The promo of the year lives on
UPDATE 9/14/2015: Updated experiment results listed below
This year’s best promotion has little to do with airline miles or hotel points. Instead, it comes from...
Re-dipping my toes into reselling
One of my earliest experiments with reselling came in 2012 when the British Airways shopping portal offered 36 points per dollar for first time...
Necker Island: 557,000 miles in the bag, 180,000 miles on the way, and my...
My Virgin Atlantic account currently shows a balance of over 557,000 miles. With most programs, I’d be pretty happy about that. In this case,...
Amtrak Guest Rewards 2016 — Better than expected. My take and recommendations.
Last week, I travelled with family and friends to a number of national parks: Arches, Bryce, Grand Canyon, and Zion. We used Amtrak points...
My wife scored another 70,000 points. I got a rock.
For the past 6 months I've been happily earning two extra points per dollar on all purchases with my Citi Forward card. Those two...
Yes, shared ThankYou points can be transferred to miles
One of the best features of Citi’s ThankYou Rewards program is that anyone can share points with anyone else. Most other major programs have...
470,000 points after $48K spend
UPDATE 10/1/2015: Please note that the 30K SPG offers described in this post have expired.
In the post, “319,000 points after $33K spend” I wrote...
Bet You Didn’t Know: Citibank’s New Online Bonus Spend Tracker
By Julian, author of Devil’s Advocate...
It feels a little weird to say this, but Citibank's been crushing it lately. Not only have they made enormous...
Chase Ink 5X? Send check to self? Pay credit card bill? Combine payments? Is...
This morning, via Frequent Miler's Quick Deals, I posted a new Plastiq credit card bill payment offer: Pay Utilities by credit card for free. ...
Pay Utilities by credit card for free
Plastiq is a card-based payment service that allows consumers to use credit cards to pay bills where credit cards are not normally accepted. Common...
Dealing with sticky Staples gift card problems; Matching SPG 30K; status matching forever; more…
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319,000 points after $33K spend
UPDATE 10/1/2015: Please note that the 30K SPG offers described in this post have expired.
Yesterday, my wife applied for 8 new credit cards and...
Amtrak to tie award prices to ticket prices. Sigh.
In the points & miles world, Amtrak (yes, Amtrak) offers some of the best bang for your buck when it comes to redeeming points. ...
$37.50 for peace of mind and 10,000 points
My wife just received a 10K bonus point offer from Barclaycard for her Wyndham card. All she has to do is spend $500 per...
