203 AGR for $0.99?

[wayman]

With the new Drive, Sleep, Shop promotion, your first Points for Shopping purchase between 1 July and 31 December gets you 200 bonus points. I can't find any fine print which gives a minimum amount for the purchase, and it looks like it's good for any store. So buying one song at iTunes for $0.99 gets you the 3 normal AGR plus the 200 bonus AGR? Not bad B)

It doesn't look like you have to do anything to register for this promotion--it's just automatic, I think.

 

[AlanB]

Well according to the email that I got, one needs to register for this promotion. It's down at the bottom of the email, but there is definately a code that one must enter on the AGR site to register if one wants to get the bonus points.

 

[the_traveler]

I just got an email, and YOU DO HAVE TO REGISTER!

 

[KayBee]

...So buying one song at iTunes for $0.99 gets you the 3 normal AGR plus the 200 bonus AGR?...

The Terms & Conditions say "...and purchases with participating partners must be a minimum of $25 to earn bonus points"

So you would need to buy more songs!

 

[the_traveler]

It doesn't appear to be targeted. My sister DID NOT receive the email, and I registered her! And it's listed on the AGR website - BEFORE I log in!

 

[wayman]

...So buying one song at iTunes for $0.99 gets you the 3 normal AGR plus the 200 bonus AGR?...

The Terms & Conditions say "...and purchases with participating partners must be a minimum of $25 to earn bonus points"

So you would need to buy more songs!

Wow, I totally didn't see that. I'm guessing that makes it impossible to use iTunes, since there's no single item that costs that much (and so far as I know, each song/album is an individual transaction billed separately). Too bad.

 

[Trogdor]

...So buying one song at iTunes for $0.99 gets you the 3 normal AGR plus the 200 bonus AGR?...

The Terms & Conditions say "...and purchases with participating partners must be a minimum of $25 to earn bonus points"

So you would need to buy more songs!

Wow, I totally didn't see that. I'm guessing that makes it impossible to use iTunes, since there's no single item that costs that much (and so far as I know, each song/album is an individual transaction billed separately). Too bad.

On Sunday evening, I downloaded three albums and two individual songs. Today, I got a receipt for all five items together (total $31.95).

 

[wayman]

...So buying one song at iTunes for $0.99 gets you the 3 normal AGR plus the 200 bonus AGR?...

The Terms & Conditions say "...and purchases with participating partners must be a minimum of $25 to earn bonus points"

So you would need to buy more songs!

Wow, I totally didn't see that. I'm guessing that makes it impossible to use iTunes, since there's no single item that costs that much (and so far as I know, each song/album is an individual transaction billed separately). Too bad.

On Sunday evening, I downloaded three albums and two individual songs. Today, I got a receipt for all five items together (total $31.95).

I was just about to comment to the same thing--I just got my receipt this morning for the train songs I purchased, and they were all lumped together. That's great news, since I've heard that iTunes is one of the most reliable AGR partner stores. (Though I don't think I've ever bought from iTunes through AGR before, so I can't say from personal experience. First time for everything.)

I'm sure I can find $30 in stuff I want anyway pretty easily, so I'll go and register for the promotion and then try to remember to go on a music binge sometime soon. Also, gotta sign up before my trip so I can try to get hotel points along the way

 

[Guest_The Metropolitan_*]

I'm hoping this one works this time. I tried last year's encouragement to use the partner points, and wound up only frustrated.

I'm already a Zipcar member, and I've got a reservation next week (and my first Zipcar points posted reliably! ) so that gets the driving bonus, I just yesterday treated my friend to a purchase from Aeropostale from the mall, so I'm crossing my fingers on that one, and that leaves an effective 1500 point bonus (500 for hotels + 1000 for the trifecta) for a hotel stay, so I may have to finally do this Raleigh trip to try to knock that one out.

Has anyone had any experience at having Choice hotels points posting?

 

[dan72]

For my business travels, I do stay at a Choice motel (Comfort Inn) once in a while and have had no problem with it being posted to my AGR account, although it does take about 2 weeks for it to post. I've done it three times now and have not had any problems. And this is a motel in the UP of Michigan -- a long ways from an Amtrak route or station.

Dan