to make purchases at local merchants listed with the program to earn American, United, Delta, Northwest, or Continental Airlines, or U.S. Airways miles for the purchases, at the rate of 1 mile/$1 spent. Or earn 2% of your qualifying purchases at participating merchants back as cash deposited to a checking or savings account of your choice. Or donate that 2% to the Nature Conservancy. In response to my questions about the United miles in my account, I was promptly told by email that
Cautions:
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| S&H greenpoints |
The S&H greenpoints shopping portal has resumed offering miles as rewards again. 11,900 Greenpoints gets you 500 miles on Delta Airlines. (Search rewards for "miles".) This represents a devaluation from 8,900 points for the same thing earlier in 2007. Since Greenpoints has shown a willingness to devalue it points without warning, I recommend conversion of those points as soon as you have enough for what you want. For comparison shopping, 1 mile costs 23.8 points. Most of the merchants seem to be offering 20 points per dollar spent, which gets you a not very impressive 0.84 mile per dollar spent. The list of merchants is large and familiar. Posting of points and rewarding of miles has been reliable in the past. This company has been around for a long time. Your parents probably remember S&H Green Stamps at their grocery store. (And in fact, you still can earn greenpoints at some grocery stores.)
You may read about the Greenpoints program in the Points to Miles section of myOther Programs I Like page.
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| ClickRewards |
Caution: Recently there have been a large number of complaints about ClickRewards. Read this thread on FlyerTalk on the subject. On February 4, 2005, I sent them an email with a link to this thread and asking them to respond to it. The email did not bounce, but as of May 28, 2008, I received no reply. So you might want to consider using this portal only if your merchant is not listed on any other of use to you.
The ClickReward shopping portal has a large list of merchants offering 1 ClickMile per dollar spent, and many that offer 2 or more ClickMiles per dollar spent. GiftCertificates.com is listed as one of ClickRewards's vendors. (See my writeup below on how to use these certificates to triple dip on miles.) 500 ClickMiles (minimum) gets you 500 airlines miles on American Airlines. Merchandise is also offered for you ClickMiles. Your ClickMiles will expire automatically after 12 months of consecutive inactivity (no earning or redemption activity in your account during that period). Click here for info on the program, but please click here to enroll in it, so I can receive some referral credit at no cost to you (thanks).
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Newspaper and Magazine SubscriptionsNewspapers are now starting to offer miles for subscriptions, and you can buy both newspapers and magazines with miles, which could be a good use of orphan miles about to expire. I will list the offers I know about, but I rely on your with your local knowledge to tell me about the offers, especially from newspapers in your area. Links, phone numbers, and/or offer codes appreciated. Thanks.
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I do not intend to check these links regularly, and will list offers only as they come to me without much effort on my part. Please tell me about dead links, changed offers, and new offers. Please provide links and/or phone numbers for the latter. Thanks.
Note: This Flyertalk thread discusses airline Wall Street Journal offers from airlines through December, 2005. It is probably more up to date than my listings below. I linked to page 3 of the thread. Previous pages are probably out of date. If someone would like to search out the specific links for the offers mentioned and send them to me, and if they involve miles, I would be inclined to specifically list them here.
You can earn or redeem United Airlines miles for purchase of newspapers though its Reader Miles program. Over 50 newspapers are claimed. On February 27, 2007, the newspapers included
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Please tell me of any offers you know about that offer miles for subscribing to magazines
Alaska Airlines's MileagePlan Shopping lists ValueMags.com as one of its vendors. 1,200 magazines are claimed. On June 15, 2004, they were offering 8 Alaska Airlines Miles per $1 spent. Delta Airlines' shopping portal offers 20 miles per dollar spent on magazine subscriptions through Magazines.com. Rogers Magazine Service offers up to 1,350 Air Canada miles for purchase of magazine subscriptions. The Priority Club online mall lists ValueMags and Magazines.com as two of its vendors. On April 25, 2005, ValueMags was offering 22 points per $1 spent, and Magazines.com was offering 24 points per $1 spent. Lufthansa has a large number of offers for subscribing to or referring others to magazines. The referral offers are particularly lucrative, and often do not require that you be a subscriber. Many are for German residents only. Goldpoints offers 5,000 or 10,000 points for subscriptions to The Economist. My link is to the UK offer. Use the pulldown menu to find your country. SN Brussels Airlines offers miles for subscriptions to The Economist for new subscribers resident in Continental Europe and the Middle East and Africa. ACP Publishing offers 100 Qantas Frequent Flyer points for annual subscriptions less than A$80, and 200 Qantas Frequent Flyer points for annual subscriptions of A$80 and over, for a large number of magazines. Varig's promotions page is beginning to list miles offers for magazine subscriptions. AMANHÃ MAGAZINE was listed on February 25, 2005. Japan Airlines offers miles for subscriptions to a few magazines. PhoneHog usually lists magazine offers on your Personal Page. Search on "magazine". You may read what PhoneHog has to do with miles on my Telephone page in the Long Distance section.
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Redeem Delta, Northwest, American, Midwest, or Hawaiian Airlines, or U.S. Airways miles or Amtrak points for magazines or the Wall Street Journal or other newspapers through their Magazines for Miles programs. (Note: the same outfit services most of these airlines. This promises to be a growing thing. Please send me the links of similar programs for other airlines. Thanks.)
Milepoint allows redemption of miles on lots of airlines for magazines and the Wall Street Journal. Delta, American, and other airlines allow redemption of miles for a subscription of the Wall Street Journal. (800) 961-8702 (from an old post on FlyerTalk. The offer code is VNF. 64 issues for 1,000 miles. This number is for Delta Airlines, but they can handle other airlines or can give you the number for them. Another old post on FlyerTalk said that the number for American Airlines is (800) 961-8669. If these numbers don't work, try 800-250-3525. You may have to call these numbers several times until you get what you want. Please tell me whether or not any of these numbers still work. There is not enough time in my life to personally check them out. Starwood StarPoints allows redemption of points for a Wall Street Journal subscription. Note: A reader tells me you can receive a year for 8,750 points if you call them, instead of the 9,450 point listed on their web site. Hilton HHonors allows redemption of points for a Wall Street Journal subscription. Many of Lufthansa's magazine and newspaper offers allow you to redeem miles for subscriptions. MyPoints. MyPoints offers free business magazines from FreeBizMag, and offers MyPoints for doing so. (Earn Points > Quick List by Merchant > FreeBisMag). Occasionally I am offered a free Wall Street Journal Subscription after signing up for business magazines. You may read about the MyPoints program on my Miles for Clicking page. An old post on FlyerTalk said "Sign up for a trade magazine (he was referring to freebizmag.com) and use 1,300 FF miles to get 3 months of the WSJ. They accept most major airlines, but no Alaskan Air". On June 7, 2007, a reader told me this still works for United Airlines miles. Please tell me if this still works. A very old post on FlyerTalk lists the following phone numbers for redeeming miles for magazines. Please tell me which numbers still work. There is not enough time in my life to try them all. (Note: On September 10, 2004, a helpful reader told me that they all still work.)
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Automobile Purchase and ServicesWhen I bought my Subaru Forester in 1999, I found many programs that offered mega-miles for buying through their referral services and for obtaining a loan for that purchase. However, none of them gave me a price that close enough to the lowest price I could find to make them worthwhile. Maybe you can be more lucky. Or perhaps you could negotiate a lower price or lower loan rate by offering to give up the miles. In April, 2002, a sales manager for a VW dealer told me that the 10,000 miles offered by the United Airlines program cost her $400. Wow! So offer $400 less to forgo the miles. See my section on Value of Miles to see why the 10,000 miles are nowhere near worth $400.When I purchased the VW, I was able to put a substantial part of the price on my mileage producing credit card. I asked to do this after I negotiated the price, of course. Please tell me about any particularly good miles producing auto buying, loan, or services programs you find. Thanks. Note: Automobile loans and insurance offers can be found on my Finance page.
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| Automobile Purchase |
You can usually find the programs through the web site of your favorite airline. Look for the partners of its frequent flyer program. Here are the programs I know of:
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| Thanks Again for Auto Repair and Service and Many Airlines |
For automobile repair and service Thanks Again offers 2 miles/$1 spent on United, Delta, Northwest, or Continental Airlines, or U.S. Airways. In August, 2008, the repair shops seemed to be limited to the Denver/Colorado Springs area, but more dealers were promised.
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| Tesoro Petroleum and Many Airlines |
Tesoro Petroleum offers stamps with purchase of gasoline. Those stamps are convertible to free fuel or miles on Alaska, Hawaiian, Delta, or Northwest Airlines.
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| Albina Automated Fueling (Pacific Pride) |
Albina Automated Fueling offers an unspecifed number of American or Alaska Airlines miles for purchase of gasoline at its Pacific Pride automated stations throughout the U.S. and Canada.
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| Air Canada - Esso, Exxon, and Mobil |
Air Canada offers 1 mile/$3 spent with your Esso Speedpass at Esso stations in Canada and Exxon or Mobil stations in the U.S.
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| Cathay Pacific Asia Miles and Petro-Canada |
Petro-Canada's PETRO-POINTS convert to Cathay Pacific Asia Miles at 10,000 points for 1,000 miles. You earn 10 points per $1 at Petro-Canada stations on gasoline, car washes, repairs, snacks, drinks and certain other items in their convenience stores. It's not clear to me, but it appear that you can also convert Sears Club Points to PETRO-POINTS, and then convert those to miles.
In addition, save 2 cents per liter instantly using the no annual fee Citi PETRO-POINTS Mastercard to pay for that gasoline. See the Free Cards page of my Credit Card section to read more about this card. See my Registrations page for more ways to earn PETRO-POINTS.
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| Cathay Pacific and Gasoline |
You can earn Cathay Pacific's Asia Miles for buying Esso or Mobil gasoline in Hong Kong and Singapore. Details.
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Asiana and SK |
A card offering Asiana miles for purchase of gasoline at SK was listed on Asiana's website on July 20, 2008.
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Mobil Guam/Saipan and Continental Airlines |
The points earn on a Smiles card for Mobil Gasoline purchases in Guam/Siapan can be converted to Continental Airlines miles. Details.
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| Lufthansa and Automobile Clubs |
Lufthansa's website lists offers for automobile club membership in ADAC (2,000 miles) and Automobilclub von Deutschland (4,000 miles).
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| Top Service Team and Lufthansa |
See the Top Service Team - Lufthansa tire offer described below.
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| Safeway, Vons, Dominick's, Pak’n Save, Pavilions, Genuardi’s, Carrs or Eagle stores and United and Alaska Airlines and QANTAS |
Safeway, Vons, Dominick's, Pak’n Save, Pavilions, or Genuardi's grocery stores, offer 125 United Airlines miles for every $250 spent. You are offered those miles if you shop at any of these stores, regardless of where you got the card. (So be sure to take your card with you when you travel.) To enroll:
Special offers:
Some Safeway, Carrs and Eagle stores, offer as and alternate to the United Airlines program 125 Alaska Airlines miles for every $250 spent.
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| Randall's Food and Pharmacy, Heinen's, and ShopRite and Continental or American Airlines |
Randall's Food & Pharmacy stores in Texas offer, 125 American Airlines or Continental Airlines mile per $250 spent.
Heinen's Fine Foods (northeast Ohio) offers 1 Continental Airlines mile per $2 spent at their stores using its Preferred Customer Card which you have registered for the miles. Thanks to Gary Leff from View from the Wing for this information. After you register your Price Plus Club card, 250 Continental Airlines Miles are offered for your first $500 spent at ShopRite, then 1 mile per $2 spent there thereafter.
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| Tom Thumb, Simon David, and American Airlines | 250 American Airlines mile per $250 spent are offered at Tom Thumb and Simon David stores (in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, I think). First complete and submit a Reward Card application at your local store, then enroll it into the American Airlines program here. Read the terms and conditions. The program expires December 31, 2007, but the application was still online on January 19, 2008. Ask.
A reader says about this program "Although the WEB site says no miles for Rx's, I do get those and a lot of them at that. You have to pay for Rx's at the pharmacy counter, if you use your Reward card, you get the AA miles. The same goes for gas purchases, although the WEB site says neither should get AA miles. The receipts give you a total of how close you are to getting another 250 AA 'award'. They post fast to your AA account."
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| Greenpoints and D’Agostino, Tidyman’s, County Market, Lowes Foods, Foodtown and Red Front groceries. | 10 Greenpoints/$1 spent can be earned at D’Agostino, Tidyman’s, County Market, Lowes Foods, Foodtown and Red Front groceries. Details.
Greenpoints can be converted to miles on various airlines. See the Points to Miles section of my Other Programs I Like page for details.
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| Groceries in Alaska Airlines' Markets | Alaska Airlines lists SeaMart in Alaska (Sitka) and Sentry in Oregon, and perhaps others, as grocery stores at which you can earn its miles.
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| Star Markets and Hawaiian Airlines | Star Markets in Hawaii offer 1 Hawaiian Airlines mile / $2 spent at their stores.
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| Hi Lo Food Stores (Trinidad) and Carribean Airlines | Caribbean Airlines' Caribbean Miles page says "Trinidad residents earn extra miles when shopping in Hi Lo food stores." Apparently this is via conversion of the store's Smart Shopper points. I have no further information about this.
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| Gift Cards and Grocery Stores | Some grocery stores are now offering gift cards for other merchants. Since Delta Airlines American Express credit cards earn double miles at grocery stores, and the Starwood American Express card essentially gets you 1.25 miles per dollar spent, consider buy the gift card for the merchant you want at the grocery store rather than paying the merchant directly for your purchase.
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| NetFlix and United, American, Delta, Northwest, and Continental Airlines, U.S. Airways, and Marriott Rewards and Priority Club |
Here is an easy way to earn an inexpensive 4,000 United Airlines miles:
NetFlix also offers
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| Satellite TV and Radio Service |
American Airlines offers 5,500 miles for activating new satellite TV service from DIRECT TV through its shopping portal.
Delta Airlines offers 5,000 miles for activating new satellite TV service from DIRECT TV or Dish Network. Look in the left menu for the link to the offer. United Airlines offers up to 5,000 miles for activating new satellite TV service from Dish Network. Look in the left menu for the link to the offer. "Up to" is defined at the bottom of the page you get. Continental Airlines offers 5,000 miles for activating new satellite TV service from Dish Network or Direct TV. Look in the left menu for the link to the offer. Alaska Airlines offers 5,000 miles for activating new satellite TV service from Dish Network or Direct TV. Look in the left menu for the link to the offers. Hawaiian Airlines offers 3 A+ Rewards Credit for activating new satellite TV service from Direct TV. Look in the left menu for the link to the offer. AirTran offers 5,000 miles for activating new satellite TV service from DIRECT TV or Dish Network. Look in the left menu for the link to the offer. Quest offers 5,000 Frontier Airlines miles for activating new satellite TV service from DIRECTV.
Northwest Airlines offers 5,000 miles for activating new satellite TV service from DIRECT TV or Dish Network. Look in the left menu for the link to the offer. Sirius Satellite Radio offers 2,500 American Airlines miles for for subscribing to its services.
XM Satellite Radio offers up to 3,000 Air Canada Aeroplan miles for subscribing to its services. To compare its miles offer to its non-miles offer, click here to see XM's home page.
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| Home Improvement programs |
Improvement Direct offers 3-5 United Airlines miles per $1 spent at any of the home improvement stores in its network.
e-counters.com offers 1 Delta Airlines mile/$1 spent (after rounding down to the nearest $100) on installed countertops. Home Hardware, Home Building Centre, Home Hardware Building Centre and Home Furniture offers 1 Air Canada mile/$2 spent.
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| Dry Cleaning programs |
American Airline's Miles4DryCleaning Program offers 1 mile/$1 spent. You must register first. Read all terms and conditions.
Special bonuses. If my link doesn't work, use the one on the page you get from the Miles4DryCleaning Program link above.
Delta Airlines' SkyMiles Clothing Care is an exclusive group of dry cleaners that provides you one mile for every dollar spent. Just register a credit or debit card and use it to pay the bill at participating dry cleaners. It works like the iDine programs.
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| Wine Programs |
Many of the airline and points shopping portals list wine offers.
I intend to list non-portal offers, especially those offering bonus miles or points for signup. Minimum price per bottle seems to be around $10 plus shipping. I have no idea if the prices are competitive. I refuse to learn to be a wine connoisseur - too expensive. I would never pay $10 for a bottle of wine. Bulk wine tastes fine to me. Hartwick and Grove Wine Merchants offers 5 United Airlines miles/$1 spent.
Vinesse Wine Clubs offers miles or points for joining any of its wine clubs.
Wine Insiders offers 1,000 U.S. Airways miles when you enroll in the California Wine Club, plus 4 miles/$1 spent on the program.
Winsor Vinyards offers 250 Alaska Airlines miles per 6 bottle purchase. The Hawaiian Wine Club offers 200 Hawaiian Airlines miles per month of membership. The Exclusive Clubs of Beverage Bistro offers
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| Aquasana water filters and Delta Airlines |
Aquasana offers 680 - 10,000 Delta Airlines miles for purchase of its water filters. I use a much less expensive Teldine Waterpick on my kitchen tap to filter chlorine taste out of my otherwise quite safe tap water - beats the much more expensive bottled water in environmentally terrible plastic containers. Brita also sells similar inexpensive filters. I list the Aquasana offer here in case you determine that they have significant advantages over the less expensive ones, and to encourage you to use some sort of filter instead of buying bottled water.
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| Air Canada and Quaker, Tropicana or Propel |
Canadians can earn 25 Aeroplan Miles with every specially marked Quaker, Tropicana or Propel purchase through December 31, 2008. Details. Read them.
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| U.S. Airways and DHL | DHL Express offers 2 U.S. Airways miles/$1 spent spent on ShipReady prepaid envelopes, and 750 bonus miles with your first DHL purchase. Plus you get two free envelopes with your first order.
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| Hawaiian Airlines Off Line Shopping Opportunities | Hawaiian Airlines offers 5 bonus HawaiianMiles per dollar when you use your Hawaiian Airlines Visa Cards at any participating HawaiianMiles Supercharged Merchant. There are a large number of these merchants in Hawaii. You can read about the Hawaiian Airlines Credit Card on the Annual Fee Cards page of my Credit Card section.
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| Alaska Airlines and Folding Kayak Adventures | Folding Kayak Adventures offers
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| Alaska Airlines Off Line Shopping Opportunities | Alaska Airlines lists a huge number of off line merchants in its market area (Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Canada, Mexico, and nationwide) who offer its miles for patronizing their businesses. I do not intend to keep up with this list, but it is well worth a look if you live in these areas. Grocery stores, fuel, lodging, and many other types of businesses are listed.
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| Continental Airlines SkyMall offer while flying | I have an email from Continental Airlines dated July 16, 2004, that says
"Now earn 15 miles for every dollar spent with SkyMall by simply using the convenient SkyMall/OnePass Onboard Order Form while flying on Continental Airlines. It's the rewarding way to make those hard-to-find items your own.If you are flying on a Continental flight, no doubt this offer will be announced if it is still in effect. If it is not announced, please ask and then tell me what you find out. (I fly Continental as little as possible.) Thanks.
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| EBay - MyPoints offers |
EBay offers 100 MyPoints for registering and making your first purchase, and 2 points/$1 spent on eBay purchases. On your MyPoints home page, use the Select by Merchant pulldown menu to find eBay.
You may read about MyPoints and what it has to do with miles on my Click for Miles, Money, and Good Causes page.
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| Asiana Airlines Off Line Shopping Opportunities |
Asiana lists a few off line merchants, mostly in Korea, who offer its miles for patronizing their businesses. I do not intend to keep up with this list, but it is worth a look if you live in Korea. A card offering miles for purchase of gasoline was listed on May 30, 2006.
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| CocaCola and Delta Airlines and Hilton HHonors |
The MyCokeRewards program offers points for purchasing CocaCola products. The points may be redeemed for various goodies, which have included off-and-on availability of Delta Skymiles, Hilton HHonors Points, Intercontinental Hotels Priority Points, and car-rental freebies. The program has been extended through 2008. There is a Flyertalk discussion on this program which will always be considerably more up to date than anything I post here about it.
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Sealy Posturepedic Beds - American Airlines
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Sealy Posturepedic Beds offers 1,500 to 12,500 American Airlines miles for buying one of their beds. Details. Read them.
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| Sam's Club | The only credit cards Sam's Club accepts are Mastercard and the Discover Card. But Sam's Club does accept Wal-mart gift certificates. So to earn miles shopping at Sam's Club using a miles earning Visa or American Express card, first buy a gift certificate at Wal-mart using your miles producing credit card, and then use the certificate at Sam's Club. Sam's Club also accepts debit cards for PIN based transactions, only. A very few of these cards earn miles for such transactions (Bank of America comes to mind), though usually at a lesser rate than do miles producing credit cards.
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| Top Service Team - Lufthansa Tire Offer | If you lease a car in Germany or Austria, you probably qualify for this Lufthansa offer for purchase of tires from Top Service Team. The number of miles offered is not specified, but is described as "fantastic".
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| All Nippon Airways Off Line Shopping Opportunities | All Nippon Airways lists a off line merchants in Japan who offer its miles for patronizing their businesses.
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| FlyBuys for Residents of Australia | The Fly buys shopping loyalty program for Australia looks very good. It is absolutely free, and offers points for any purchase over $5 at a large number of popular merchants in Australia. Also, you can link a National Credit Card to your Fly buys account and earn points for every purchase. The points you earn are convertible to airline tickets and other goodies, or can by turned into dollar credits to your National Credit Card.
Since the program is free, and its cost is already built into the prices you would pay anyway, there is no reason to not join the program. There is an ongoing discussion on the Fly buys program on The Australian Frequent Flyer Bulletin Board.
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| Air Miles for Dutch shoppers | A reader writes: "Air Miles is a general Dutch points for purchase program in which ELM participates, but it's owned by a 3rd party. You can earn Air miles at major banks, shops, gas stations, etc. Typically you earn 1 air mile per euro spent and the typical value is 1 cent. Double dipping and offers may approve the value at times."
I am unable to evaluate this program, since its website is in a language I am unable to read. I know that KLM offers different numbers of miles on this and its own programs for its flights, so do the math before you decide which. |