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With all the travel bloggers reposting the same tips and tricks, it’s devalued the points and made it too easy for lazy people who don’t want to figure out the game on their own…ultimately ruining it for everyone. If you knew where to mine for gold would you really want to tell everyone?
No doubt there is some truth to this. But there are also still plenty of great redemptions to be had if you work harder and smarter than the lazy people.
Except that the mined gold can become significantly less useful after you have mined a certain amount. After that point, you have to sell that gold (or in this case sell access to that gold mine) to others and get real cash to buy other things in life that can’t be bought directly with gold. And if you don’t do it, someone else will do it and empty all the gold from the mine. It’s a classic economic problem that would not have unfolded any other way. And let’s remember, most of us (including probably you) wouldn’t be in this hobby if it were not for these blogs and all the tutorials they published before the tools came along for award booking. So let’s not cry crocodile tears and try to learn something that can still be learned outside of routine stuff posted on these blogs.
Obnoxious Bilt Ads:
Because why not destroy over a decade of credibility to pick up a few extra nickels
I simply don’t think that’s happening. Their credibility remains as strong for me as ever, partly because they’ve already owned up to some missteps in how the Bilt ads rolled out.
Time will tell, quite soon, on BILT, and whether it can pull off the seemingly impossible, by losing its ‘too big to fail’ backer, Wells Fargo, who was losing $10 million per month on BILT, for Cardless, a FinTech notorious for no-notice shutdowns of entire cards (Celtics). No, no, don’t worry, they’ve ‘diversified’… yeah, we’ll see… February 6, 2026, winter is coming!
As always, I appreciate the transparency at FM. I’ve stopped reading almost everybody else because I don’t trust them.
@Nick Reyes: On fund-raising. How much cocaine do you recommend bringing back in checked baggage and do you recommend different amounts on Atlantic vs. Pacific routes?
Many thanks.
You’re confusing Nick with John DeLorean. It’s a common mistake.
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