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Pudding guy turns $3k into 1.2MM airmiles and gets tax receipt to boot

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Glenn FleishmanPerson was signed in when posted
12-14-2002
12:28 PM ET (US)
 I believe that the redemption company tried to screw the guy, too, in several ways, but fortunately he had done all the right things: photocopied everything; receipts for mailing and delivery; copies of the terms of the original offer. In fact, the original offer was changed when they figured out their flaw, but he still qualified. This reminds me of the deal in England that some genius came up with: buy a new vacuum cleaner (or was it washing machine?) and get two round-trip international plane tickets. No kidding! The value of the tickets was something like $4,000, while the device in question was a few hundred.
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Stefan JonesPerson was signed in when posted
12-13-2002
03:53 PM ET (US)
 Is it possible that the IRS will try to nail him for receiving all those miles? It is possible that they could be interpreted as barter income.
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roadknightPerson was signed in when posted
12-13-2002
03:52 PM ET (US)
Most of us over on http://www.flyertalk.com have known about this for quite sometime. There was a premiere outing to Punch Drunk Love organized by the PuddingGuy for FlyerTalk members a month or two ago...

So, not only did he get all the miles AND the tax write-off,
but he also got Hollywood to buy his story too. :)
Edited 12-13-2002 04:07 PM
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idogcowPerson was signed in when posted
12-13-2002
02:21 PM ET (US)
 Sadly, most of this happened just up the road from where I lived at the time. Even shopped at the same Grocery Outlet....
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Stefan JonesPerson was signed in when posted
12-13-2002
01:10 PM ET (US)
 Man. Here I was being all proud about snipping UPCs from Healthy Choice boxes I found in the break-room trash can.
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oogPerson was signed in when posted
12-13-2002
10:04 AM ET (US)
 this task reenacted, of course, by adam sandler's character in punch drunk love.
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