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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #600 on: April 23, 2020, 01:44:13 PM »
Is this actually true?

No idea if it's true, but that's what DoC said:
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...some people were making changes to their receipts to get their miles reactivated

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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #601 on: April 23, 2020, 01:45:22 PM »
No idea if it's true, but that's what DoC said:
could be DOC isn't familiar, and it's just the way he understood it.

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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #602 on: April 23, 2020, 01:49:38 PM »
No idea if it's true, but that's what DoC said:
DoC makes assumptions.
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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #603 on: April 23, 2020, 01:49:48 PM »
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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #604 on: April 23, 2020, 01:50:04 PM »
could be DOC isn't familiar, and it's just the way he understood it.

True. Could be he was coming from here. OMaaT quoted this guy.

https://twitter.com/xJonNYC/status/1253121025551863809

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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #605 on: April 23, 2020, 01:51:02 PM »
Info is always entered to match receipt.
Meaning? Was anything photoshopped/altered as bloggers are all implying?
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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #606 on: April 23, 2020, 01:51:53 PM »
Meaning?

Whatever name/address is on receipt is submitted on the retro credit request.
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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #607 on: April 23, 2020, 01:52:14 PM »
Meaning? Was anything photoshopped/altered as bloggers are all implying?
Absolutely not. You don't send in actual receipts.
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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #608 on: April 23, 2020, 01:53:08 PM »
Absolutely not. You don't send in actual receipts.
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DoC makes assumptions.

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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #609 on: April 23, 2020, 01:55:13 PM »
All you do differently is give the FFN of the expired account, not the renter.

(Plus email address if you want notification to go elsewhere.)
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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #610 on: April 23, 2020, 01:57:01 PM »
Meaning? Was anything photoshopped/altered as bloggers are all implying?
Absolutely not. You don't send in actual receipts.

And you know people who were shut down in this wave even though they didn't change any info on the receipts?

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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #611 on: April 23, 2020, 01:59:11 PM »
And you know people who were shut down in this wave even though they didn't change any info on the receipts?
Yes.
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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #613 on: April 23, 2020, 02:02:04 PM »
Yes.
Were the same receipts submitted multiple times?
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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #614 on: April 23, 2020, 02:02:50 PM »
Were the same receipts submitted multiple times?
I doubt that would work.

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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #615 on: April 23, 2020, 02:03:50 PM »
I doubt that would work.

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No. They send back an error email.
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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #616 on: April 23, 2020, 02:18:21 PM »
https://twitter.com/xJonNYC/status/1253386182974746626

I think this thread is more informative then DOC articles and comments.
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Re: Buy/Sell Past Car Rentals To Reactivate Expired Miles
« Reply #618 on: April 23, 2020, 06:10:34 PM »
Anyone get shut down for using their own old rental car transaction to reinstate their own miles?

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