With US Bank’s FlexPerks program, flight awards usually offer the best value (see: FlexPerks award charts for flights, hotels, car rentals, and annual fees). And, it has been possible to maximize value from flight...
US Bank’s FlexPerks program offers several options for getting better than 1 cent per point value from your FlexPerks points. The details, though, can be hard to find. So, I thought it would be...
US Bank has apparently ditched their old FlexPerks Travel Rewards Amex card in favor of a new one. The new card is called “U.S. Bank FlexPerks Gold American Express Card” (hat tip: Doctor of...
Welcome to the Frequent Miler Week In Review series. Every Saturday we recap what you might have missed from Frequent Miler during the week. Enjoy!
This Week From Frequent Miler
Your Serve or Bluebird is still alive. Now...
A couple of weeks ago, I announced that Fidelity’s new no-annual-fee 2% cash back Visa Signature card is now available. Cards offering 2% cash back with no fee are rare enough, but could the...
Welcome to the Frequent Miler Week In Review series. Every Saturday we recap what you might have missed from Frequent Miler during the week. Enjoy!
This Week From Frequent Miler
Ignoring terms and flying cheap via 3 stacked...
The US Bank FlexPerks card is one of my favorite secondary points programs card. The card offers 3X points for charities, 2X points for cell phone, and 2X for gas, grocery, or airline purchases...
Welcome to the Frequent Miler Week In Review series. Every Saturday we recap what you might have missed from Frequent Miler during the week. Enjoy!
This Week From Frequent Miler
A case study of a 470,000 point application...
In March of last year, Citibank increased the value of ThankYou Rewards points for Citi Prestige cardholders. When used to purchase American Airlines flights, each point is now worth 1.6 cents each instead of...
Amex gift cards disappear from portals Recently, the best cash back rates for buying Amex gift cards have been through BeFrugal and TopCashBack. Yesterday afternoon a reader alerted me that Amex gift cards had...
Miscellaneous thoughts and happenings… Online Office Depot and OfficeMax not posting as office supply A reliable source has informed me that all of his recent online Office Depot and OfficeMax purchases made with his...
Last week I described how I used points from my FlexPerks Travel Rewards card to buy a one-way flight from Las Vegas to Detroit. The retail price of the flight was just over $300...
Update 3/18/24: I am once again targeted for a US Bank offer. My offer is to get 40% off when using at least 1 point up to $50 off of $125. I misplaced one of...
Overview
Reasonable Redemption Values (RRVs) are estimates of how much value you can reasonably expect to get from your points. With almost all points programs, it's possible to get very little value or, sometimes, huge...