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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #360 on: March 01, 2018, 09:34:00 PM »
I need car receipt last year before Dec 2. PM me for price. Thanks.

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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #361 on: March 12, 2018, 12:10:29 PM »
Looking for 1 Hertz/Dollar/Thrifty receipt from before 3/1 for UA miles. $15

Edit: 3/1/2018
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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #362 on: March 12, 2018, 12:20:34 PM »
Looking for 1 Hertz/Dollar/Thrifty receipt from before 3/1 for UA miles. $15

2018 or 2017? I can only help for 2018; PM me if interested. $25.
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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #363 on: March 16, 2018, 12:31:31 PM »
I have a budget rental receipt to use to reinstate my AA miles. However I didn't have a budget account until today.
The rental was in Israel so I got bounced around a few times when calling budget and was told at one point that I can't get reward credit if I didn't have an account at the time of the rental.
Is this true and if so any way to reinstate with my receipt or need to find someone else to help?
Thanks

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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #364 on: March 19, 2018, 09:26:59 AM »
Need to reinstate AA miles. Please PM if you can help. Thanks

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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #365 on: March 19, 2018, 06:20:47 PM »
Need to reinstate AA miles. Please PM if you can help. Thanks
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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #366 on: March 19, 2018, 07:57:19 PM »
Sam Finkelstein is the man! Needed a hertz receipt and he processed it same day(mar 15). Backdated United miles posted two days later(17th). Expired miles were restored March 19. Just wow...

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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #367 on: March 20, 2018, 11:12:48 PM »
 I tried reinstating Southwest points with a Budget rental but it didn't work, I think because the name on the rental was different from the Rapid Rewards account. Instead, Southwest set up a new account to deposit the points in. Has anyone been successful reinstating Southwest points?

I was successful reinstating IHG points with a Budget rental. Got the points back in 3 days.


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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #368 on: March 22, 2018, 02:45:06 AM »
I need receipts to reactive my southwest points. PM me if you have one. Need it from Oct 17 to Feb 18

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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #369 on: March 25, 2018, 09:33:46 AM »
I tried reinstating Southwest points with a Budget rental but it didn't work, I think because the name on the rental was different from the Rapid Rewards account. Instead, Southwest set up a new account to deposit the points in. Has anyone been successful reinstating Southwest points?

I was successful reinstating IHG points with a Budget rental. Got the points back in 3 days.


I was unsuccessful with Southwest
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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #370 on: April 02, 2018, 03:34:51 PM »
Thanks  @Sam Finkelstein!!

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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #371 on: April 02, 2018, 05:14:00 PM »
Have a Hertz rental receipt from November available @ BO
Contact me at abereich19@gmail.com for all help and info.

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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #372 on: April 02, 2018, 05:49:11 PM »
I was unsuccessful with Southwest
With Budget, right? Did you try a different car rental company?

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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #373 on: April 05, 2018, 02:05:49 PM »
Word of warning. Budget rentals won't work for restoring lost miles for other names anymore. I submitted 3 in the last few months. None of them were credited. I tried with AA and Southwest. I did not submit any names. I only gave the FFN. This is the reply I got from Budget after 100 days.

Rental Agreement Number: *******
Southwest Airlines Frequent Flyer Number: *****
 
Hello Mr. ******,
 
Thank you for contacting Budget Customer Care concerning the accrual of Southwest Airline credits for your previous Budget car rental.
 
I apologize for the delay.
 
Southwest Airlines states the frequent flyer number listed does not belong to you. As such the membership number cannot accrue Southwest Airline travel rewards.
 
Please e-mail with your Southwest Airlines membership number or if you would like credits with an alternate travel program please e-mail with the travel program name and your membership number. Please include your case number for all correspondence.
 
Thank you for your assistance.

So is it not possible to reinstate Southwest anymore given the above? I haven't seen any positive Southwest datapoints since this was posted. Which is a dang shame because I had 100,000 points expire. I know, I know, should have been paying closer attention. I took an award trip using Southwest miles and legit thought that counted as account activity, didn't even dawn on me to read the fine print.

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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #374 on: April 05, 2018, 03:07:25 PM »
It may still work using car rental receipts other than Avis/Budget.

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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #375 on: April 05, 2018, 03:15:01 PM »
Thanks. It just dawned on me that I had a Dollar/Hertz rental in June of 2017 and my RR points expired that July. So I'm going to see if crediting Dollar/Hertz will work. I'll report back.

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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #376 on: April 09, 2018, 01:16:17 PM »
Shout out to @Sam Finkelstein for a smooth AA and UA transaction!

DP: UA restore took 7 days, AA restore took 9 days.

Have Hertz receipts available for $25, any date. Please PM.
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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #377 on: April 09, 2018, 02:48:44 PM »
With Budget, right? Did you try a different car rental company?
Was Hertz
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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #378 on: April 10, 2018, 12:36:42 PM »
Does anyone have 2 separate receipts to spare for free in last 6 preferably or 12 months from any of hotels or car rentals below to revive expired United miles?

Best Western
Carlson
Choice
Hilton
Hyatt
La Quinta
Meridien
Mariott
IHG
Shangri-la
Starwood
Wyndham

Dollar
Execucar
Hertz
Super Shuttle
Thrifty

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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #379 on: April 10, 2018, 11:35:49 PM »
I was unsuccessful with Southwest
Because the names didn't match I assume?