UPDATE: As of June 15, 2019, eMiles has ceased operations.
E-Miles is one of several websites that I use to earn free miles for taking surveys and answering questions online. I have been using e-Miles regularly for a few years now and I find that it is worth my time. While e-Miles.com does not earn me a large number of miles, it is an easy way to earn some free miles without a lot of time and effort.
What is e-Miles?
e-Miles is a free program that lets you earn frequent flyer miles, hotel points or gift cards, just by reading and reacting to marketing messages that have been preselected to match your interests.
You can earn a big chunk of e-miles for signing up (usually about 250-500) and after that you can earn 5-20 emiles every few days depending how many opportunities are presented to you. Once you reach a certain threshold of e-miles (usually 250 or 500) you can redeem those emiles for frequent flyer miles, hotel program points or gift cards.
The current partners you can transfer e-Miles to include:
- Miles: American Airlines AAdvantage, United MileagePlus, Frontier Airlines EarlyReturns, Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan
- Points:HHonors, IHG Rewards Club, Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards, FuelCircle
- Gift Cards: Amazon.com Gift Card, SpaWeek.com Gift Code, Restaurant.com Gift Code, Starbucks Card eGift
How E-miles Works
After you sign up for e-miles, you will begin periodically receiving emails about opportunities to earn extra miles. You can also see the list of opportunities to earn miles by logging into your account.
Here is what I see when I log into my e-miles account:
After you click on one of the opportunities you will be asked to view an ad or very short video. After viewing the ad or video, you will be given the chance to earn 5 e-miles just for answering 3 or 4 very short questions:
Below is an example of the type of short questions you would answer to earn 5 emiles:
As you can see the questions are very short meaning it takes less than a minute to earn 5 e-miles. While 5 e-miles is not a lot, you will be frequently be given a few opportunities to earn 5 emiles each time you log in. You can easily earn about 20 miles in less than 5 minutes per week.
Additional miles can be earned for making donations, signing up for emails or making a purchase but you do not need to do this to earn free miles. Instead you can just answer the 3-4 short questions and earn 5 emiles per opportunity.
Signing Up for e-Miles
There are a few ways to sign up for e-Miles – how you sign up affects the number of miles you earn as a sign up bonus AND redemption opportunities available in your e-Miles account.
Your e-Miles account will be different depending where you sign up from. If you sign up from e-miles.com, your account will let you redeem e-miles on one of your choice from any of the airlines/hotels listed above.If you sign up to e-miles from an airline page, you will only be able to redeem e-miles for miles from that airline. For example, if you sign up off the link at united.com, you can only transfer e-Miles to United. (I did not realize this when I signed up for e-Miles so I can only transfer my emiles to United. However one positive is that I canredeem e-miles once I reach 250 e-miles whereas if you sign up at e-miles.com the minimum redemption is 500 miles.)
The sign up bonus for emiles usually ranges from 250 miles to 500 miles but that varies depending on the link you use to sign up. (For example, if you sign up from United.com you can earn100e-Miles for completing theenrollment form andconfirming your email address and400MileagePlus award miles for completing 5 or more offers. If you sign up from e-miles, you earn 50 e-Miles miles for completing theform and confirming your email address and200 e-Miles miles for completing 5 or more offers.)
According the the rules, the e-Milesservice is limited to one account per individual, even if an individual has multiple e-mail addresses. However, in practice it is easy to get away with opening more than one account using different email accounts.
After signing up for e-Miles you are given the opportunity to earn miles by verifying your email address and certain other reasons. Here is a screenshot of the mileage opportunities given to me after registering a new account.
Is e-Miles Worth It?
Yes I find e-Miles to be worth my time in order to earn a small number of easy free miles. Over time, earning 5 e-miles little by little adds up. I would estimate that it takes me about 3 months to earn 250 miles just by answering a few short questions. While not a lot, earning those miles is very quick and painless and does not take a lot of time. Using e-miles is also a good way to keep your miles from expiring since a lot of airline programs require activity every 18 months or your miles expire.
What I like about e-miles is that I can earn 5 miles in less than a minute so I am able to log into my account even when I am very busy. By contrast, other sites that give miles for surveys have very long surveys. For example, I also use e-Rewards, but when I am busy I will skip e-rewards surveys since an individual e-rewards survey might require 20-45 minutes to complete.
Does anyone else use e-Miles and do you find it worth it?
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Charles McCoolon April 6, 2016 at 7:28 am
I used it more in the past. Now I check in every month or so and mostly dismiss the offers. It is a source of free miles, though.
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Ken in MNon August 16, 2017 at 1:16 pm
They used to be good, but no more. On July 3, 2017, I redeemed 2400 miles for an Amazon gift card. Before I could actually get the gift card code (it can take up to a week, and they don’t email it to you, you have to get it from the redemption history page of your account) they revamped their Website. My login credentials no longer worked, forcing me to create a new account (using the same email address). So I lost my miles and didn’t get my gift card. I’ve written to them repeatedly and have not yet received a human response, let alone resolution of my issue. Avoid!
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The Travel Sisterson August 17, 2017 at 1:25 pm
Sorry to hear that! I saw something about them revamping their site but have not had a chance to check it out yet.
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David in CAon August 17, 2017 at 5:12 pm
Correct, they revamped. Even if your login still works, their system has become dysfunctional. Your rewards get locked into a terminal “pending” status, you do not get many of the points you earn, they never respond to your requests for rectification, and don’t even think about making a charitable donation for points (you never get the points and cannot get your money back). Major, major waste of your time. They took a decent process and improved it by breaking it.
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Lyndsey in CAon May 14, 2018 at 8:27 am
I do concur with David. I was abruptly locked out of my account and they never responded to my multiple emails when I attempted to regain access to my account.
My hard earned miles vaporized and in my book, this a fradulent way of conducting business.
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Ken in MNon August 23, 2017 at 12:07 pm
I am happy to report that the company finally responded to me (after many, many, many attempts, including reaching out to their social media team on Facebook.) They have made good on my request and provided me with the $40.00 Amazon gift code that I earned.
That said, I wonder if they are under new ownership. The email with the gift code actually went to my Spam folder and I almost deleted it because I didn’t recognize the domain name, researchnow.com. Emails previously came from the earn-e-miles.com domain. I checked with Amazon and the code provided in the email was legitimate.
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The Travel Sisterson August 23, 2017 at 5:54 pm
Thanks for the update! Glad you finally got your gift code but definitely not worth it if you had to spend so much time to finally get it.
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Mark Channingon August 22, 2017 at 12:09 pm
An absolutely horrible service. They used to be very good until they changed their website. Now it is really bad. The worst part is that they never answer e-mails complaining about points not received. Also, some of their posts now are pure scams just getting detailed demo and personal information. You answer endless pages of questions but never receive the promised materials AND you don’t receive the promised points.
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The Travel Sisterson August 23, 2017 at 6:00 pm
Thanks for the feedback. Wow they sound really bad. Will try to login in sometime and check out the revamped site and update our review.
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Brianon September 21, 2017 at 7:18 pm
They won’t let me terminate my account! When I wrote them asking them to terminate my account they sent me a link to ACTIVATE my account. MY account is already activated!!! They’re inept to say the least.
Totally avoid. Do NOT sign up.
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Ken in MNon September 22, 2017 at 10:00 am
Just find a way to flagrantly violate their terms of service and they will cancel your account in a heartbeat…
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D son February 9, 2018 at 6:26 pm
Emiles is a scam. I used to sign up for charities and donate for a few years. Then i had a problem and it took weeks to get back to me . Some rude incompetant person just blew me off. Its impossible to opt out. I didnt go on the site for 2 years. I went on 2017 and saw the new format which is terrible. However i am a sucker for certain charities. I donated to one and was promised 2000 miles. I got 400. They claim the charity i responded to only offered 400. WRONG. I always write down how many miles to expect. They lie . I will never use them again. Dont Do It.
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