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The free photo iPod and free handbag offers both show Ancestry.com at the moment — a free trial with no expense that in my experience is easy to cancel. See this post for a summary of the free electronics offers, how they work, and how to complete them. I’m a big fan, having gotten the computer, television, and iPod already.
Diners Club is offering a 30% bonus on transfers to United through January 15. They’re also offering a 30% bonus on transfers to USAirways through January 31.
Overstock.com is offering $50 off $400 on Friday November 26th only.
The W Hotel Store is offering 20% off through June 30, 2005 with promotion code 2WP2E.
Just found this: Between Saturday November 20th and Tuesday November 30th simply enter promotional code NOVEMBER within your shopping bag to receive 30% off the entire site. If you use the promotional code during our PRIVATE SALE period (November 20th through Monday, November 22nd), your 30% off will be applied to already reduced prices. Also, you’ll enjoy FREE SHIPPING on all orders over $150.
Special hotel rates are available through March 31 in conjunction with the movie National Treasure. Rates at Washington, DC’s Grand Hyatt start at $99. Other hotel deals are available as well, such as $109 at Melrose. The Grand Hyatt’s standard rate hovers around $300 per night, though it dips down so around $229 on lower occupancy nights — so $99 is an excellent deal. However any night where the $99 rate is available I’m almost certain that there’d be Priceline availability as well. A four-star bid in the Capitol Hill/Convention Center zone should yield the Grand Hyatt for $65-$70 on those nights.
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From 9am Eastern on November 18th to 9am Eastern on November 20th, the W Silicon Valley is available for $48 on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday night stays between November 19th and January 2nd. Call 877-WHOTELS and mention rate plan UNWRAP.
USAirways is offering up to 20,000 bonus miles that count towards elite status for booking tickets on its website. The offer requires tickets to be purchased and flown between November 16, 2004 and February 16, 2005. Registration is required.The offer is ostensibly to ‘celebrate the 20th anniversary’ of the USAirways mileage program. From their email: Celebrating 20 years of Dividend Miles: 1984 Piedmont Airlines Frequent Flyer Bonus Program was born. 1985 USAir unveiled the Frequent Traveler Program and launched the co-branded credit card. 1989 Piedmont Airlines is integrated into USAir. 1997 USAir became US Airways and the program is re-launched as Dividend Miles. Chairman’s Preferred status is created. 2004 US Airways joined the Star Alliance™ network with access to over 770 destinations in 133 countries.
The online shopping portals are rolling out the mileage offers. United is offering 1000 bonus miles for spending $50 and 2500 bonus miles for spending $100 at one of five select merchants, on top of the regular miles earned. The bonus can be earned three times on purchases made through December 31. Send $100 in flowers via FTD, for example, and earn 4500 miles – for a nice 45 miles per dollar spent. That’s a nice improvement over the otherwise-excellent 30 miles per dollar that’s available the rest of the year Through December 31st, Delta is offering 150 bonus miles when you spend $100 and 500 bonus miles when you spend $250 in addition to regular miles earned with selected merchants at their online mile. If you earn $150 with two or more merchants you’ll…
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
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