Northwest is offering 1000 bonus miles for shopping with specific merchants through their mileage portal through June 30, up to 10,000 miles total for the promo.
The participating merchants are:
AVON
Bagsbuy
BarnesandNoble.com
Beauty.com
Big Dogs
Bliss
Borders
Brookstone
Charlotte Russe
CHEFS
Cheryl & Co.
Clinique
drugstore.com
eBags
ESPNShop.com
Footlocker
Gaiam
GiftBaskets.com
H2O Plus
Harry & David
ICE.com
JC Whitney
Jos. A. Bank
Kiehl’s
Kodak Gallery
Lab Series
Lancome
Lord & Taylor
macys.com
Magazines.com
Magellan’s
Naturalizer.com
Nautica
Nordstrom.com
Northern Tool & Equipment
Omaha Steaks
Origins
RedEnvelope
Rosetta Stone
Saks Fifth Avenue
Sears.com
Sephora
Shoebuy
ShopNBC
Smart Bargains
Smith + Noble
SpaFinder
The North Face
The Walking Company
Things Remembered
TravelSmith
Vans
Vera Bradley
Vision Direct
VistaPrint
Zazzle
Naturally, there are Flyertalkers trying to figure out how to get 10,000 miles out of this promo as cheaply as possible, building online spreadsheets, and the like.
On the whole though this is just a good offer for purchases you were going to make from these merchants anyway, rather than trying to figure out whether a 1 cent eBook purchase from Barnes & Noble will constitute a qualifying transaction…
Your links about the cheap items and spreadsheet are broken.