Online shopping portals can be a great way to pick up additional points for purchases you’d make anyway. Most of the major airline and hotel programs have shopping portals, and many of them use the same company (Cartera), which essentially white labels the portals for each loyalty program. Essentially these shopping portals are paid a…
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Definitely a good extension to have. I should note however that the website cashbackmonitor.com shows more results generally when looking for The best portal to use for a purchase. Highly recommend
I agree totally on tha AADVANTAGE extension. It’s alerted me to vendors I would not have dreamed would be mileage partners.
@ anon -- Only when there's also an Amex Offer. 😉
https://onemileatatime.com/american-express-platinum-card-review/
I'll point out the obvious (to most computer people), extensions can be harmful. On the low end they may simply collect more info on you for ads, etc. or slow down your machine. On the high end, they can be more malicious (crypto mining, placing ads, etc.).
Unless you are collecting a ton of points like this, I don't think it is a worthwhile thing to install. If you have to, then set up a cheap computer (chromebook) or for the more savy, a virtual machine on your computer, to use for stuff like this .
Too often people spend a lot of time, or take a lot of risk, for what turns out to be worth only $50 or a couple of hundred.
Good reminder. I was about to order from guitarcenter.com and I wasn't even thinking about portal points. Looks like I can get 4x UR points in the Chase shopping portal. Unfortunately, I'm only buying a $40 stand. Maybe I need to up my purchases. This tip is saving me money already;-)
Which of these programs tend to be the most rewarding? I value points from all three airlines mentioned pretty similarly (perhaps SW a little higher given it's basically cash at 1.5cpp) but I know the portals sometimes offer better/worse rates depending on the partner.
@ Sandeep -- There's not one that's consistently most rewarding, as they all pretty consistently fluctuate in terms of the returns they offer. So your best bet is to compare with every purchase.
I saw the email from AA eShopping but I have not tried it yet. I already have extensions installed to alert for eBates and iConsumer portals so this would be the third. My browser is going to start looking like one of those sites that bombards you with pop-up ads!
Useful to ... Cambridge Analitica and its elk.
100% of your browsing will now go to the creators of the extension.
NO THANKS!!!!!!
would love this but I bet it has been 3 years since I have bought anything online that wasn't from AMZN
Rich - Don't be absurd. American airlines aren't going to release an extension that covertly uses your computer for cryptocurrency mining...
lucky - I bet you did not read the whole list and just jumped on the first FF program you had.
You could have credited your miles to Spirit!
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Callum - I am not sure the plugin is released by American and not some outsourced marketing firm. But even if it is American - you are right - they will not mine ethereum using the plugin - but I still do not want a custom ad printed on my boarding pass based on my browsing history...