Earn 600 free Avios points for signing up with e-Rewards

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• Nick_C says:

  7 Aug7 August 12:48

  A couple of years ago I was getting 30k avios a year from doing surveys. I don’t do as many as I used to. I reckon the earnings rate through e-rewards is about 300 to 350 Avios per hour. I have time on my hands, some of the surveys are really interesting, and some are really easy to answer. I pick up a lot of points through not qualifying – 25 points for a couple of minutes of mindless form filling while watching TV. You occasionally get new products to sample.

  The payment for surveys you don’t qualify for makes e-rewards worthwhile in my opinion. I’ve totally given up on Rewards for Thoughts, who give you nothing for a screen out and can offer a 25 minute survey for 50 avios (but is the same company).

  I was invited to join e-rewards years ago through Hilton, and it has been useful for keeping points alive with American Airlines and Hilton. I mainly redeem through Iberia, where the conversion rate is 20% higher than BA. I can also redeem with Etihad, EuroWings, United, and Virgin.

  I also do a monthly online survey with Tesco for 25 CCP/60 Avios. Details on the bottom of every Tesco receipt.

  • Secret Squirrel says:

    7 Aug7 August 14:07

    Does the Tesco receipt survey for 25 pts pay out? I done these years ago but found they didn’t credit points most of the time.

    • Nick_C says:

      7 Aug7 August 14:19

      Takes about a month for them to credit.

  • Andrew M says:

    7 Aug7 August 14:08

    I would echo Nick’s comments re Rewards For Thoughts but I still do the e Rewards surveys for Iberia Avios with the better earning rate and have claimed 1500 Avios on 09/02 , 3000 on 01/06 , 750 on 03/07 and have enough points now for another 750 Avios as they say “Every little helps ! “

• Alan says:

  7 Aug7 August 13:49

  Wouldn’t touch eRewards with a bargepole now – frequent emails offering studies with decent number of points. Fill out questions then asked more qns, then more qns only to be told screened out. Seems way more scammy than it used to be before and just a data mining exercise.

  • Secret Squirrel says:

    7 Aug7 August 14:06

    I get an average 8k avios a month. You just need to know how to answer the questions and tailor your demographics to get accepted & complete successfully surveys.

    • Hugh says:

      7 Aug7 August 15:15

      I’ve plodded on spending e-rewards for Hilton over the years. The best redemption rate is 8000 e-rewards for 7000 hiltons. e-rewards revamped their website earlier this year, making it impossible to redeem twice for Hilton in any 60-day period, so I have eased off a bit to avoid accumulating more than I can redeem. Indeed the reward rate has never adjusted to Hilton Honors inflation: one top redemption used to equal one Hampton night; now that needs three top redemptions, so at least 6 months. A more interesting survey experience with a quicker return is prolific.co which pays cash in £5 lots via Paypal. A Hampton night in one-third of the time, approximately.

    • Secret Squirrel says:

      8 Aug8 August 09:15

      I’ve also been recently involved in home testing of free products. Cat food, cream cheese, soft drinks & bagels. All freebies delivered by courier and up to 2k avios as a reward.

• Brian says:

  7 Aug7 August 15:38

  Commuting?

  What’s that? 🙂

• D says:

  7 Aug7 August 16:00

  Hi I can not get virgin miles e rewards invite working, keep getting error 404? Any ideas?

• RussellH says:

  7 Aug7 August 16:47

  I am wondering whether or not to go for this again: there are one or two points that I think worth sharing with others.

  1) **Ignore** the e-mails they send out. By the time you get them, the “opportunity” will have expired. If you want to do some surveys, log-in to your account and your home page will show if there are any active surveys. Be prepared for this info to be either out-of-date or not yet valid. Just keep clicking on the “Survey” link at the top of the screen and eventually it will usually start working for you. If not, try the next day.

  2) Accept that returns will be better on some days rather than others. One day in the last few days I got 725 points, in the middle of June 825 points in one sitting. Average for me is 300-400 points.

  3) The offers from hotel groups are far better than the one from BA, because you get a wide range of earning opportunities. In particular, Iberia is good, because at the lower conversion levels of 2000 points you get 750 avios in IB cf. 500 from BA.

  4) The e-Rewards Hilton site allows you to redeem on several airlines, plus Amzazon, M+S, Sainsbury’s, Lakeland and TK Max and a few other things. Iberia is always the best value airline, though.

  5) The Accor site is much the same, but being able to convert to Accor does give you a fixed cash figure to compare with other options: 6000 points = 1000 All = €20,– [Iberia is still better value, provided that you think you will get 1p per Avio.]

  6) The Ts+Cs state only one a/c per person, and they did make me close one a/c when I had ones from Hilton, BA and IHG. Currently I have just Hilton and Accor; I obviously use different e-mail addresses for the two memberships – I try to use different Top Level Domains for each currently one .uk and one.coop, {I have fr, .be and .de to choose from too.]
  I also use a different browser for each a/c and sometimes, if it lets me work, a different IP address.

  Finally, there has been (at least in my experience) a problem with transfers to Hilton over the last 9 months. I have had to wait the full six weeks and then complain. Last time that worked to my advantage because I got the Hilton points twice. Other transfers – Accor, IB, VS, UA, all take around 72 hours max.

  • thehornets says:

    7 Aug7 August 17:36

    Useful insights thankyou. Do you have a link to Hilton eRewards?

    • RussellH says:

      7 Aug7 August 21:09

      Sorry, no.

  • Secret Squirrel says:

    7 Aug7 August 18:58

    If you ignore the emails they send out, your potentially missing out big time. 50% of my active surveys come from clicking on an email invitation.

    • RussellH says:

      7 Aug7 August 21:11

      Mine always seem to turn up in the middle of the night (time of sending).
      🙂

  • cinereus says:

    12 Aug12 August 00:46

    What do you estimate your hourly rate is?

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