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 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.

• BigCrums
  • Often the best rebate rates, plus rebates for your purchases at E-bay.
  • 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.
  • A very good referral system.
  • Two rebate systems, one for maximum rebate for your purchases plus commissions for purchases by anyone you refer, and one for lesser rebates for your purchases, but commissions for not only those purchases by those you refer, but also purchases by any they refer, and any they refer, and so on, 5 deep.
  • 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.
• 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.

"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.
Two programs:

• AAdvantage eShopping mall .
  • 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.

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

Continental Airlines.

• GiftCertificates.com is listed as one of Continental's vendors. See my writeup above on how to use these certificates to triple dip on miles.
• Also check to see if your vendor is in the Skymall program described below

United Airlines Mall.

• Special offer:
• 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 check to see if your vendor is in the Skymall program described below.

Northwest Airlines.

• Register to receive double miles for purhases through September 30, 2008, with some restrictions. (Read them.)
• If the WP102: My WorldPerks Number course easy offer is still running (see the Northwest Airlines section of my Registrations and Other Bonuses page), completion of this easy offer gets you 1,000 Bonus Miles for making two qualifying purchases through the WorldPerks Mall within 60 days. A qualifying purchase is defined as two purchases at separate WorldPerks Mall merchants, each totaling a minimum of $25. The $25 minimum excludes shipping, service charges and applicable taxes. Please tell me when this offer expires and remind me that I have listed it on both the shopping and reg pages. Thanks.
• GiftCertificates.com is listed as one of Northwest's vendors. See my writeup above on how to use these certificates to triple dip on miles.
• Holders of Northwest Airlines credit cards are eligible for some pretty good discounts from WorldPerks Visa Marketplace.
• Also check to see if your vendor is in the Skymall program described below

U.S. Airways.

• 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.

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

Alaska Airlines
This is a much improved portal over Alaska's old one via milesmall. GiftCertificates.com is listed as one of its vendors. See my writeup above on how to use these certificates to triple dip on miles.

Hawaiian Airlines
Some deals are listed on Hawaiian's Specials Page.

Midwest Airlines.

• It appears that SkyMall is running this portal for Midwest. SkyMall is listed as one of the portal's merchants.

British Airways

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

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 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.

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.

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.

• 20% discount for orders of at least $150 when you use an American Express credit card to pay. Alas, this does not seem to be combinable with any of the miles offers, as you must use the page to which I link to shop.
• Southwest Airlines
• American Airlines.
• Continental Airlines.
  Special offers:
  • 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. Just ask your flight attendant for an order form on your next flight. Offer valid only while onboard via the SkyMall/OnePass Onboard Order Form."

    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.
• Delta Airlines.
• U.S. Airways.
  • 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.
  • 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.
• Midwest Airlines
  • On July 20, 2008, the standard offer was 10 miles/$1 spent. Please tell me when this excellent offer changes. Thanks.
• AirTran
• Northwest Airlines.
  • On July 20, 2008, the standard offer was 10 miles/$1 spent. Please tell me when this excellent offer changes. Thanks.
• United Airlines
• Marriott

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

• 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 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.

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

• You must accrue at least 100 miles before we send 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.

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 myOther Programs I Like page.

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).

Earn Miles for Newspaper Subscriptions

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.

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	20 Continental Airlines miles per $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
N.Y. Times	500 PhoneHog Minutes and 50% discount	PhoneHog home page. See my Telephone page, Long Distance section, for info on PhoneHog.
Washington National Post	20 Continental Airlines miles per $1 spent	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 Delta Airlines miles plus 100 miles/4 weeks	Click, or call (800) 872-0001 - key code 215
USA Today	1,000 U.S. Airways miles plus 100 miles/4 weeks	Click. But first enter the Grand Slam promotion through September 30, 2008.
USA Today	20 Continental Airlines miles per $1 spent	Click
USA Today	1,000 Hilton HHonors points plus 400 point/week 4900/year max	Click
USA Today	1,000 Priority Club points, plus 300 points every 4 weeks	Click or (800) USA-0001 promo code 558
USA Today	1,400 Marriott Rewards points	Click
San Francisco Chronicle	5 or 10 United Airlines miles per dollar spent	Click
The Philadelphia Inquirer & Daily News	1,000 U.S. Airways miles plus 100 miles/month	Click. But first enter the Grand Slam promotion through September 30, 2008.
The Charlotte Observer	2,100 U.S. Airways miles the first year	Click. But first enter the Grand Slam promotion through September 30, 2008.
Honolulu Star Bulletin	2,500 or 1,000 Hawaiian Airlines miles	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.

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.

Redeem Miles for Newspaper and Magazine Subscriptions

• Delta Airlines.
• Northwest 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. (No Wall Street Journal.)
• Midwest Airlines. (Click on the link to Magazines for Miles.)
• U.S. Airways.
• 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
• Continental OnePass: 800-961-8697
• 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.

• 300 Priority Club points for getting a quote on the price of a Ford automobile.

• 300 Marriott Rewards points for getting a quote on the price of a Ford automobile.

• 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.

   

Thanks Again for Auto Repair and Service and Many Airlines

Tesoro Petroleum and Many Airlines

Albina Automated Fueling (Pacific Pride)

Air Canada - Esso, Exxon, and Mobil

Cathay Pacific Asia Miles and Petro-Canada

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.

Asiana and SK

Mobil Guam/Saipan and Continental Airlines

Lufthansa and Automobile Clubs

Top Service Team and Lufthansa

Grocery Stores

• First go to the store to get the card. Do not register for the United Airlines program at that time, since that method seems to take forever to take effect, and can get lost in the system.
• Then click here, or call (877) 723-3929, to enroll your card in the United Airlines program.

Special offers:

• Earn 500 miles for every four prescriptions filled at Dominick’s October 1, 2007 - October 1, 2008. Details. Read them.

• The United Airlines web site has a listing and links to descriptions of all of its United miles for groceries programs.

Some Safeway, Carrs and Eagle stores, offer as and alternate to the United Airlines program 125 Alaska Airlines miles for every $250 spent.

• To enroll, follow directions here.
• Participating stores are located in Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska. All locations in those states are participating, with the exception of the following Washington locations: Longview, Vancouver, Kelso, Camas, Battleground, and Hazel Dell. Customer service for the program tells me you may also live in Milton-Freewater, Oregon, to participate. (877) 723-3929.

• Complete and submit a Remarkable Card application at your local store.
• If you want the Continental Airlines program, enroll your card in the program online. Read the terms and conditions. Thanks to Gary Leff from View from the Wing for this information.
• If you want the American Airlines program, check the appropriate box on the application. The only details I can find specific to the American Airlines program are on American's website here.

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.

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."

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

• Join Netflix for the first time at $4.99 a month and earn 2,000 United Airlines miles after your first month as a paying member.
• Mileage Plus® Visa® cardholders who pay with their Mileage Plus Visa are offered an additional 2,000 miles after your first month as a new member, for a total of 4,000 miles. See the Annual Fee cards page of my Credit Card section to read about the current offers for a United Airlines Mileage Plus® Visa® card. Often they are free of an annual fee for 1 year and offer large numbers of up front miles for first use.
• You must register first. If that link doesn't work, try this one.
• In case the above offer disappears, the latest offer I have seen advertised gives 3,000 miles. You must register first.

NetFlix also offers

• 1,500 American Airlines miles through the AAdvantage shopping portal for plans starting at $8.99.month, for less than 0.6 cent/mile.
  • Special offer: 2,000 miles, for less than 0.5 cent/mile. You must register first. Please tell me when this offer disappears.
  • Even more special offer: 2,500 miles, for 0.3596- cent/mile. You must register first. Please tell me when this offer disappears.
• 2,500 Delta Airlines miles for plans from $8.99/month, for 0.3596 cent per mile.
• 1,500 U.S. Airways miles for plans from $8.99/month, for less than 0.6` cent per mile.
  • First sign up for U.S. Airways' Grand Slam promotion to earn bonus miles for participation in partner offers through September 30, 2008.
• 1,500 Northwest Airlines miles through the WorldPerks shopping portal, for less than 0.6 cent per mile assuming an $8.99 price is available. I didn't log in to look.
• 1,000 Continental Airlines miles though Continental's shopping portal. At $9.99, that's less than a so-so 1 cent a mile.
• 675 Priority Club points when you sign up for Netflix through the Priority Club mall. Miles wise, this is a terrible deal, but some folks want Priority Club points for hotel stays.
• 625 Marriott Rewards points when you sign up for Netflix through the Marriott Rewards mall. Miles wise, this is a terrible deal, but some folks want Marriott points for hotel stays.

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.
Special offers:

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

  Continental Airlines' Signature Dry Cleaning Network offers 1 mile/$1 spent on a credit card registered with the program. Read the terms and conditions.

   

• 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".
• Shop4miles had 115 pages of individual wine offerings on November 12, 2007, and offers bonus miles for signing up with its program.

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.

• Special offer: 25 miles/$1 spent August 7th - Midnight August 17, 2008.

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

• Alaska Airlines: 2,750 miles plus 5 miles/$1 spent with American Cellars Wine Club powered by Vinesse.
• Delta Airlines: 1,500 miles plus 100 or 200 miles/bottle purchased.
• Northwest Airlines
  • Regular offer: 1,500 miles plus 100 or 200 miles/bottle purchased.
  • Improved offer: 2,000 miles for joining American Cellars Wine Club plus 100 Miles/bottle purchased.
• Midwest Airlines: 2,000 miles plus 4 miles/$1 spent.
• Amtrak: 240 - 500 points plus 3 points/$1 spent. Amtrak points can be converted to Continental Airlines or Midwest Airways miles with some serious limitations. See the Points to Miles section of my Other Programs I Like page for details.
• Priority Club: Earn 3,500 points with first shipment from American Cellars Wine Club, plus 10 points/$1 spent.
• Best Western Gold Crown Club: Earn 500 points for EVERY enrollment and 20 points/$1 spent. Click on "read more" for details.

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.

• First sign up for U.S. Airway's Grand Slam promotion to earn bonus miles for participation in partner offers through September 30, 2008.

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

• Special offer through December 31, 2008.
  • Special offer to Amtrak Guest Rewards members: A $50 gift certificate to Exclusive Clubs of Beverage Bistro. Please tell me when this offer changes or disappears. Thanks.
  • Special offer: Join the Vineyard Wine Club through December 31, 2008, and get your first month wine—a value of $125.00—FREE, and earn up to 5,000 points.
  Read my description of the Amtrak program on my Other Programs I Like page, Points to Miles section, to see how to convert Amtrak points Continental or Midwest Airlines miles.
• The British Airways Wine Club offers to residents of the U.K. or U.S. 1,000 miles for joining, plus 250 miles per case of wine purchased.

   

• First sign up for U.S. Airways's Grand Slam promotion to earn bonus miles for participation in partner offers through September 30, 2008.

• 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.

"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.

Just ask your flight attendant for an order form on your next flight.

Offer valid only while onboard via the SkyMall/OnePass Onboard Order Form."

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.