Entries from CompareRewards.com tagged with 'MyPoints'
MyPoints.com's Double Days
Updated daily!: MyPoints (aff) is doing a promotion called Double Days, where they double their shopping rate on one selected merchant every day. Today, September 2nd, you'll earn 4 points per dollar (worth around 3%) at PacSun! If you're...
MyPoints Giveth, MyPoints Taketh Away
If you're finding your MyPoints (aff) account balance dropped by 500 points this week and you're wondering why, it's due to a big-time screwup last month. It seems that "an intermittent technical error in late July" gave some MyPoints members...
Comparing the Rewards Programs Mentioned in MSN Money Article
I'd like to offer a warm welcome to my new readers visiting from Donna Freedman's great article on MSN Money, "How to play the cash-back game." If you're looking for more information on cashback sites (also called rewards programs), you've...
Account Suspended/Deleted/Closed at MyPoints? Here's What to Do
Every couple of months, it seems like, MyPoints goes through and freezes a bunch of accounts it has determined are fraudulent, and I'll notice an increase in the number of complaints across the internet that, "MyPoints disabled my account and...
One Year Magazine Subscriptions Plus 500 MyPoints for Under $5
MyPoints is offering 500 points for each subscription you order from Magazines.com, AND they have a coupon for $5 off your order (it's mypoints5off and it should automatically apply at checkout). With the $5 off discount, there are several magazines...
Spin N'Win with MyPoints and One Million Points Sweepstakes
MyPoints (aff) just released a new instant win game called Spin N'Win with MyPoints. Members can spin a wheel once daily through April 30th for a chance to win from 5 to 10,000 points. Your chances of winning, and the...
MyPoints Increases Points Needed for Redemptions
I'm not sure when it happened exactly, some time between early December and now, but the minimum cost for a $25 gift card redemption at MyPoints has increased from 3,250 points to 3,350 points. Update, 1/6: Tipster Molly reports that...
500 MyPoints for $5.00 Annual Subscription to Real Simple or Southern Living
MyPoints members, here's an easy and relatively cheap way to boost your balance: MyPoints offers 500 points for every magazine you subscribe to through their link to Magazines.com. And Magazines.com has $5 specials on two annual subscriptions: Real Simple and...
SunshineRewards' Closure of Affiliate Program No Cause for Concern, Says CEO
In watching the life cycle of rewards programs, as I have on CompareRewards.com for 8 years this month, there's something I've noticed that happens to every program when it's on the downhill slide: it shuts down its affiliate program. Examples?...
Ebates Article in Washington Times
Ebates (aff) got a nice write-up in the Washington Times today: "Ebates.com links shoppers, store sites -- Coupons in a click." In the article, Ebates CEO Kevin Johnson says that 8% of Ebates shoppers are millionaires, people who can afford...
MyPoints.com Email Sends Members to Competitor Bing Cashback
In a MyPoints.com BonusMail yesterday, MyPoints members were told about the cashback opportunities available at rival cashback program Bing. From their August 12th email entitled, "Search, shop and save -- all on one site!": "Don't break the bank getting your...
CNBC Lists United Online (MyPoints.com's Parent Company) As a Top Performer
CNBC released a list today of four internet stocks that have outperformed the NASDAQ and Dow Jones Comp Internet Index over the past month, and it includes United Online (UNTD), the owner of the MyPoints.com rewards program. According to CNBC,...
MyPoints.com's Pot O'Luck Promotion
Updated with tip, 3/19 -- see below! MyPoints started a new points giveaway yesterday called "Pot O'Luck." Members can play daily for the chance to instantly win a progressive jackpot. You can play as many times as you want, but...
MyPoints Reports Lower Earnings for Fourth Quarter of 2008
It's no big secret that number one, the fourth quarter is the time when most retailers get "into the black," and number two, the U.S. economy is struggling which is impacting retail sales. So, it's not much of a surprise...
FTD Gives Greater Purchase Incentive to Competitor Microsoft Live Cashback Than to Sister Site MyPoints
I've been mulling this over for a few days and I'm having trouble grasping the logic of it. Maybe somebody else here can help me figure it out. FTD and MyPoints are both owned by United Online. However, you can...
MyPoints.com's $50 FTD GC Giveaway
Every day through the 8th, MyPoints.com (aff) is giving away free $50 FTD GCs to the first 100 U.S. members to click through a "Get My Flowers" link on their website. (Sorry, Canadians...you're excluded from this promo.) The "day" for...
MyPoints VP Talks Up Loyalty Programs
There's an interview on MediaPost.com today with MyPoints.com's Senior VP Stefan DeCota. In it, he talks about the value that loyalty programs like MyPoints can bring to businesses who choose to advertise with them, taking advantage of their targeted demographics....
MyPoints Gets New President
There has been some shuffling about of responsibilities over at United Online as of late, and the news yesterday was that MyPoints.com's president (and long-time executive in various positions) John Fullmer has been replaced with Matt Wisk, who has been...
MyPoints' Owner United Online Discusses Third Quarter Performance
In a conference call with stock analysts this week, United Online -- the parent company of MyPoints -- discussed the company's performance in the third quarter. United Online's President and CEO Mark Goldston said that despite the difficult economic climate...
Shaloha: BzzAgent Points Converted to MyPoints
The BzzAgent word of mouth marketing program has been promising a change to their points system, and today the change went into effect. Through June 9th, BzzAgents can log into their accounts and request to have their points converted into...
MyPoints.com's Owner United Online Quarterly Talk With Stock Analysts
On Monday, SeekingAlpha.com posted its transcript of United Online's quarterly conference call with stock analysts, held on May 6th. As you know, UNTD owns MyPoints (along with Classmates.com, NetZero, and its most recent acquisition, FTD). Classmates Media, the segment of...
MyPoints' Owner Buys FTD
Yesterday, United Online (MyPoints.com's owner) announced it was buying FTD for $800 million. Among other reasons given by United Online's CEO Mark Goldston for the unusual acquisition, UNTD wants to diversify its revenue streams. Also interesting: "We will explore opportunities...
Earn Free Amazon GCs
Everybody loves free GCs, especially when they're from Amazon! Amazon is a favorite merchant of a lot of online shoppers because of its great promotions, including free super-saver shipping on $25 orders, and because it doesn't charge sales tax. While...
MyPoints' Web Search Shares Member Names with Other Websites
Update, 2/27: MyPoints immediately corrected the problem; see the comments to this post. Thanks, MyPoints! I don't know if I'd call this a major privacy violation, but I've noticed it and thought that MyPoints members should be aware of it:...
Latest on MyPoints Following Failed IPO
The quarterly conference call between MyPoints.com's owner, United Online, and its investors took place last night and SeekingAlpha was kind enough to post a transcript of the call. According to Mark Goldston, United Online's CEO (the guy you see in...
Rewards for Valentine's Flowers
You're going to order flowers for Valentine's Day, you might as well earn the most rewards for it, right? I re-examined shopping rates for at 15 online florists for these rewards programs (click the program's name to join the site...
2007 Year in Review
It's been a year (and two weeks!) in the making, but here's my annual review of the big events in the rewards program biz from last year! It was a long and eventful year, and not a terribly good one...
MyPoints' Owner Pulls IPO Due to "Current Market Conditions"
Classmates Media, which consists of rewards program MyPoints and social networking site Classmates.com, was supposed to release their stock IPO today, but they pulled out this morning. In this press release, United Online (MyPoints' and Classmates' current owner) said that...
MyPoints' IPO This Week - Roadshow's Insights Into Classmates Media Corporation
Updated, 12/10 As I've mentioned here before, United Online, the current owner of MyPoints (aff), has bundled MyPoints into a new corporation along with Classmates.com, called Classmates Media Corporation. This stock will be publicly traded, with its IPO ("initial public...
Debit Rewards Programs Can Offer Higher Cash Back
My bank formerly had a debit rewards program offered through Visa Extras Rewards, but this year it switched over to a program run by Affinity Solutions. Affinity provides debit rewards programs to several banks including Regions and US Bank. The...
Future of MyPoints Tied to Success of Classmates
In mid-August, United Online announced that it was spinning off its Media segment, which consists of Classmates.com and MyPoints, into their own independent company with their own stock. United Online will keep controlling interest, but they'll be allowing investors to...
2007 Shopping Rebates Comparison Chart
Note: this analysis was updated for 2008 here. It's October again, and with Black Friday just weeks away, it's time once again to take an in-depth look at rewards programs' online shopping rebates. A Gallup poll conducted the first week...
How to Choose a Rewards (Rebate) Program
The holiday shopping season is right around the corner, and maybe you're finally deciding to get in on this whole "online shopping rebate site" thing...but you have no idea what programs are out there or how to choose. For the...
MyPoints for Obama Supporters?
When I saw that the Baltimore Sun's blog had an article entitled, "Obama's brand loyalty program: 'My Points,'" I did a double-take. Huh? Obama is endorsing MyPoints? Turns out he's not endorsing the long-running web-based shopping rewards program after all...
Location of Today's MyPoints Back to School Combination Lock Game Entries
Update, 9/18: They seem to have ended the promo a day early -- no lock icons to be found! The locations of today's (Monday, September 17th) MyPoints combination lock icons, to click to play the instant-win game for points and...
Rewards Programs Fudge Membership Numbers
One of my favorite writers at SmarterTravel.com is a guy named Tim Winship, who co-authored a book called Mileage Pro -- The Insider's Guide to Frequent Flier Programs (buy it through my Amazon link here). He's written a lot on...
MyPoints Back to School Promotion 2007
Through September 18, members of the MyPoints rewards program can play the Winning Combination instant-win game up to three times a day. Members look for a combination lock icon on the site, click it, and click on all 3 virtual...
Busiest Rewards Programs -- Revised for August 2007
Last September, I put together a little list of how some of the popular rewards programs stacked up traffic-wise, according to their rankings at Alexa.com. Alexa ranks websites based on the number of site visits they receive, on average, in...
MyPoints' New Site Now Live
On Sunday, MyPoints.com went live with their long-planned new website. In an email to members, MyPoints said that, "You'll have all the same Point-earning opportunities that you love, plus a new format to allow you to browse more easily." I...
Comparison of Office Supplies Prices by Forbes
There was an interesting article on Forbes.com yesterday called, "A Penny Pincher's Guide to Office Supplies". Forbes put together a shopping list of commonly used business supplies like toner, paper and pens, envelopes, stuff like that, and then compared prices...
Disney Rewards and Disney Rebates
If you're a Disney fan, you are missing out if you're not using online rewards / rebate programs. It's as simple as that. Not only could you be earning rebates on your purchases at DisneyShopping.com, you could also be earning...
L.A. Times Article on MyPoints.com's Parent Company
Today's L.A. Times had an interesting report on United Online, the parent company of MyPoints. It discussed the company's history, starting with dial-up internet access provider NetZero, the company's merger with Juno, and its recent strategy to diversify into other...
New MyPoints Website Coming Soon
I enjoy reading the transcripts of the quarterly conference call between MyPoints' current owner, United Online, and their stock analysts. There are always some interesting tidbits to be found. This quarter's transcript, released late yesterday, is no exception. In it,...
A New Crib For MyPoints
MyPoints just signed a 5 year lease on new office space -- 28,500 square feet of it, in fact. Their new office will occupy the entire 34th floor of First Market Tower in San Francisco, on 525 Market Street. It's...
Are Rewards Programs Worth It?
That's the basic question behind today's Los Angeles Times article, "Rewarded For the Exchange." The author comments on the long waiting times for shopping rebates (using Ebates as an example), the "not major" rewards you'll earn "if you're not on...
MyPoints Giveth; MyPoints Taketh Away
Or, MyPoints Devalues Points Once Again This morning I received an email from a member who was happy to report having won over 100,000 points in the latest MyPoints point giveaway. She noticed, however, that by the time the contest...
UNTD, MyPoints' Owner, Forbes "Stock of the Week"
Yesterday Forbes.com had an article about the current owner of MyPoints, United Online (UNTD). A stock analyst had recommended buying their stock. The article described how UNTD had low debt and was getting out of some of its more unprofitable...
Earn Rewards for Ebay Bids/Purchases/Registration
I was asked to put together some information on sites that will allow you to earn for making bids or BINs on Ebay. To give credit where it's due, I started with the information provided by Andrew on RewardsDB.com and...
MyPoints Site To Be Redesigned
On Thursday, United Online (current owner of MyPoints.com) held their regular quarterly conference call with stock analysts. The full transcript is here. Mark Goldston, United Online's CEO, said that "The team at MyPoints performed exceptionally well this year...and we are...
2006 Year in Review
Wow, 2006 was a busy one in the rewards program biz. Not a lot of new programs last year, but we saw a lot of old ones fail... and a couple of big ones change ownership. How well do you...
MyPoints.com Holiday Promotion
Today MyPoints started a new promotion for the holidays, which they promise is their biggest giveaway yet -- 22 million points in all! MyPoints members must first register here, then every day they can play a matching game (up to...
MyPoints' Owner Discusses Quarterly Financials
SeekingAlpha.com has released its transcript of yesterday's quarterly conference call with United Online (the new owner of MyPoints) and their stock analysts regarding their third quarter financial statements. "We are very pleased with our MyPoints acquisition," said Mark Goldston, United...
MyPoints Rewards for Ordering Pizza Hut!
Get rewarded for ordering from Pizza Hut? Maybe! The scoop: MyPoints has an offline dining rewards program (it's affiliated with iDine). It's free to join -- in fact, they'll give you 10 points to do it. Basically you just register...
MyPoints
MyPoints Program Review - Updated 10/07 Please click here to join MyPoints! Date Launched: 1996 Reward Per Dollar Spent: Varies Minimum to Redeem: 500 for charity or $5 Juno/Netzero code, 750 for other $5 GCs Redeem Points For: GCs, Hilton...
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