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Citi introduces an innovative new way to take away your ThankYou points

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Citibank has a number of credit card and banking products that earn "ThankYou" points.  If you have a Citi ThankYou Premier card, ThankYou points are worth 1.25 cents each towards airfare.  In most...

Best credit card offer ever. Hurry, only first 100 card members qualify

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That's right.  Sign up for the JAL USA CARD MasterCard and you might get a compact desk size calendar.  This is coming from First Bankcard, a division of First National Bank of Omaha. ...

60 miles per dollar, exclamations included.

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Holy cow.  60 miles per dollar is a huge portal bonus.  As I reported yesterday via Quick Deals, Magazines.com is now offering 60 miles per dollar via the AAdvantage eShopping portal through November 30th....

MyVanilla grabs my money and won’t let go

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Wow.  That didn't take long.  In September I reported that my Mio card was being converted to a MyVanilla card and I was afraid that the changeover would lead to my account getting shut...

Lessons learned from Sears 12X and 16X offers

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In early October, Sears ran an amazing promotion through United's MileagePlus Shopping portal.  For two days, they offered 12 miles per dollar for Sears' purchases or 16 miles per dollar for United MileagePlus cardholders. ...

Credit card planning in light of the AA / US Airways merger

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Now that the AA / US Airways merger seems to have cleared the last major hurdle, we need to think about how to prepare.  Citibank will continue to carry American Airlines branded cards and...

The top five ways to use Sears gift cards

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I often write about ways to get lots of points, miles or cash back when buying Sears' gift cards.  For example, see these recent posts: Re-Plinking Sears The top 5 ways to get...

Coin vs. Echo

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This past June, in the post "A new card to rule them all," I wrote about a new credit card device called Echo that could replace all of the cards in your wallet.  And,...

This, that, and the other thing

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As we head into the weekend, there are a number of things on my mind... Shopping portal holiday bonuses A number of shopping portals are offering bonuses for holiday shopping: AAdvantage eShopping...

Re-Plinking Sears

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In my July post, "Plinking Sears," I introduced the idea of double-dipping when buying Sears gift cards by earning both Plink points and online shopping portal points for the same purchase.  That approach works...

Cashing in

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As points-based programs devalue, more and more it makes sense to consider collecting cash instead of points.  I first brought this up a year ago with the post "Giving Cash its Dukedom".  Since then,...

Freedom 4th quarter 5X update

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Every 3 months, Chase offers new categories with which Freedom cardholders can earn 5 points per dollar (up to $1500 in spend).  This quarter, the bonus categories are Amazon.com and “Select department stores.”  This...

Any volunteers?

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UPDATE 3:25 PM EST: Thank you to everyone who has offered their help!  As of now, I'm closing the request for volunteers.  Why? I've readily admitted in the past that I need my...

What I really think about Delta’s frequent flyer program

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Last week, feeling hurt that United was getting all of the negative attention for their devaluation, Delta jumped in and devalued their SkyMiles program once again (see "Delta FURTHER Devalues SkyMiles").  That set off...

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