A World-Class Wells Fargo Wallet | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep303 | 4-25-25 | Podcast

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We tend to ignore Wells Fargo cards because there are so many other great credit cards out there, but they actually do have some compelling cards to consider. In today’s episode we’ll discuss which ones you might want in your wallet.

Main Event: A World-Class Wells Fargo Wallet

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Giant Mailbag

(01:47) – Re: Clarifying our “Beyond 100K Sapphire Preferred” episode, which you can read more about here.

Card News

(19:33) – Bigger Capital One VentureX Business Card offer via private banker

Listen to the podcast episode about the public Capital One VentureX Business card offer here.

Bonvoyed

(22:49) – Citi decreasing redemption rates on emirates starting 7/27

(26:24) – Read more about the OneKey Cash devaluation for Vrbo stays here.

(29:10) – A top up fee for priority pass lounge access

(32:10) – Read more about the Japan Airlines devaluation here.

Awards, Points, and More

(35:26) – More Japan Airlines (JAL) news

Learn about how to Book JAL with JetBlue points here.

(39:29) – More Bilt news

(44:55) – Learn how to use Bilt to pay student loans with points here.

(46:24) – United MileagePlus Showing More Awards After Changing Settings

(49:51) – Wyndham Points + Cash reservations now bookable with as few as 750 points

(51:12) – Learn more about Gondola here: https://frequentmiler.com/gondola/

Main Event: A World-Class Wells Fargo Wallet

(57:04) – Transferable points

(59:27) – Notable Wells Fargo credit cards which have transfer abilities

(1:01:07) – Notable Wells Fargo cash back cards, which can be moved to a transferrable point card

(1:04:33) – Here’s how you can build a world-class Wells Fargo wallet

(1:07:44) – Downsides (and fun hypotheticals)

(1:13:32) – See our current transfer bonuses resource here: https://frequentmiler.com/current-point-transfer-bonuses/

Question of the Week

(1:16:22) – How many of your millions of miles come from sign up bonuses vs credit card spending, and where does most of your credit card spend come from?

Read more about how to increase credit card spend here: https://frequentmiler.com/how-to-increase-credit-card-spend/ and watch our episode 197 about increasing spend here: https://frequentmiler.com/13-ways-to-increase-credit-card-spend-and-get-most-of-it-back/

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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder

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Fred

Can you buy gift cards with a DoorDash cash balance?

Pierre

No

Yashwant

I have the Wells Fargo Autograph that I got in March 2019. What are the rules around getting another SUB on it? Shall I upgrade to the Journey?