Free 'points' or miles

[mshatty Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close mshatty]

Is this still available?

[Jya-Ning Silver Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close Jya-Ning]

Is this still available?

Yes. Thanks to Spence, I did the order, and it took 2 days to get my coins, but took another few days for the item shown on my credit card. Does not look like it treat like cash advance. Don't know if it will count toward mileage. That will be the end of billing cycle. But it will be a very good gift(s) to family kids when I visit China this March. And very good for my kids from tooth fairy.

(I order exact $500, I wish they have different president mix in the order. Maybe next time.)

Jya-Ning

[secretharbour Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close secretharbour]

Nice

Wow! It's really cool. Now I'll have to plan for the vacation with my family...
Looking for recent offers...

[Laurie Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Laurie]

9:04 PM PST, December 11, 2009

The mint is now making a permanent fix to the problem, Jurkowsky said. In the future, credit card purchases will be recorded as cash advances rather than credit card purchases. Credit cards typically do not give reward points for cash advances.

So is the future now? (since the article was printed 3 months ago?)

[JudyS Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JudyS]

Flyertalk has a VERY active thread about these coin purchases, and no one seems to have had their purchase treated as a cash advance. (Although USBank Flexperks no longer awards points for these purchases.)

Instead, when one buys the coins, there is a statement saying that they are not to be deposited at banks, and that buying the coins means you are promising to comply.

I want to buy some coins to use at the new Aldi's in town (a discount grocer that doesn't take checks or credit cards.)

[Spence Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Spence]

I want to buy some coins to use at the new Aldi's in town (a discount grocer that doesn't take checks or credit cards.)

Way to go, that'll show 'em.

[bigrick Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close bigrick]

Yes. Thanks to Spence, I did the order, and it took 2 days to get my coins, but took another few days for the item shown on my credit card. Does not look like it treat like cash advance. Don't know if it will count toward mileage. That will be the end of billing cycle. But it will be a very good gift(s) to family kids when I visit China this March. And very good for my kids from tooth fairy.

(I order exact $500, I wish they have different president mix in the order. Maybe next time.)

Jya-Ning

Have you done this SINCE Dec 11?

[JudyS Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JudyS]

I said:

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I want to buy some coins to use at the new Aldi's in town (a discount grocer that doesn't take checks or credit cards.)

And Spence replied:

Way to go, that'll show 'em.

Actually, the folks at Aldi's seem happy to take the dollar coins. I don't know if they ever use them for change or just deposit them at their bank, but they said paying with them is fine.

My latest order of coins arrived in about a week. It seems to have posted to my AMEX SPG card as a regular purchase.