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 Reminder: Miles must be purchased by 09/30!!!

Originally posted 09/19 

WARNING:

• Please proceed with extreme caution: While many of these deals look pretty sweet, please be aware that this is not your typical North American carrier!!!

• It is hard to speak to an agent that both speaks English and fully comprehends the TACA Distancia mileage program and its partner awards. Be prepared to try multiple times until you find someone competent!

• According to most of the representatives, mileage purchases expire 2 years from the date of purchase, unless you fly on a paid TACA ticket!

• Dansdeals.com will not be responsible for any problems with using purchased TACA Distancia miles, so please double-check all TACA policies before making a purchase!

TACA Airlines (aka Take A Chance Airlines) is selling miles this month for half off the normal 2.5 cents/mile rate.

Instead of $50 for 2,000 miles, it is just $25.

They are award partners with Iberia and United Airlines.

What is intriguing about this is there lucrative redemption chart.

You can fly anywhere within North America for just 25,000 miles in the low season (February, March, April, May, October, November) or 30,000 miles in the high season (January, June, July, August, September, December, and Easter season).

Sample low season travel rates when purchasing miles:

NYC-Maui, Hawaii: Via United: 25,000 miles (about $312)

NYC-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Via United: 35,000 miles (about $437)

NYC-Australia: Via United: 75,000 miles (about $937)

LAX-Tel Aviv: Via Iberia: (TACA Low season usually includes Pesach/Sukkos holiday seasons!) 75,000 miles (about $937)


Helpful Links:

Buy TACA Ditancia Miles Page Linky

TACA Awards Page Linky

United Awards Page Linky

Iberia Awards Page Linky

Good Luck! If anyone does use this for a ticket I’d love to hear about it!

If you want some serious optical zoom power in a small package-look no further!!!

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Norton Confidential: $14.99 After $30 Rebate!
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Photo Explosion 2.0: FREE After 2 Rebates!
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AA is the only remaining airline that still counts all mileage activity towards lifetime elite status.

United and Delta used to count all miles, but currently only count actual flown mileage for lifetime elite status.
Continental used to have a program that if you were a top-tier elite for 5 consecutive years you got lifetime top-tier status, alas Continental no longer offers any chance at becoming a lifetime elite today.


On AA every mile earned, even those from credit cards, is counted.
At 1,000,000 miles you get lifetime Gold Elite status and at 2,000,000 miles you get lifetime Platinum Elite status.
In addition you also get other nice goodies when you cross each million marker.

It doesn’t matter if you’ve redeemed miles, the only thing that matters is the “program to date miles.”

Today I finally entered the home stretch…I just hope they don’t pull the program before I cross the finish line!

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Express Jet is a fairly new LCC with a hub in Ontario, CA. (Located between Los Angeles and Palm Springs) They were flying as Continental Express, but they launched a separate unit as a standalone carrier.

Apparently though, United’s got a bone to pick with them: They just filed $78 Round trip fares on nearly every single route that they fly!

$78+ RT To/From Ontario on United:
Albuquerque, NM
Austin, TX
Boise, ID
Colorado Springs, CO
Fresno, CA
Kansas City, MO
Monterey, CA
Oklahoma City, OK
Omaha, NE
San Antonio, TX
Spokane, WA
Tucson, AZ
Tulsa, OK

For all of the Canadians who complain that I ignore them…
Travel is valid to and from Canada!

Los Angeles-Toronto-$199+ RT On Northwest

Los Angeles-Montreal-$226+ RT On Northwest

S. Fransisco-Montreal-$226+ RT On Northwest

S. Fransisco-Toronto-$226+ RT On Northwest

The ridiculous thing about Continental’s cheap airfare sales from PIT is that if I were to take the 100 minute drive to the PIT airport I have to connect back in CLE to get to the west coast and can’t get off in CLE on the return, but if I want to go non-stop from CLE it’s double the price…

Save an additional 5% on Continental tickets by using your Chase Continental MC and using the code: Onepass

Save 5% on Delta tickets by using the Delta business Amex.
Save 3% on Delta tickets tickets by using a Starwood or Jetblue business amex…

Pittsburgh-Tucson-$138+ RT On Delta, Continental and others.

Pittsburgh-Phoenix-$138+ RT On Delta, Continental and others.

Pittsburgh-Los Angeles-$144+ RT On Continental

Pittsburgh-Seattle-$144+ RT On Continental

Pittsburgh-S. Diego-$144+ RT On Continental

Pittsburgh-S. Francisco-$144+ RT On Continental

Sale/Clearance Shoes At Endless.com
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Mens’ Shoes At Endless.com
Women’s Shoes At Endless.com
Kids Shoes At Endless.com
Handbags At Endless.com

Endless.com:
-Is an Amazon owned site, you just login with your Amazon login info!
-Ships your shoes out overnight for negative $5/order. (Hint: Order 1 pair of shoes per order!)
-Offers an entire year to return shoes that you don’t like-and return shipping is free as well!
-Offers a 110% price guarantee, so if you find a cheaper price on another site, or even if their own price goes down, you will get a refund of 110% of the difference!

Offer Linky 

-10,000 miles for opening up the checking account.

-7,500 miles for opening a Continental/Chase debit card. ($25 annual fee)

-7,500 miles for adding 3 additional cardholders.

When you’re done you’ll have enough miles for either:

-A free domestic ticket.

-36% of a ticket to Israel in coach

-25% of a ticket to Israel in businessfirst

You guys will just have to bear with me.

Believe it or not, I am a sports fan as well as a technology geek and a frequent flyer miles hoarder.

I’m a die-hard Tribe fan, and I realize that this is the first time that the Indians will be playing October baseball since I started ctownbochur.com, so you’ll still have to get used to skipping over these posts instead of commenting “stick to the deals.”

At any rate, I just love what the internet has done to buying tickets.

In 1995 when the Indians made their first playoff birth in 41 years, they raffled off the right to buy postseason tickets by postcards only. As a baseball-crazed 10 year old I stayed up day and night sending out literally hundreds of postcards at 20 cents apiece to have the chance to buy face-value tickets. It paid off-I had tickets to all 3 home World Series games, and then some. Unfortunately there was no Ebay yet, so I had to make do with selling my excess to local brokers to cover the costs of my own tickets and the postcards!

Flash forward 12 years, the Indians sell their tickets online only to those with a pre-sale code. Let me tell you, getting 8 tickets to all 3 possible ALDS home games online via pre-sale codes are a lot easier to handle than hand-writing all of those postcards! (Plus I still had the $35 Ticketmaster GC to use)

So, now only one question remains: Is “TBD” the BoSox or the Bronx Bombers?

Who cares? Bring ‘em on!

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AMEX ExpressPay is the same as MasterCard Paypass, it’s an RFID tag embedded into your credit card.  You just have to wave it in front of the credit card machine to accept the charge.

Only certain AMEX cards currently have ExpressPay, but don’t worry-your Starwood AMEX does!

Save an additional 5% on Continental tickets by using your Chase Continental MC and using the code: Onepass

Baltimore-Los Angeles-$124+ RT On USAirways

Pittsburgh-Phoenix-$138+ RT On multiple carriers.

Pittsburgh-Tucson-$138+ RT On multiple carriers.

Philadelphia-Phoenix-$138+ RT On multiple carriers.

Philadelphia-Tucson-$138+ RT On multiple carriers.

Cincinnati-S. Juan-$153+ RT On Continental

Pittsburgh-Los Angeles-$158+ RT On Northwest

Cleveland-S. Francisco-$164+ RT On United

Cleveland-Los Angeles-$164+ RT On United

Philadelphia-S. Francisco-$164+ RT On Continental

Pittsburgh-S. Francisco-$164+ RT On Continental

Pittsburgh-Seattle-$164+ RT On Continental

Philadelphia-Seattle-$164+ RT On Continental

NYC-S. Juan-$166+ RT On Continental

Coupon Linky (Exp. 09/23)

If you’re in the mall anyway, seems like it’s worth stopping by…

“Earn 500 AAdvantage miles just for attending a Lifestyle system demonstration at your Bose store through October 4th.”

Offer Linky

Bose Store Locater Linky

This is today’s woot, so hurry up if you want to buy it before it sells out!
Woot.com linky
Be sure to check out the “emergency” open letter about the woot’s zune price drop as well…no surprise here, but these guys are funny!

Hurry: The $118 flights that fall within the promo’s date ranges are disappearing rapidly!

This flight is now the cheapest one that qualifies for the AA bonus miles promo!
Chicago/ORD-Las Vegas-$118+ RT On AA and other carriers.

Update 2: Everything is sold out again!


Update: More BusinessFirst tickets are now available!!! Hurry! First-Come, First-served!

Please contact Joel at <number redacted>

Available for Sukkos or Pesach travel-prices will range from just $2500 to $3500 based on travel dates!



Originally posted 09/06:

Thank You For The Absolutely Incredible Response! Everything Has Been Sold!

Gourmet kosher meal menu, created by Israel’s finest chefs.

Take A Tour Of Continental’s BusinessFirst B777 6.5 foot sleeper seat.
Read More About Continental’s BusinessFirst experience.

I have a very limited amount of tickets available from Newark to Tel Aviv nonstop on Continental Airlines for sale. (Connections via Newark are available as well)

Continental’s Boeing 777′s only have 2 classes to Israel, BusinessFirst and Coach.
BusinessFirst comes with complimentary access to airport clubs in Newark and Tel Aviv, where you’ll be able to enjoy the complimentary wi-fi and drinks, take a shower, or even get your suit pressed.


The tickets can be used for this Sukkos or Pesach!

These are not mileage tickets-they are confirmed BusinessFirst tickets that will earn full mileage, and 150% elite miles.


Sample Date: Prices will vary, depending on the exact date/flight desired.

April 14-April 30, 2008: (Pesach)
Price on Continental.com for BusinessFirst, including taxes from Newark-Tel Aviv (Booking class: BusinessFirst-D): $4,974.00

Dansdeals.com One Time Special for BusinessFirst, including taxes from Newark-Tel Aviv (Booking class: BusinessFirst-D): $2,499.99

This is definitely in response to Southwest’s Fly 2 Fly Free Offer…


A quick search revealed that non-stop tickets between Chicago and Phoenix on AA are $150+$20 tax RT for a total of just $170.  Use AA.com’s nifty price and schedule feature to find the best flight options.

4 round-trips, a $680 expenditure, would net you over 63,000 miles including flight miles (11,600), bonus miles (50,000), credit card miles (680), and booking bonuses (1,000). If you have AA Gold or Platinum status you would get 25-100% more bonus flight miles. It’s not hard to get a value of over 5 cents with AAdvantage miles, arguably the easiest miles to redeem in the airline industry…


Offer Details: (AA’s language here is pretty clear and straightforward, so I’m not going to bother paraphrasing it)


Dates:
Book your trip between September 13, 2007 and November 15, 2007.
Travel between September 13, 2007 and November 15, 2007.


Offer:
American Airlines is kicking off the fall season with a great new offer! Just book and fly two qualifying round trips on select flights between now and November 15, 2007, and earn 25,000 AAdvantage bonus miles – enough miles for a free Economy Class award ticket to anywhere we fly within the continental U.S. and Canada.

Or, even better, fly four round trips and earn an additional 25,000 bonus miles, for a total of 50,000 miles. With all those miles, you’ll be able to travel to Europe, Japan, Mexico, the Caribbean, or Hawaii! You decide where your miles will take you!

Here is how it works:
Book and fly at least two qualifying round trips on nonstop flights on American Airlines to or from the cities noted below:


Between Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (DFW) and:
Oakland, CA (OAK)
Portland, OR (PDX)
San Francisco, CA (SFO)
San Jose, CA (SJC)

Between Chicago, IL (ORD) and:
Las Vegas, NV (LAS)
Los Angeles, CA (LAX)
Phoenix, AZ (PHX)
Portland, OR (PDX)
Reno, NV (RNO)
Salt Lake City, UT (SLC)
San Diego, CA (SAN)
San Francisco, CA (SFO)
San Jose, CA (SJC)
Seattle, WA (SEA)
Tucson, AZ (TUS)

Between St. Louis, MO (STL) and:
Las Vegas, NV (LAS)
Los Angeles, CA (LAX)

Between Austin, TX (AUS) and:
San Jose, CA (SJC)
Seattle, WA (SEA)

Between Nashville, TN (BNA) and:
Los Angeles, CA (LAX)


To participate in this offer, simply register before you travel. Register online at www.aa.com/offers using promotion code AA25X

Denverites-You rock! Thanks for all of the offers to help me out, and expect a full review in the near-future…

Google tells me that there are a number of regular Denver residents that visit this site, so I figure that this is worth a shot!

If any Denver readers (or anyone who will be in Denver in the near future) can help me out with getting a sweet piece of technology only currently available in Denver (who knows maybe you’ll want one for yourself as well) please send me an email!

Thanks!

Sorry, but complementary pre-sale codes are limited to Clevelanders only, please include your name/address in your email request!


Baseball:

The Indians are all but guaranteed to be going to the playoffs!

Want to buy tickets? Send me an email for a complimentary presale password that will let you buy division series playoff tickets before they’re available to the public!!!

And as long as the Tribe can maintain the best record in the majors and Beantown keeps crashing we should be able to avoid the Yanks until the ALCS…


Basketball:

I also have presale codes for the defending eastern conference champion cavaliers regular season game tickets.

Who have done absolutely nada to improve Lebron’s supporting cast…


CLE Airport:

Continental Airlines announced that they are expanding their CLE hub by 40% in the next 2 years. This will include new international routes (London and Paris are confirmed, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv are rumored!) and shifting connecting domestic traffic from their over-congested Newark airport hub.

Yeah, but I hope all of these additional flights and spending will bring CLE a flagship Presidents club like Continental has at Houston and Newark!


Cedar Point:

Cedar Point was ranked for the 10th consecutive year as the best amusement park in the world. It has a world-record 17 coasters, including 5 of the best 20 steel coasters in the world. It’s latest coaster also took top honors for “best new ride of 2007″

Definitely worth a visit for any coaster enthusiast or anyone looking for something to do around Cleveland besides a sporting event…

Don’t get your hopes up too high-but it’s a cute ad…
www.sprint.com/islandoffer