Should you call when your application goes pending?
When applying for credit cards, it is common to not get an instant decision. At that point, you have a decision to make: Do you call the bank's reconsideration line to force a quick...
From Sapphire Preferred to Freedom Unlimited, No Waiting
On Saturday morning I published "Freedom Unlimited plan thwarted." Since I now have the top-end Sapphire Reserve card, I wanted to downgrade my Sapphire Preferred to Freedom Unlimited. This way, I could continue to...
Freedom Unlimited plan thwarted
Ever since signing up for the Chase Sapphire Reserve card, I've planned to downgrade my Sapphire Preferred to a Freedom Unlimited card. The former gives 3X for dining and travel, whereas the FU (Freedom...
Hawaii round trip from NYC as low as $362 per person for Alaska Airlines...
As per this Secret Flying post, Alaska Airlines is currently offering round trip airfares from New York (Newark) to Maui, Hawaii as low as $557 round trip. Alaska Airlines Visa Signature and Visa Business...
IHG Cardmembers: 15% Discount on IHG Points + Cash
A new cardmember offer gives IHG credit card holders a 15% discount on the cash portion of a points + cash booking for reservations made by February 12th, 2017 and stays through March 31, 2017. This promotion...
Better than Best Offers available for some cards
The Deal:
There is currently a way to find signup bonuses that eclipse those found in our best offers. While the best publicly-available sign up bonus offers for these cards range from 10k-40k points, following...
Necker Island award same price, but harder to get
Update: A few years after this post was written, the award price for a week on Necker Island increased to 1.5 million points.
After my trip to Necker Island, I learned that Virgin Atlantic was...
Credit cards with better than 2% rewards for non-bonus spend
Which credit card should you use to maximize rewards? In general, if you've signed up for a credit card recently and need to meet minimum spend requirements in order to get a big signup...
Complete guide to paying taxes via credit card, 2017 edition
Preparing taxes is no fun. No fun at all. But paying taxes doesn't have to be painful. In fact, paying federal taxes can be quite rewarding. The key is to earn credit card rewards...
Ritz offer dropping from 3 to 2 free nights.
Yesterday I told you about the soon to be gone Fairmont 2 free night offer. At the moment there are still a couple of live links to that offer, but they won't last long.
Now...
Fairmont Visa Links Gone [Previously: The other Chase card you should consider today]
UPDATE: She's dead Jim. All known links are now dead.
UPDATE: Reader Stuart contributed this working link: Application Link 1
And here's another link courtesy of Doctor of Credit in case Link 1 goes down: Application...
Can you game the World of Hyatt with your Citi Prestige card?
Beginning March 1 2017, Hyatt will dump their Gold Passport loyalty program in favor of the new World of Hyatt. To get caught up on the changes, please see:
5 things I love about...
Southwest Business 60K Offer is Back!
The Chase Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Premier Business Card is now available with a 60,000 point after $3K spend signup offer!
Points earned from Southwest credit cards do count towards the Southwest Companion Pass. To...
Why Amtrak? Alaska? Virgin Atlantic? The reasons behind my application spree.
In my recent posts "My end of year App-No-Rama application spree. 147K and counting." and the follow-ups "Chase IHG was the +1 at my application spree party" and "Results of my end of year...
