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New American Airlines Shopping Members Earn 100 Free Miles (+ Up to 900 More)

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Reader Beth was kind enough to forward us a promotion from Cartera Commerce, who operates the American Airlines shopping portal. For some reason none of our American Airlines account received the promotional email, but that could be because we are already members of their portal.

Jan 2013 American Airlines Cartera Promo

Register your American Airlines account with the promotion and earn 100 free miles.

Make a purchase via the American Airlines shopping portal and receive an additional 300 AAdvantage miles.

With a purchase of over $100, earn an additional 600 miles.

*Terms and conditions: This bonus offer is open to AAdvantage® members that enroll in the AAdvantage eShopping℠ mall between January 21, 2013 and February 3, 2013 (“Bonus Offer Period”).

To earn the 100 American Airlines AAdvantage® bonus miles, you must have enrolled in the AAdvantage eShopping℠ mall during the Bonus Offer Period and remain opted-in to receive marketing emails from the AAdvantage eShopping℠ program until the bonus miles post to your AAdvantage® account.

To earn the 300 bonus miles, you must make a qualified purchase with a participating online merchant through the AAdvantage eShopping℠ mall website during the Bonus Offer Period.

To earn the 600 bonus miles, you must make a second qualified purchase of $100 or more with a participating online merchant through the AAdvantage eShopping℠ mall website during the Bonus Offer Period.

Please allow 8-10 weeks following the end of the Bonus Offer Period for AAdvantage® bonus miles to post to your AAdvantage® account.

Personally, I have zero interest in ever dealing with a Cartera Commerce run shopping portal again after an incident in 2011 where they ran a promotion to earn miles with a purchase and then failed to follow through. They even requested I sent the items back, which I did, and it took months and months worth of followup emails to get my money back from their botched program.

As a new user, I would recommend just earning your free 100 miles and moving on as there are many other shopping portals that are more reliable with reporting the sale and commission.

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Mileage and Reward Points Status (March 2012)

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This is our monthly recap where we look at what reward programs we were able to add miles or points to over the previous period. Now that we have depleted a good amount of our rewards, I am back to looking to build them back up again. With all the really great credit card rewards being offered for signing up for new cards, the rewards are there for the taking. To read proof how collecting miles/points can work for your family, read our post on how we are going to Hawaii (and Disneyland) for $30 in total cost for the flights. So far, we have received our mainland flights and all of our hotel nights on Oahu for absolutely “free” using miles and points in various programs. I am also currently looking at the value of using airline miles to fund expensive vehicle rentals.

With our last credit card churn back in October, we are gearing up for our first official multi-card churn shortly. We just paid off some older credit cards and might soon be in a position to take advantage of some new offers. Now that we no longer carry Continental accounts, options become available to possibly score United Explorer cards, as well as other options. We will also probably be trying for several other cards too.

Below is where we stand at month end. Overall it was a relatively slow month with little activity.

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The following is a brief summary of the things we have done in the past month to build up our accounts.

Delta SkyMiles– Audience Rewards trivia questions in all three of our accounts.

United Mileage Plus- Continental accounts have now been officially merged into the United accounts. Continental has been deleted from the summary, and historical data for United does not include Continental numbers. We added miles for our Hawaii inter-island purchases on the Continental Business card.

US Airways Dividend Miles– Audience Rewards accounted for most of the miles posting to each of our accounts. The Grand Slam promotion issues I was having with the magazine subscriptions finally resolved itself in that the magazines finally showed up, but so did the miles.

American Airlines AAdvantage– No change.

Hilton HHonors– No change.

Priority Club Rewards- 250 points from voting in the Freddies.

Starwood Preferred Guest– I finally gave up on all my missing Audience Rewards points from the end of last year, even though I received emails back saying our account was credited. Our new questions have been posting fine though. We also received a 250 bonus from liking the Westin Charlotte on Facebook.

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Note, we also have reward accounts with AirTran, Southwest, Frontier, Choice Hotels, Wyndham Rewards, and various other programs, but since we do not really use them, there is little advantage in including them in this list.

The point of showing these reports each month is to show you that every little bit of miles and point collecting can really add up to big rewards. It is never to late to sign-up and start collecting for your future travel needs. Thanks for reading! Save Money, Travel More.

Mileage and Reward Points Status (January 2012)

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This is our monthly recap where we look at what reward programs we were able to add miles or points to over the previous period. While we continue to be all about ways to earn really cheap or free airline miles and hotel reward points, we have shifted our “collecting” mindset into spending over the past months. What fun is earning all these rewards if you never spend them. With all the really great credit card rewards being offered for signing up for new cards, airlines have slowly been increasing their redemption rates and/or making it more difficult to spend those rewards. So we are trying to use some of our stash to help plan the next family vacation. To read proof how collecting miles/points can work for your family, read our post on how we are going to Hawaii (and Disneyland) for $30 in total cost for the flights.

We have really dwindled down a lot of our accounts because of the Hawaii trip, but that is what the miles and points are for, right? So far, we have received our mainland flights and all of our hotel nights on Oahu for absolutely “free” using miles and points in various programs.

With our last credit card churn back in October, we are gearing up for our first official multi-card churn this month. United announced the merging of Continental accounts will start in March, so I want to get at least the United Explorer cards before my Continental cards try and convert. We will also probably be trying for several other cards too. Stay tuned later this month.

Below is where we stand at month end.

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The following is a brief summary of the things we have done in the past month to build up our accounts.

Delta SkyMiles– Audience Rewards trivia questions in all three of our accounts.

United Mileage Plus- The great Gilt.com promotion credited. The accounts also will seem skewed in relation to the Continental accounts, because we moved all of the miles over into United.

Continental OnePass- Again we cleared all of our miles out by moving them over into United. There is also a very small credit of 6 miles from converting our last Best Buy Reward Zone points from 2011 via points.com.

US Airways Dividend Miles– Audience Rewards accounted for most of the miles posting to each of our accounts. There also was a points.com conversion of Best Buy Reward Zone points that credited in January.

American Airlines AAdvantage– No change.

Hilton HHonors– No change, but this month I expect a bump because of the mobile promotion from January.

Priority Club Rewards- Every month I dread going to the Priority Club or IHG websites because they are horribly slow. Just trying to sign in to our account takes forever. No change.

Starwood Preferred Guest– Our account has not been credited with SPG points via Audience Rewards going all the way back to the end of Nov. 2011. I am trying to track down whether this is a local issue, or a system wide failure.

Note, we also have reward accounts with AirTran, Southwest, Frontier, Choice Hotels, Wyndham Rewards, and various other programs, but since we do not really use them, there is little advantage in including them in this list.

The point of showing these reports each month is to show you that every little bit of miles and point collecting can really add up to big rewards. It is never to late to sign-up and start collecting for your future travel needs. Thanks for reading! Save Money, Travel More.