ScootyPuffSr said:

So I can't speak for you, but for me $250 >> $250 GC.

I did say, YMMV.

There you go Scooty...thats the key word you should use YMMV...now it makes sense..The PPE for me has earned me 1 TY pt = 3 cents YMMV and thats why I was disagreeing..nothin personal

Well I have to disagree with Scooty on YMMV. Its not YMMV.

There you go Scooty...thats the key word you should use YMMV...now it makes sense

YMMV


I said YMMV in my first post, I said YMMV in my second post. Why does it only now make sense? I really don't know what more you TY fans want.

I'm confused, you said it is not YMMV and now you say I should use YMMV.

You are contradicting yourself pretty badly.

I am not saying you didn't get 3 cents per TY point. What I am diagreeing with is the fact that you said it doesn't vary and that everyone gets the exact same value out of those points. That couldn't be further from the truth.

coolbargains said:piyush123 said:In my opinion Thankyou Points are worth more than $.01. To put my money where my mouth is I will pay $ 650 for 60,000 points or $ 1,900 for 165,000 points.

PM me if any one is interested!

Piyush baba..how can you transfer the TY points? can we?Nope, TY points aren't transferrable. What you can do, however, is to use your TY points to book expensive flights for others, and make them pay you.

I think the bonus still counts as purchase points.

I can confirm that the bonus counted as purchase point as of March, I received my card in march and the points (15,000) posted as purchase points with the April statement

XeroK00L said:coolbargains said:piyush123 said:In my opinion Thankyou Points are worth more than $.01. To put my money where my mouth is I will pay $ 650 for 60,000 points or $ 1,900 for 165,000 points.

PM me if any one is interested!

Piyush baba..how can you transfer the TY points? can we?Nope, TY points aren't transferrable. What you can do, however, is to use your TY points to book expensive flights for others, and make them pay you.

I did this last year near holiday season, which I have to say is the best time to do this. I had about 60,000 pts and that was enough for an international flight. I was able to sell the points for over $1000. Easy money and both parties were happy, except Citibank which had to cough up a lot more for the flight through their fixed pt system that they are trying to get rid of

coolbargains said:manuvns said:if i buy tickets through Priceline do i qualify for the "Earn 1 point for every mile flown" ?

Yes you do get a point per mile flown..doesnt matter where you buy it from...let me tell you all Citi PP holders a trick..dont know if anyone of you have tried it yet..
I m usually on business travel once a month and the worst part is that I have to use my company CC to book tickets and I cant get points on my Citi PP card...
What I did 4 times in last 2 months was:
I usually travel American who serve snacks and beers on board for sale for 5 bucks and they do take credit cards.Even if you buy a headphone for 2 bucks, be a jack @$$ and pay using the Citi PP card..
The next thing you see at the end of your statement after 6 weeks is , you get the miles for that purchase...This seems to me like a loophole but it worked 4 times for me..2 Round trips from LAX-NY and I scored 10k Flight points by spending 20 bucks on snacks which I would usually do on those long flights..
Just my 2 cents and hope you FW ers use this same trick to score free flight points.

PS: make 2 seperate purchases 1 for snack and 1 for beer...see if that works too...
Have anyone done this yet???If not try it..it works10k flight points for spending 20 bucks? So they somehow know the travel distance of the flight where you make a snack purchase? Wow...and I don't think LA to NY is even that far. Nice loophole indeed if true though. I'll give it a try next time.

sfvs said:coolbargains said:manuvns said:if i buy tickets through Priceline do i qualify for the "Earn 1 point for every mile flown" ?

Yes you do get a point per mile flown..doesnt matter where you buy it from...let me tell you all Citi PP holders a trick..dont know if anyone of you have tried it yet..
I m usually on business travel once a month and the worst part is that I have to use my company CC to book tickets and I cant get points on my Citi PP card...
What I did 4 times in last 2 months was:
I usually travel American who serve snacks and beers on board for sale for 5 bucks and they do take credit cards.Even if you buy a headphone for 2 bucks, be a jack @$$ and pay using the Citi PP card..
The next thing you see at the end of your statement after 6 weeks is , you get the miles for that purchase...This seems to me like a loophole but it worked 4 times for me..2 Round trips from LAX-NY and I scored 10k Flight points by spending 20 bucks on snacks which I would usually do on those long flights..
Just my 2 cents and hope you FW ers use this same trick to score free flight points.

PS: make 2 seperate purchases 1 for snack and 1 for beer...see if that works too...
Have anyone done this yet???If not try it..it works

Amazing! I assume that when the purchases were posted to your account (before the points were awarded), the flights' origins and destinations also appeared. For good measure, could you check the corresponding statement(s) and tell us what you see?

Moreover, it would be nice to know if this works with any airline or not. I'm taking a Continental flight in about two months' time, so I'll probably attempt this trick then.
When there is a charge it says
AMERICAN0010051xxxxx ONBOARD SALE TX
NAME: Last name / First name
DEPART: 03/07/07
LAX TO EWR : AA: CLASS: Y : STOP:

And this is what the statement said:
TICKET STATEMENT TRAVEL ORIGIN/ POINTS
NUMBER DATE DATE DEST. EARNED
0010051xxx 03/21/2007 03/07/2007 LAX EWR 2,467

So thats how they assume that this is a purchase of ticket or something.
And 1 way to NY from LAX is ~2500 miles, so round trip is 5k and 2 round trips is 10k and thats what I have scored so far

It's spreading, there was a blurb about it in the WSJ a few days ago. Frontier is all electronic, I believe. They parlayed their setup for buying pay per view TV.

... back to the BT deal on the card... has anyone who has received the card checked the "balance transfer" section on the citicards website? I'm wondering what the length and max fee are listed. Heard a rumor from creditboards that it might be listing a zero fee for some people.

So how long on average from the time of signup does it take for the 25K points to be usable toward a new ticket? I would like to redeem them for a flight I am planning on taking over the summer, but it's in early-mid July.