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Re: Buy avios for .67 by signing up for a dating site
« Reply #40 on: March 05, 2017, 11:43:34 AM »
No one got the points? I thought some people did??
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Re: Buy avios for .67 by signing up for a dating site
« Reply #41 on: March 05, 2017, 07:21:38 PM »
No one got the points? I thought some people did??

Mine says 'pending' I don't think anyone got it deposited in their account yet...I could be wrong though.

If anyone wants to cancel you have 3 business days to do so - make sure to call tomorrow - if people paid $600 and because the 'add ons' don't credit want a refund of $400 that's another story...

For $200 you still get the 30k...also I don't think this was an error...the sale doubles any offers and there's a few things that were around 50 and now are 100 per $1...its not so 'crazy'.

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Re: Buy avios for .67 by signing up for a dating site
« Reply #42 on: March 05, 2017, 09:02:47 PM »
What's their number and hours of contact?

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Re: Buy avios for .67 by signing up for a dating site
« Reply #43 on: March 05, 2017, 10:46:06 PM »
EDIT: Nm, neither are listed now.

So this is or is not working JUST for the base signup cost? Sounded like Match.com is down, but eHarmony may still be working? I'm confused from some people's wordings as to whether the whole thing is a bust, or just if you did it with add ons.
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Re: Buy avios for .67 by signing up for a dating site
« Reply #44 on: March 05, 2017, 10:59:43 PM »
Is this deal out of the realm of hishtadlus?

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Re: Buy avios for .67 by signing up for a dating site
« Reply #45 on: March 06, 2017, 10:34:36 AM »
What's their number and hours of contact?

Just got confirmation of a refund by emailing them and making sure they knew the terms and conditions.

I didnt have to end up calling but match.com's number is :1800-326-5161

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Re: Buy avios for .67 by signing up for a dating site
« Reply #46 on: March 06, 2017, 10:36:34 AM »
EDIT: Nm, neither are listed now.

So this is or is not working JUST for the base signup cost? Sounded like Match.com is down, but eHarmony may still be working? I'm confused from some people's wordings as to whether the whole thing is a bust, or just if you did it with add ons.

This wasn't a mistake but if you did it with ad'ons you wont get that money in points, so if you paid the reg. $200 you get those point...this was not a mistake by BA, they had a sale that doubled the normal points, match's points were always a $1 for like 70 or 75 and then with sale it got doubled...eveyone who didnt buy adons should be getting full points.

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Re: Buy avios for .67 by signing up for a dating site
« Reply #47 on: March 06, 2017, 10:37:19 AM »
This wasn't a mistake but if you did it with ad'ons you wont get that money in points, so if you paid the reg. $200 you get those point...this was not a mistake by BA, they had a sale that doubled the normal points, match's points were always a $1 for like 70 or 75 and then with sale it got doubled...eveyone who didnt buy adons should be getting full points.

I think the sale may have ended...check ba portal

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Re: Buy avios for .67 by signing up for a dating site
« Reply #48 on: March 06, 2017, 01:57:37 PM »
Just got confirmation of a refund by emailing them and making sure they knew the terms and conditions.

I didnt have to end up calling but match.com's number is :1800-326-5161

can you point me to the terms and conditions

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Re: Buy avios for .67 by signing up for a dating site
« Reply #49 on: March 06, 2017, 02:29:29 PM »
can you point me to the terms and conditions

"Special State Terms.
The following provisions are added to this Agreement for subscribers residing in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin:
You, the buyer, may cancel this agreement, without penalty or obligation, at any time prior to midnight of the third business day following the original date of this contract, excluding Sundays and holidays. To cancel this agreement, mail or deliver a signed and dated notice which states that you, the buyer, are canceling this agreement, or words of similar effect. This notice shall be sent to: Match.com, Attn: Cancellations, P.O. Box 25472, Dallas, Texas 75225, USA (in addition, Ohio users may email us by clicking here or send a facsimile to 214-853-4309). Please include your match.com username and email address in any correspondence or your refund may be delayed. If you cancel, Match.com will return, within ten days of the date on which you give notice of cancellation, any payments you have made. If you send or deliver the notice to cancel your subscription agreement within such three day period, we will refund the full amount of your subscription."

and link:
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Re: Buy avios for .67 by signing up for a dating site
« Reply #50 on: March 06, 2017, 08:14:00 PM »
No Avios For You: Match.com Is Canceling Memberships per OMAAT.

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Re: Buy avios for .67 by signing up for a dating site
« Reply #51 on: March 07, 2017, 07:55:08 AM »
No Avios For You: Match.com Is Canceling Memberships per OMAAT.
So that means no match

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Re: Buy avios for .67 by signing up for a dating site
« Reply #53 on: March 07, 2017, 08:11:31 AM »
Fear not http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=7687.0
Didn't know ddf has its own match site  the only match ive heard about was the jetblue point match

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Re: Buy avios for .67 by signing up for a dating site
« Reply #54 on: March 07, 2017, 08:16:41 AM »
Didn't know ddf has its own match site 
Of course. I was looking for this
http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=2619.0

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Re: Buy avios for .67 by signing up for a dating site
« Reply #55 on: March 07, 2017, 09:34:45 AM »
Of course. I was looking for this
http://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=2619.0

Never heard of 'Saw you at DDF' (Sub group of Saw you at Sinanai' or 'Yidden flight 'connections' )

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Re: Buy avios for .67 by signing up for a dating site
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Re: Buy avios for .67 by signing up for a dating site
« Reply #59 on: March 22, 2017, 04:35:57 PM »
WSJ just wrote an article about this. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-frequent-fliers-who-bombarded-match-com-1490198351?tesla=y&mod=e2tw
The Frequent Fliers Who Bombarded Match.com
An online dating promotion for loyalty points with British Airways, Match and eHarmony with unintended consequences


What do you tell your spouse after signing up for a dating service? “I did it for the frequent-flier miles.”

Travelers fell in love with an offer of 150 points from British Airways for every dollar spent by U.S. customers on new subscriptions to Match.com. U.S. members of the BA loyalty program could also get 130 Avios points, as they’re called, per dollar with eHarmony. A $215 annual Match subscription earned 32,250 points, enough to make hearts flutter among mileage fanatics.

But the attraction was so strong that the dating services quickly called it off after a couple of days in early March, canceling new subscriptions, refunding fees paid and pulling back points awarded. Match.com says it ordered up the quickie divorce because an affiliated promoter launched the come-on without authorization. eHarmony says the relationship soured when some married travelers signed up and others created multiple profiles, violating terms and conditions.

Frequent-flier discussion boards went nuts over this promotion. Some travel nerds wondered whether dating services might be counterproductive to mileage accumulation, since actually finding a partner meant booking two tickets. Others wondered why dating sites didn’t let you search for mates by their airline status level. Some debated registering their wives.

Free travel has long been a marketing lure. Sometimes offers have loopholes exploited by mileage junkies to churn thousands, even millions, of miles. Bloggers quickly point out opportunity and travelers share tips on discussion boards like FlyerTalk and InsideFlyer.

Firms typically buy frequent-flier miles from airlines at less than one penny per mile, but that can get expensive quickly.

When the U.S. Mint offered free shipping to put dollar coins into circulation, frequent fliers ordered millions on credit cards to get points, then paid their bills with the coins. When cereal companies put coupons for miles in boxes, store shelves went bare. In 1999, a Healthy Choice frequent-flier promotion led a man in Sacramento, Calif., to buy up huge quantities of pudding and donate it to the Salvation Army in return for help peeling off labels to mail in. His scheme netted more than 1 million American miles and became a subplot in the movie “Punch-Drunk Love.”

Gary Leff, a co-founder of InsideFlyer, went to a hair treatment center offering 20,000 Delta miles for a consultation, even though he has a full head of hair. He and his wife went to a Jaguar dealer when Jaguar offered 10,000 British Airways miles for a test drive. They never drove—the dealership was happy to sign their test-drive form and not waste time and gas. On Christmas morning 2009, he used a stack of his own credit cards and friends’ credit cards to spend tens of thousands of dollars on an offer that netted 16 million US Airways miles for him and his friends.

“I’m still spending those miles,” he says.

When merchants make mistakes, Mr. Leff thinks the honorable thing to do is to admit the mistake and offer a couple of thousand miles as an apology, not just cancel the whole promotion and say oops.

Mileage hustles have become more difficult. Many airlines have curbed mileage runs—long trips on cheap fares to accumulate miles to cash in on expensive tickets—by awarding miles based on the fare paid instead of the distance. Many services have added credit-card fees or purchase limits so that buying cars or paying tuition, taxes or mortgages with credit cards is less rewarding.

That’s why the dating offers stood out—there were few clear restrictions, especially for single people who could create a profile and use the services. A good offer was made great by a weekend promotion of double points.

Chris Willers, a Denver restaurant general manager who uses mileage promotions to fund far-flung travels, signed up and saw more than 30,000 Avios points added to his account. He’s married, and when he told his wife she was unfazed. “I’ve done crazier things,” he says.

Mr. Willers figured even though he couldn’t use the service, Match would be happy with the sale and obliged to honor what was advertised. “They’re still getting their money,” he says.

Dallas-based Match, a unit of IAC/InterActiveCorp, says it can’t disclose the name of the affiliate marketing company that it says created the promotion without its approval. Normally Match pays marketers for new subscribers generated. In this case, Match says, it had no idea about the offer until sign-ups started flocking to its site.

In addition to married people and others who had zero desire to use Match, some people from outside the U.S. tried to sign up for the promotion offered only in the U.S., says Match spokeswoman Amy Canaday. “It led to a lot of bad behavior,” she says.

Because it was an “unauthorized promotion,” Match issued refunds and a free seven-day trial to use the service, she says.

eHarmony, based in Santa Monica, Calif., says it nixed subscriptions that didn’t meet its terms and conditions, such as people signing up for multiple accounts, or married users. “Our Trust & Safety team immediately flagged those accounts and removed them from the site,” eHarmony said in a statement.

For its part, London-based Avios Group Ltd., a unit of British Airways parent International Airline Group, says points earned on valid transactions that met terms and conditions will be honored. (Match and eHarmony declared almost all the subscriptions invalid.)

Frequent flier Dylan Schiemann didn’t sign up because he figured there was a line he shouldn’t cross with his wife. “It seemed like a good offer, but I decided pretty quickly not to go with it,” he says. “No matter how open you are, you just don’t go on a dating site if you’re married.”

Mr. Schiemann, who runs a software-consulting company and travels frequently from his Phoenix home, also skipped an AARP promotion popular with many frequent fliers: Buy a $16 membership to the retired persons group and get a coupon for up to $400 off a British Airways ticket. The offer to U.S. residents has no minimum age requirement. Earlier this year, it was cut in half to up to $200.
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