September 15
Right now Delta is offering 25,000 Skymiles for making a $500 Skymall purchase before September 18th. Thanks to Darcie on Milepoint for sharing the info!
This isn’t a promo I am personally going to take advantage of, but if you had a large Skymall purchase you have been eyeing, now is the time to go for it! You could always order 17 of the world’s largest crossword puzzles (coming in at $29.95 a piece) and wallpaper a room that way. Come on, it would be fun!
Are you going to get in on this deal? What would you order? I bet you can’t top 17 of the world’s largest crossword puzzles! 
Actually pretty tempting! Some of those hard to shop for people in my life may be getting something ridiculous from the SkyMall catalogue this Christmas!
what drives me nuts is i can never find a good redemption for the 25,000 miles at $500. Granted I know this is a buy for points item vs. a buy and you are lucky to get points.
2 cents per mile gross cost. Assume you could sell most of the crap in SkyMall for 40% of cost on eBay (net of eBay fees). (It’s New in Box!! A+++ condition!)
Kris, I love it. Do some early Christmas shopping.
@Jason, I hear you there. They don’t call them “SkyPesos” for nothing….though in all fairness I have found a few flights at the low levels before.
@NYBanker, very true. I am sure a few enterprising folks will do just that.
What about buying Marriott gift cards? For someone who travels a lot, that seems like a reasonable deal?
Chister, I like the way you think, but the terms and conditions exclude gift cards. Otherwise, I would be all over it myself!
Here is my results from this one
I got 10 TAB’s and and sold them all in 24hrs on EBAY. Total cost after ebay+paypal+s&H fee’s (including price match with SAMSCLUB for cash back) was a loss of $700
So, for $700 I got 1/4 Million miles at a cost of $0.0028 per mile. I will get 2 biz class tickets to Sweden (yes I find them all the time @ 100k with work 3x times a year) and have 50k left over.
This was a killer deal I just wish I had gone BIG!
@deltaGOLDflyer, wow! To me, sounds like you did go “big”! Two biz class seats to Sweden + 50K left over for $700 cost sounds amazing. Way to make the most of this promo.
What is a TAB?
…txs but should have gone for 1 million miles. fun to say I got 1 million miles from a promo. (I am now at 1.5 million total for year and should hit 2 million by year end – it has been a great year! – I still miss the mint coins – but ask me about my new fun game at the ORD DO!)
Sorry – Samsung Galaxy “TAB” or tablet PC (better than the iPad as it run Android!)
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