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American Airlines Enters Calls Center Alliance With Hotels.com

by Gary Leff

american airlines plane
Nov 16 2004

American Airlines has entered into an agreement with Hotels.com to transfer customers from one call center to another. In other words, when you end your call with American the AAgent will ask whether you would like to be transferred to Hotels.com for hotel accomodations. American will even give you 150 miles for completing a Hotels.com stay. It’s strange that American is charging booking fees for making a reservation through a call center at the same time they’re using their call center as a cross-marketing profit center. My strategy will be whenever I want to make a Hotels.com booking I’ll call American, ask a silly question (But not book a ticket! Don’t want that booking fee!), and take the Hotels.com transfer for the bonus miles. The only other place offering points for Hotels.com bookings is GlobalPass.…

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Seattle to Rome: $107 + tax roundtrip

by Gary Leff

USAirways has a fare of $107 (a bit over $200 with tax) from Seattle to Rome with a connection in Philadelphia. Naples and Florence price the same way (with a likely connection in Munich). Lots of availability as it’s a coach ticket booked in H inventory, one of the higher coach classes. You cannot depart after March 31st, there’s a six day minimum stay, you must travel on the weekend, and you cannot travel during the Christmas holidays I’m able to get this to come up on Expedia, Orbitz, AA.com, and United.com. Sometimes I can get it on USAirways.com, but their website is glitchy. Use a multi-city search and enter Seattle-Philadelphia, Philadelphia-Rome, Rome-Philadelpha, Philadelphia-Seattle. Since this has been available since yesterday, I wouldn’t expect it to be up for much longer.

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Infone offer up on Free Handbag site

by Gary Leff

free handbag
Nov 14 2004

The Infone offer is currently available with the free handbag offer. The free handbag requires you to create an account, complete a marketing offer, and get five referrals to complete a marketing offer. The great thing about Infone is that they don’t ever charge you anything unless you use the service more than five times. So a quick signup is all you need, no need even to cancel later and no cost. Plus the offer credits instantly. So sign up now while Infone is up. If you’ve already used Infone to complete another giveaway offer, no worries. It seems that as long as you use a different email address and perhaps name and phone number on the Infone site, you can site up again and still get credit. When you click on the Infone offer,…

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Cheap Kitchen Supplies

by Gary Leff

Can’t vouch for the quality, but JCPenney has a 75 piece kitchen set for $39.99, marked down from $139.99.Free shipping this month with promo code NOV4WEL. Cookware is 1.2mm aluminum with non-stick interior. Bakeware is durable carbon steel, also with non-stick interior. Knife, gadget and cutlery sets are stainless steel. Dishwasher safe. Includes: 1- and 2-quart covered saucepans, 5-quart covered Dutch oven, 9-1/2″ frypan, 12″ pizza pan, roaster pan, cookie sheet, grater, peeler, pizza cutter, bottle opener, can opener, stainless steel knives (bread, chef, boning, utility, paring and 6 steak), sharpener, wood block, 6 nylon kitchen tools (slotted spoon, spoon, turner, skimmer, pasta server and soup ladle), 10-pc. measuring cup/spoon set, 12-pc. cutlery set (4 pieces each fork, knife, spoon), 6-pc. round storage set, 2 bag clips, plastic cutting board, 6-pc. cookie cutter set, salt…

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Competition Enters the Market for Free Giveaways

by Gary Leff

free electronics
Nov 13 2004

Gratis Networks, which offers free stuff like the photoiPod, has competition from a new site which lets you choose from several rewards like a portable DVD player or cash. The website looks alot like a Gratis Networks free site, but their FAQ tries to differentiate them — they don’t make you fill out surveys that have nothing to do with the free offers, and they promise to ship rewards quickly.

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QuikBook Kicks Back an Amazon Gift Certificate

by Gary Leff

QuikBook, the hotel consolidator, is offering a $15 Amazon.com gift certificate when you book and stay by March 31 with promotion code AMMI (one per customer, gift certificate delivered by email within 30 days). QuikBook is a pretty useful tool, though with limited application. It sells only hotel rooms, and then only in some major cities. But its rates are often better than the other travel websites (other than Priceline, for instance, when PL has inventory). In many cases it is buying and reselling rooms, so even when hotels are more or less sold out QuikBook may still have inventory. When there were no rooms to be had in New York City at any price (other than the Howard Johnsons at Penn Station for $220 and similar), I managed to get the Holiday Inn Midtown…

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Summary of Free Stuff Offers

by Gary Leff

free electronics
Nov 12 2004

A summary of all the Gratis Networks free offers I’m aware of: free photoiPod free handbag free iPod free desktop computer free flatscreen TV Please email me if you come across another Gratis Network offer that I haven’t found yet. The offers are pretty simple. Sign up for the sites. Just click on the links and create your account. It’s quick. With most of the sites you’ll be given a bunch of offers and asked to say “yes” or “no” to them. Just say no, because replying in the affirmative doesn’t get you anything – those offers don’t help you get free electronics. (They’re just an extra moneymaker for Gratis Internet.) Check out the offers that you’re able to complete. My favorite by far is Infone, but it seems to be only sporadically available. If…

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Biscoff Cookies

by Gary Leff

delta-airline-plane
Nov 10 2004

One of the things I love about flying Skywest, a regional carrier in the Western U.S. for both United and Delta, is that they’ve long served Biscoff cookies. The Gourmet Center in San Francisco (which sells these wonderful treats) is now offering one Delta mile per dollar spent at their online store, plus 250 miles for each order (500 miles on orders of $75 or more). This isn’t the most lucrative offer on its own terms, but for folks like me who have long considered ordering the cookies anyway this gives me a pretty good excuse.

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One for the ladies…

by Gary Leff

free handbag
Nov 10 2004

The free photoiPod people also have an offer for a free handbag — a Prada mini-hobo, Kate Spade Pia Pochette, Burburry Novacheck Minisling, or Coach Signature Demi-pouch. For the record, I don’t know what any of those things are. But they’re authentic, and they’re supposed to be good. As with all of these offers, the key is to sign up for a free trial that doesn’t require you to spend any money. The best offer is infone, as it doesn’t even need to be cancelled. AOL is another good offer, you don’t get charged anything and have 45 days to cancel.Then you need to refer folks to the site who need to complete an offer. Unlike the free computer, which takes 10 referrals, the free handbag takes only five.

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