Discover extreme savings X 2!
This is crazy, nuts, ridiculous… in a good way. Similar to the Discover It Miles promotion (detailed here and here), Discover is offering new...
An interesting find on my way to Necker Island
Towards my ridiculous quest to visit Richard Branson’s Necker Island, I signed up for four Virgin Atlantic credit cards. A week on Necker Island...
SPG vs. Amex, Chase, and Citi transferable points programs. Which is best?
In a recent post, I compared each of the major credit card transferable points programs: Amex Membership Rewards, Chase Ultimate Rewards, and Citi ThankYou...
Options for paying to increase credit card spend. Are they worth it?
Signing up for credit cards is, by far, the easiest and quickest way to get huge numbers of points and miles. By signing up...
Bet You Didn’t Know: A $50 credit on the Virgin America card using the...
By Julian, author of Devil’s Advocate...
UPDATE: As of August 2015 new reports indicate that the shopping cart trick now results in a hard pull for all Visa...
A new comparison of Citi Prestige, Premier, and Preferred cards
Note: This post is a re-write of a previously published post: Citi Prestige vs Premier vs Preferred. Since that post was written, there have...
Citi ThankYou Premier keeps getting better
I don’t know how I missed this, but a reader named Mike let me know that the Citi ThankYou Premier card now offers 1.25...
Best credit card combos: Mixed rewards
This is part 4 of a multi-part series of “best credit card combos”. The goal is to find the combination of 2, 3, or...
2015 predictions revisited. Are we near the end of the SkyPesos moniker?
At the start of the year, in the post “Predictions for 2015, 83.3% guaranteed,” I reviewed my predictions from 2014 and published new predictions...
Free credit card spend. What’s left?
The end of free credit card spend
One by one, most free and easy options for increasing credit card spend have fallen by the wayside. ...
Membership Rewards vs. Ultimate Rewards vs. ThankYou Rewards. Which is best?
The big 3 credit card issuers, Amex, Chase, and Citibank, have a lot in common. Each offers a proprietary rewards program in which points...
Citi Prestige 4th Night Free benefit does not allow government (or conference) rates
This morning I posted the good news that the Citi Prestige card’s 4th Night Free benefit now allows booking AAA, AARP, and military rates. ...
Citi Prestige 4th Night Free benefit now offers AAA, AARP and military rates
The Citi Prestige card somehow keeps getting better. I bet that many get scared off by its advertised $450 annual fee, but I believe...
Half way to Necker Island
Late last week, a 150,000 point offer for the American Express Business Platinum card was published on a number of blogs, including Frequent Miler’s...
