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.)

Find the best portal
Cash Back Portals
Airline Shopping Portals
Hotel and Amtrak Shopping Portals
Other Miles Earning Shopping Portals. Some of these often give the best deals. Don't miss reading about them.

• RewardsDB.com . Andrew Cram's outstanding cross reference table, looking more like a fully fledged searchable database these days.
• FrequentFlier Mile Search . Another promising new cross reference system from FrequentFlier.com. Search by merchant or category.
• WebFlyer Mileage Mall Search . Search by mall, merchant, or category. Powered by evreward.

• Cash back portals often have minimums you must earn before they will give you your money.
• Cash back portals often charge a fee to give you your money.
• Both cash back and miles portals will often delay crediting payment or miles for up to several months to accommodate merchants' return period. None will pay you until they are paid.
• Some of the cash back programs also show coupon codes for discounts from the merchant. These offers usually are not listed on the cross reference website I list above. Serious shoppers must check with each cash back program to find these discounts.
• Cash back portals often have referral programs by which you can earn money for referring people who then actually purchase something through the portal, at no cost to the person referred.
• For any type of portal, you must first log in to get credit, then click to the merchant via the links within the portal, and then complete your order before going to any other website. Don't shop elsewhere until you have completed your order.

• BigCrumbs
  • Often the best rebate rates, plus rebates for your purchases at E-bay.
  • Especially good is the travel section. A very large number of popular merchants are listed, including Travelocity, Enterprise Car Rental, Inercontinental Hotels Group (Priority Club), Motel 6, Hotels.com, Hotwire, Priceline, Jet Blue, Magelans, TravelSmith, Lonely Planet, and many others.
  • All payments via PayPal.
  • Payments monthly, automatically.
  • No minimum for payment. 2% fee, to a maximum of $1 per payment. That's 2% of what they owe you, not 2% of purchase prices. Maximum $10,000 per payment.
  • You can shop by store or category.
  • Special Offers page.
  • A very good referral system. Prior to April 2, 2010, BigCrumbs offered two membership types: CrumbSaver and CrumbEarner. These two membership types had different cash back and referral commission structures. However, on April 2, 2010, BigCrumbs consolidated its program into one membership type. All members now earn the same high cash back rates, plus referral commissions on those whom they directly refer, as well as members referred by their direct referrals.
  • When you sign up for this program, please enter pgary in the Referrer box near the bottom of the page. This will help me at no cost to you. Thanks.
• Shop at Home
  • Frequently the best rebate rate.
  • $5 bonus for joining.
  • $20 minimum to receive payment.
  • 50 cent fee for payment.
  • Payments quarterly by check, automatically.
  • $5 per person you refer who makes a purchase within 30 days of the date of the referral.
  • You can shop by store, category, or specific product.
  • When you sign up for this program, please enter 1737.pgary.website@earthlink.net in the box near the bottom of the page requesting the email address of the person who referred you. This will help me at no cost to you. Thanks.
• Mr. Rebates
  • $2.50 bonus for joining.
  • $25 minimum to receive payment.
  • No fee for payment that I can see.
  • Payments monthly by check or PayPal, when you request it.
  • Referral program.
  • You can shop by store, category, or specific product.
  • Please use this link to sign up. Also, please be sure that 1737.pgary.website@earthlink.net appears in the Referral Email Address box near the bottom of the form. This will help me at no cost to you. Thanks.
• BeFrugal.com
  • Rebates for purchases (they say average 5%), plus an extensive listing of coupons.
  • $25 minimum to receive payment.
  • No fee for payment that I can see.
  • Payments by check or PayPal, when you request it.
  • Referral program - $5/referral, or $10/referral if 3 or more referrals. Referral payments are processed once/quarter.
  • Please use this link to sign up. This will help me at no cost to you, even if you buy nothing. Thanks.
• MSN Live Search Cashback
  • $5 minimum for payment.
  • Cash back is held for 60 days in case you return the item.
  • Payments issued approximately 14 days after request.
  • No referral program.
  • Click on the How This Works link, then on the Frequently Asked Questions link to see how the system works.
• FatWallet
  • $10 minimum for payment by check; no minimum via PayPal.
  • Payments weekly, when you request them.
  • You can shop by store, category, or specific product.
  • No referral program.
• Great Canadian Rebates
  • For Canadian shoppers only.
  • Referral program.
  • $3 minimum for payout.
  • Cash Back Rebates are paid every two months by cheque or can be directly deposited into your PayPal account.
• Amazon.com:
  • If you have the execellent Ink Bold® Business Card or the Ink Plus® Business Card, you can earn 5 Chase Ultimate Rewards points/$1 spent at Amazon buy buying its gift cards at an office supply store like Office Depot, OfficeMax, or Staples.
  • Cash back to Tamalpais High School from Amazon.com. I retired as a math teacher from Tamalpais High school more years ago than I care to admit. Apparently the school has a rather amazing deal wherein it receives 10% of the amount you purchase (all purchases and not just the books!). As a former math teacher, I do hope there is not a decimal point error there. But if you have no better way to shop at Amazon, this method is well worth doing. Tam High is a very good school.
    • Click here to see the offer and shop at Amazon.
    • I hope this is only one of many educational opportunities for support of schools by Amazon. Please check the website of your school and school district, and tell me of any similar offers you find. Please include a link to the offer, so I can list it here. Thanks.
  • Sierra Club. Cash back to Sierra Club from Amazon.com. Various chapters of the Sierra Club have can earn a bit of money if you shop Amazon.com through their links, at no extra cost to you:
    • San Francisco Bay Chaper Sierra Club: Info. Link.
    • New Hampshire Sierra Club, Info. Link.
    • Forth Worth Sierra Club. Info. Link.
    • Dallas Sierra Club. Info. Link.
    • Please send me info and direct links to Amazon.com from other Sierra Club chapters. Thanks.
  • Greyhound Adoption Kennel. Scroll down to the banner about a third of the way down the page, or do a word search on "Amazon". It shows with my IE browser, but not with my Firefox.
  • Please tell me of any similar offers you find from good causes. Please include a link to the offer, so I can list it here. 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."

American Airlines

• Register your credit or debit cards to earn miles for shopping at selected offline retailers and catalogs. This appears to be a good double dip opportunity.
• Bonus page.
• GiftCertificates.com is one of the merchants listed here. Incredibly, you can buy a gift certificate from GiftCertificates.com for American Airlines here, thus providing a wonderful opportunity to triple dip. See my writeup above on how to do this.

• Retail and Gifts page. If my link to this doesn't work, go to www.aa.com, then in the left menu hover over AAdvantage > Partners & Mileage Programs, and click on Retail and Gifts.

• AAdvantage eShopping mall Canada.

• Also check to see if your vendor is in the Skymall program described below

Delta Airlines Mall.

• GiftCertificates.com is listed as one of Delta's vendors. See my writeup above on how to use these certificates to triple dip on miles.
• Delta's website lists other shopping offers and bonuses:
  • Shopping & Other Partners
  • Limited Time Offers
• Also check to see if your vendor is in the Skymall program described below

United Airlines Mileage Plus Shopping.

• Any time you shop through the new Mileage Plus Shopping website or when you use a registered credit or debit card with participating retailers, whether online, at retail stores, or through retail catalogs, you'll earn award miles.
  • The list of retailers is huge.
  • Note that if an online retailer has a local store, you can now both get the miles and avoid the shipping charges.
  • Presumably you get both the miles United promises and whatever your credit card use would ordinarily give you.
• Bonus offer: To qualify for 250 bonus award miles, sign up and stay enrolled in Mileage Plus Shopping special offer emails for at least 30 days. The opportunity to sign up for emails appears after you log in with your United Airlines Mileage Plus account number.
• GiftCertificates.com is listed as one of United's vendors. See my writeup above on how to use these certificates to triple dip on miles.
• Also see United's Promotions: Retail, Gifts and Flowers page.
• Also check to see if your vendor is in the Skymall program described below.

U.S. Airways.

• Register for a 25% - 100% U.S. Airways miles bonus for purchases April 22 – June 23, 2013. Note the list of participating partners is more than just the Dividend Miles StoreFront.
• Preferred members of the U.S. Airways miles program are U.S. Airways.offered a bonus for purchases:
  • Silver Preferred - 25%
  • Gold Preferred - 50%
  • Platinum Preferred - 75%
  • Chairman’s Preferred - 100%

Southwest Airlines

Hawaiian Airlines

• Be sure to download the HawaiianMiles Toolbar. Million Mile Secrets tells us how to earn up to 5,000 miles per month for doing searches on this toolbar (if you have nothing better to do), and how Hawaiian Airlines miles are becoming increasingly valuable, not only for trips to Hawaii, but also for trips to French Polynesia, tickets on Delta Airlines metal, tickets on Virgin Atlantic and Korean Air, and transfer to Hilton HHonors points. At the very least earning miles from the tool bar (1 mile/3 successful searches) keeps your Hawaiian Ailrines account active.

  Amazon.com is on the Hawaiian shopping portal as of December 7, 2012. So far as I know, this is the only airline or hotel portal that lists Amazon.

  • As of January 23, 2013, Hawaiian Airline miles are offered for Amazon.com purchases only in specific catetories. If this doesn't work for you, please consider shopping Amazon.com through one of the Sierra Club chapter links.

• Be sure to click on all five links in the menu just above the search box. For example, the XtraMiles Partners link brings you to a huge number of merchants in Hawaii offering miles for purchases when you use your Hawaiian Airlines® Visa® Card. (You can read about that card on my Credit Cards > Annual Fee Cards page.)

JetBlue.

• To access the ShopTrue mall, log on to your TrueBlue account and click the ShopTrue link located on the TrueBlue summary page.

Virgin America

• The Red Store (Operated by SkyMall)
• The Elevate-Partners-Shopping page.

Spirit Airlines.

Air Canada Aeroplan.

British Airways

• For U.K. residents.
• For U.S. residents.

Virgin Atlantic.

Lufthansa

QANTAS.
Qantas offers miles through conversion of points from a range of competing bank credit card programs, each of which has separate bonus partners. Andrew Cram's excellent Frequent Flyer Resources has a page with a table listing the bonus partners for Qantas, ANZ Rewards Visa, Woolworths Ezyrewards Mastercard & Eftpos, Citibank Credit Cards, Westpac Altitude Cards as well as Flybuys, which can be redeemed for flights.

Here is some info on Woolworths ezbanking debit card:

• List of stores
• Point conversion info

Grupo Taca.
This program offers numerous opportunities to transfer Puntos from other shopping programs in Latin America to miles.

All Nippon Airways.
Programs both in the U.S. and in Japan. Also, starting July 1, 2004, you will be able to exchange miles and points between the airline and internet shopping site operator Rakuten Inc. Read the details here. Thanks to Gary Leff from View from the Wing for this information. Note: On February 9, 2005, a reader sent me this link to info on the deal. Alas, it is in Japanese, so I can't read it to verify that this is what it is. He says a bit of a translation to English can be found here.

Malaysia Airlines.

EgyptAir. Click on Our Partners in the left menu.

The ChoicePrivileges Mall offers Choice Hotels 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 ChoicePrivileges program in the Points to Miles, esp. Hotels, section of my Other Programs I Like page.

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 to Miles, esp. Hotels, 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 to Miles, esp. Hotels, section of my Other Programs I Like page.

Hilton Hotels lists two places for shopping online that earn Hilton HHonors points:

• Shop-to-earn
• Hilton HHonors shopping and dining page

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.

Amtrak Mall.

• Amtrak's Earn Points for Purchases page lists some additional merchants offering Amtrak points for purchases.

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.

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.

1. Find GiftCertificates.com on a shopping portal that offers miles. Andrew Cram's RewardsDB.com maintains a pretty good list of these portals, so I will no longer maintain a list here. Often the miles you earn here will exceed the miles you would receive by shopping directly through a portal.
2. Buy a gift certificate for yourself from them for the vendor from which you want to buy something. (This Flyertalk thread indicates there is now a $2 charge for electronic certificates, so this process will no longer be cost effective for small denomination certificates.)
3. Find that vendor on a portal that offers miles and buy, using your gift certificate. (A reader tell me that there is no reason why this portal can't be the same one through which you bought the gift certificate.) It is possible, but not a sure bet, that you will receive miles from the portal, also.
4. And of course, use your mileage producing credit card to make the purchase.

• If you go though the right shopping portal, you can buy gift certificates for varioius hotel chains. Log into your favorite miles or points producing portal listing GiftCertificates.com, buy a gift certificate for a hotel stay at one of these properties, then use it for a stay. Earn miles or points for buying the certificate, using your credit card to do so, and for the stay itself.

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.

Get-Coupon-Code.com, 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.

• First use your favorite skymall airline link below, then, at the checkout page, try entering one or more of these codes for a possible further discount. If that doesn't work and the discount is worth more than than the miles you would get, just place your order directly at www.skymall.com and try for the discount again.
  • MCQ19 for free standard delivery.
  • A search on "Skymall coupon code" yields many promising results.
• Southwest Airlines
• American Airlines.
  Special offers:
  • As of January 16, 2012, BigCrumbs was offering 4% cash back on SkyMall purchases. You can find the offer after joing BigCrumbs and clicking on Online Retailers on the Shop page, then on the letter S. Do the math to see if the 4% is better than the miles you can get from the offers below. You may read about the excellent Big Crumbs cash back shopping portal above,
  • Delta Airlines.
  • U.S. Airways.
    • Register for a 25% - 100% U.S. Airways miles bonus for purchases April 22 – June 23, 2013 at SkyMall and several other vendors.
    • This U.S. Airways website page offers 5 miles/$1 spent instead of the usual 3 miles, apparently by shopping through the U.S. Airways shopping portal. Strange. Please tell me when this changes. Thanks.
  • Alaska Airlines
  • AirTran
    • As of February 21, 2010, my link above takes you to the standard offer of 1/2 credit/$100 spent. This link takes you to an offer of 1/4 credit/$50 spent.
  • United Airlines
  • Marriott

   

• See my writeup below on how to use GiftCertificates.com to triple dip on miles.
• The Best Western listing also gives an obvious and straightforward triple dip opportunity - AirMilesMart, credit card, and hotel points. Hmm. I wonder if you can pay for the room with a gift certificate...
• Interestingly, though AirMilesMart says you get 1 point/$1 spent at GiftCertificates.com, the terms and conditions say you can't get points for gift certificates. I haven't tested this.

The points are convertible one for one into the miles of 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.

According to this flyertalk discussion, the company's customer service response is terrible, but the miles or points do get posted, eventually.

• Thanks Again has added an online mall.
• You must accrue at least 100 miles before Thanks Again sends a transfer over to an airline, and
• We ask that you allow 6-8 weeks for your miles to post to your United Mileage Plus account. It is usually faster than that, however.
• Each time you spend $200 with a participating merchant over a 60 day period, you'll get 200 bonus miles.
• If you can do at least 25 referrals, perhaps through your website, join the Thanks Again Affiliate Program to earn $1/referral and $0.25 for each referral done by your referrals. Minimum payout is $25.

Cautions:

• Thanks Again runs the Delta Airlines Skymiles Clothing Care program. If you join that program, you are automatically a Thanks Again member, and thus cannot join again for another bonus, if offered. However, if you join Thanks Again under another airline, you may still join the Delta Clothing Care program and get bonuses for both, if offered. You must use different credit cards and different login names to do this.
• If you are uncomfortable registering a credit card with this new program, consider registering a card with a very low credit limit, a Visa or Mastercard gift card with a very low balance on it, or even a single use card.

You may read about the Greenpoints program in the Points to Miles section of my Other Programs I Like page.

Earn Miles for Newspaper Subscriptions

Newspaper	Award	Contact
Wall Street Journal	1000 Delta Airlines miles (with Delta Business Credit Card)	Click
Wall Street Journal	6 Delta Airlines miles/$1 spent	Click
Wall Street Journal	6 United Airlines miles/$1 spent	Click
Wall Street Journal	1000 or 2000 Hilton HHonors points	Click
Wall Street Journal	2 ClickMiles from ClickRewards per dollar spent	Click
Financial Times (U.S.)	2,000 Hilton HHonors points	Click
USA Today	1,500 American Airlines miles, plus 100 miles every 4 weeks. (For AA Elite members.)	Click Flyertalk discussion
USA Today	1,000 American Airlines miles, plus 100 miles every 4 weeks. (For the rest of us.)	Click
USA Today	1,000 U.S. Airways miles plus 100 miles/4 weeks	Click
USA Today	1,000 Hilton HHonors points plus 400 point/week 4900/year max	Click
USA Today e-Edition	13,000 Hilton HHonors points	Click
USA Today	1,000 Priority Club points, plus 300 points every 4 weeks	Click or (800) USA-0001 promo code 558
USA Today e-Edition	100 Priority Club points for trial, plus 400 points every 4 weeks	Click or (800) USA-0001 promo code 558
Philadelphia Inquirer or Daily News	1,000 U.S. Airways miles, plus 100 miles every 4 weeks	Click
San Francisco Chronicle	5 or 10 United Airlines miles per dollar spent	Click
The Charlotte Observer	2,100 U.S. Airways miles the first year	Click
Honolulu Star Bulletin	2,500 or 1,000 Hawaiian Airlines miles	Click
The Telegraph for U.K. residents	4,500 British Airways Avios	Click
FINANCIAL TIMES DEUTSCHLAND	5,000 Lufthansa miles, plus 1,000 miles/month.	Click
Frankfurter Rundschau	12,000 Lufthansa miles for referral, 1000 for subscription. (Just refer your spouse?) German residents only.	Click
ASAHI Shimbun International Sat elite Edition	1,000 All Nippon Airways miles plus 1,000 miles if a subscriber refers a new subscriber	Click

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

• The Wall Street Journal
• Washington Post
• Chicago Tribune
• Denver Post
• Los Angeles Times
• San Francisco Chronicle
• Dallas Morning News (redeem only)
• Newsday

Earn Miles for Magazine Subscriptions

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.

Hawaiian Airlines's magazine mileage awards offer a minimum of 240 miles per paid subscription. A large number of magazines are offered.

MyBonusCenteroffers Delta Airlines miles for magazine subscriptions.

Rogers Magazine Service offers up to 1,000 Air Canada Aeroplan 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.

Hilton's online shopping portal offers Hilton HHonors points for magazine purchases.

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.

Redeem Miles for Newspaper and Magazine Subscriptions

• Delta Airlines.
• American Airlines. (If that doesn't work, try this. And for the Wall Street Journal, post #10 in this thread on FlyerTalk says you can spend 1,200 American Airlines miles for a 3 month subscription by calling (888) 321-6247 and use code ESS.)
• United Airlines miles. (Newspapers only, via the Reader Miles program described above.)
• Hawaiian Airlines for newspapers, then click on the link Redeem for Newspapers. The offers vary by zip code. For my San Francisco Bay Area zip code, the Wall Street Journal and the San Francisco Chronicle were offered on November 13, 2008.
• Hawaiian Airlines for a few magazines and the Wall Street Journal.
• U.S. Airways.
• AirTran.
• Priority Club.
• Amtrak.

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.)

• Alaska Mileage Plan: 800-861-1470
• American Express Mileage Rewards: 800-297-3276
• America West FlightFund: 800-961-8505
• American AAdvantage: 800-961-8669
• British Airways Executive Club: 800-586-9309
• Delta SkyMiles: 800-961-8702
• United Mileage Plus: 800-961-8723

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.

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:

• DealerMiles. This one is a new voucher program for miles at any of nine major airlines for buying a car, and sometimes for buying automobile service. Miles offered seem to vary with the dealer.

• 2,000 SN Brussels Airlines miles for test driving a new Saab 9-3, 9-5 or convertible at your local Belgian Saab dealership, and 18,000 miles for purchasing it. No expiration date mentioned. Please tell me if the offer changes or disappears. Thanks.

• All Nippon Airways has programs that offer miles for buying and selling cars in Japan, and parking them at airports in Japan.

• 100,000 HHonors Points when you purchase any MINI in Singapore from Eurokars Habitat Pte Ltd through January 31, 2014. (Via Frequent Flyer Bonuses.)

   

Thanks Again for Auto Repair and Service and Many Airlines

Select Warranty and U.S. Airways

Albina Automated Fueling (Pacific Pride)

Air Canada - Esso, Exxon, and Mobil

Asiana and SK

Lufthansa and Automobile Clubs

Top Service Team and Lufthansa

Grocery Stores

I rely on your with your local knowledge to tell me about the offers from grocery stores in your area. Thanks.

The Points Guy tells us how to get 1,000 British Airways Avios points for a $50 purchase at Safeway. Please tell me when this offer disappears. Thanks.

Alaska Airlines lists SeaMart in Alaska (Sitka) and Sentry in Oregon, and perhaps others, as grocery stores at which you can earn its miles.

Greenpoints can be converted to miles on various airlines. See the Points to Miles section of my Other Programs I Like page for details.

Other Shopping Loyalty Programs

This offer cannot be combined with any other offers or discounts except for 5% discount to Managed Care patients. If you register using your Dividend Miles account, your miles will post to your Dividend Miles account 8-10 weeks after your appointment. Offers void where prohibited by law. Offer not valid if treatment occurs in the state of NY, VA, or TX. Other states may also have limitations. The 1,000 and 24,000 mile offers will only be awarded once per member regardless of account credited. LasikPlus reserves the right to terminate this offer at any time and refuse or recover any promotion award if LasikPlus determines that it was obtained under wrongful or fraudulent circumstances. To receive 1,000 miles for the LASIK Vision Exam (a.k.a. pre-op appointment), customer must complete the entire exam, including dilation to determine candidacy for laser vision correction. Customers are eligible to receive 1,000 miles for one LASIK Vision Exam, and 24,000 miles for one treatment only. Customers that have previously attended a pre-operative appointment or treatment at LasikPlus are not eligible to receive miles for attending a new LASIK Vision Exam, or treatment. The 25,000 miles represents 1,000 miles for completing one LASIK Vision Exam, and 24,000 for completing treatment. To receive miles for an appointment of any kind, the patient must submit their US Airways Dividend Miles number and signed HIPAA consent form before that appointment begins.

You can earn miles or points for U.S. Air, Delta, Starwood, and Best Buy for answering trivia questions from Audience Rewards. They change sporadically. Two miles or points each (sometimes 20), for five or so questions which change irregularly. You may participate in all of the programs if you have a different Audience Rewards account for each. Just use a different email address for each. If you have multiple programs in the same Audience Rewards account, see post number 547 on this Flyertalk thread to fix this. Else, you will not be able to answer the same question in multiple accounts.

In addition, you earn 2 ShowPoints per question. This post on flyertalk says "If you have 2500 Show Points you can exchange them into miles at Points.com. As we all know the ratio is not great, but if you're never going to use the Show Points it's the best way."

When you sign up for each program, use different email addresses, and be sure to record your Audience Rewards account numbers. Then, for the Delta questions, log in using your Delta account number in the upper left corner before answering the questions. For the U.S. Airways, Starwood, and Best Buy questions, first answer the first question, then click on the very bottom link of the pop up to log into your Audience Rewards account using your Audience Rewards account numbers, not your account numbers for U.S. Airways, Starwood, and Best Buy. If this doesn't work, your cookies probably say you are logged in. Go to https://www.audiencerewards.com/redeemcenter/index.cfm and log out. Then click on the appropriate link below.

Get a Best Buy account number here. Click on GET STARTED in the yellow box. Best Buy points can be converted to miles via Points.com. Update: Post number 630 on this flyertalk thread says that Best Buy Reward Zone no longer lets you transfer points out to other programs on points.com. However, a reader told me he transferred Best Buy points on September 29. Please tell me if you can confirm or deny this. Thanks.

When I post answers here I will mention that I have done so on my What's New page. To be notified of the new answers simply subscribe to the service mentioned on that page that sends you an email whenever I post something to that page. Note: The author of the blog InACents says he intendes to keep up with the questions and answers on his blog. His answers are usually correct, but not always. However, if an error is found, it is promptly corrected. I suggest you wait a few days after his post before using his answers. I actually check my answers by entering them into the contest before posting them here, but I will not be posting them while I am traveling.

Be sure to log out at https://www.audiencerewards.com/redeemcenter/index.cfm before going to the next program.

Do not answer any of the Showpoints-only questions until after you've done all the 2+2 partner points questions. Once a Showpoints question has been answered in one program, you can't go back and answer the same question as a 2+2 question in another program. If you're not seeing the 2 Miles + 2 Showpoints questions, go back to the original page, then at the bottom of the page and futz with the slider bar above "Page 1 of X". You should see the 2 Miles + 2 Showpoints questions on a subsequent page.

You can find the questions for each program here.

• U.S. Airways trivia questions.
• Delta Airlines trivia questions
• Starwood trivia questions
• Best Buy trivia questions

Answers to questions for all programs as of June 18, 2013.

• What show won the 2013 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics of a Musical? Matilda
• Alan Cumming is from what country? Scotland
• Cicily Tyson, of The Trip to Bountiful, has appeared in all but which of the following movies: Doubt
• In what city did The Lion King premiere in the US? Minneapolis
• True or False? Once does not have an intermission. False
• What musical won the 2013 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography? Pippin

Caution: Although Bose is a listed merchant on Skymall, the terms and conditions of the Skymall pages usually specifically exclude Bose from the offer.

• Special offer: 25,000 miles. Expires July 31, 2013.

U.S. Airways special offer: 5,000 miles for Dish Network.

U.S. Airways 3,100 miles for DIRECT TV. Find it at U.S. Airways Dividend Miles Storefront.

AirTran offers 3 A+ Rewards Credits for activating new satellite TV service from Dish Network. Look in the left menu for the link to the offer.

Amtrak offers 7,500 points for Dish 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.

• Each time you spend $200 with a participating dry cleaner over a two calendar month period, you'll earn 200 bonus miles.

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.

• RewardsDb maintains a list of these.
• Webflyer lists them within its Mileage Mall > Groceries & Specialty Foods page. Click on that page and do a word seach on "wine".

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 500 bonus United Airlines miles for joining the Hartwick & Grove Wine Club and 10 miles/$1 spent. You may have to click on the United Airlines link at the bottom of the page to see this offer.

Vinesse Wine Clubs offers miles or points for joining any of its wine clubs.

• American Airlines: 2,000 miles with your first wine club shipment then 3,000 miles with your second shipment. Also, earn 5 miles/dollar spent on all other shipments and orders with American Cellars Wine Club powered by Vinesse. Offer ends December 31, 2012, but it was still online January 2, 2013. Ask.
• United Airlines: 2,000 miles with your first wine club shipment then 3,000 miles with your third shipment. Also, earn 5 miles/dollar spent on all other shipments and orders with American Cellars Wine Club powered by Vinesse. Offer ends December 31. 2012, but it was still online January 2, 2013. Ask.
• U.S. Airways: 2,000 miles with your first wine club shipment then 3,000 miles with your second shipment. Also, earn 5 miles/dollar spent on all other shipments and orders with American Cellars Wine Club powered by Vinesse. Offer valid on enrollments between April 22 and June 23, 2013, but if it is still online after that, ask. The standard offer linked to from the U.S. Airways website as of January 2, 2013, shows no expiration date and offers 1,000 bonus miles plus 5 bonus miles per dollar spent on all purchases.
  • Register for a 25% - 100% U.S. Airways miles bonus for purchases April 22 – June 23, 2013 at Vinesse and several other vendors.
• Alaska Airlines: 2,250 miles plus 5 miles/$1 spent with American Cellars Wine Club powered by Vinesse.
• Delta Airlines: 5 miles/$1 spent
  • Special Offer: 2,000 miles with your first wine club shipment then 3,000 miles with your second shipment, and a 6-piece Cellar Master Wine Tote with your third shipment. Offer ends March 21, 2013, but it was still online April 1. Ask.
• Hawaiian Airlines: 2,000 miles plus 5 miles per dollar spent.
  • Special offer: 2,000 miles with your first shipment, 3,000 miles with your second shipment and 5 miles for every dollar spent on all other wine club shipments and orders. Offer valid on enrollments to November 20, 2012, but it was still online and linked to from the Hawaiian Airlines website January 2, 2013. Ask.
• Frontier Airlines: 2,000 miles with your first wine club shipment then 3,000 miles with your third shipment. Also, earn 5 miles/dollar spent on all other shipments and orders with American Cellars Wine Club powered by Vinesse. This offer is valid on enrollments between March 6 and May 6, 2012, but it was still online January 3, 2013. Ask.
• Amtrak: 240 - 500 points plus 3 points/$1 spent.
  • Special offer: 2,000 points for the first shipment and 3,000 points with your third shipment and 3 points/dollar spent on all other wine club shipments and orders. Offer ends December 31, 2012, but it was still online January 3, 2013. Ask..
• Priority Club: 4,000 Priority Club® points with your first shipment, 5,000 points with your second shipment and 10 points/dollar spent on all other wine club shipments and orders. Offer ends December 31, 2013.
• Hilton HHonors: 4,000 Hilton HHonors Points with your first wine club shipment, 6,000 Hilton HHonors Points with your second wine club shipment, plus 13 HHonors Points per dollar spent. Expires June 20, 2013, but if is still online after that, ask.
• Best Western Gold Crown Club: Earn 500 points for EVERY enrollment and 20 points/$1 spent. Click on "read more" for details.
• Choice Privileges: Earn 2,500 Choice Privileges points with your first wine club shipment, 3,500 Choice Privileges points with your third wine club shipment plus 7 points per dollar spent on all other shipments and orders. Ends December 31, 2012, but it was still online January 3, 2013. Ask.

Taste Explorer Wine Club offers 4,000 U.S. Airways miles.

Wine Insiders

• 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.
  • Register for a 25% - 100% U.S. Airways miles bonus for purchases April 22 – June 23, 2013 at Wine Insiders and several other vendors.
• Wine Insiders offers 1,000 U.S. Airways miles for purchase of its Mystery 12-Pack Wine Sampler.

The Hawaiian Wine Club offers 100 Hawaiian Airlines miles for each bottle in your Hawaiian Wine Club shipments.

Virgin Wines offers 500 Virgin America Elevate points for joining its Virgin Wines Explorers Club.

Virgin Wines offers 500 Virgin Atlantic Flying Club points for joining its Virgin Wines Explorers Club.

Laithwaits Wine offers 2,000 jetBlue True Blue points for joining its program.

800Wine.com offers 1/2 AirTran credit/$100 spent.

Barclay's Wine Experience, formerly Beverage Bistro offers Amtrak points for joining and purchases.

• Special offer: 1,500 points for the first shipment and 1,000 points for every shipment thereafter.

Quintessentially Wine offers 1,000 Avios just for signing up, 1 Avios point/$1 spentand up to 8,000 bonus Avios on your first purchase (Spend $999 or under and earn 3,000 Avios. Spend $1000 or over and earn 8,000 Avios). The program is for North American residents. The offer expires January 31, 2012, but it was still online April 1, 2013. Ask.

Earn 2,000 United Airlines miles for joining a gym. They have offers from Anytime Fitness, Bally Total Fitness, Curves, 24 Hour Fitness, New York Sports Clubs, and more. I no longer see an expiration date for this offer. Please tell me when it changes or disappears. Thanks.

• Special offer: 630 My Coke Rewards Points will get you 2,000 Priority Club® Rewards Points for an undefined limited time. Please tell me when this offer disappears. Thanks. (Via MilesQuest)

• 1 Alaska Airlines mile/$3 spent on the purchase of a kayak from them.
• 500 Alaska Airlines miles if you are a current Folding Kayak Adventures customer and you refer a friend who purchases a kayak.

You may read about MyPoints and what it has to do with miles on my Click for Miles, Money, and Good Causes page.

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.

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.