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Bet You Didn’t Know: 24 Hour Cancellation Policies For Award Tickets
By Julian, author of Devil’s Advocate...
I have the worst luck. It's practically guaranteed that the moment I book an airline ticket, the price will go down immediately afterwards. It's as if I have permanent bad...
Bet You Didn’t Know: Airfare Price Predictions and More with Hopper
By Julian, author of Devil’s Advocate...
There have been a number of attempts at predicting airfares over the last several years. The earliest commercial manifestation of this was Farecast, whose airfare predictions were good enough that Microsoft bought it in 2008 and...
Is the Sears double dip dead for real this time?
Sears used to be one of the most reliable online merchants for portal “double dips”. A Sears portal double dip goes as follows:
Click through an online portal to Sears.com and buy gift cards
Click through...
Surviving a Financial Review, Tracking Ink 5X Spend, Instant Savings with Wyndham Rewards &...
Welcome to the Frequent Miler Week In Review series. Every Saturday we bring you some of the best posts from around the web. Enjoy!
This Week Around the Web
Instant Hotel Savings With The New Wyndham Rewards - Using...
How to share Chase Ultimate Rewards with friends
Chase Ultimate Rewards is currently my favorite transferable points program. You can read my comparison of transferable points programs here. Unfortunately, Chase will soon lose Amtrak as a transfer partner, but hopefully they’ll add...
The multi-city cheaper flight trick still works (Update: Maybe Not).
UPDATE 9/22/15 11:42 am: While I've successfully booked these multi-city discounted fares in the past, it no longer seems to be possible to book them. For example, the discounted fares show up on AA.com,...
Arches, Bryce, Grand Canyon, Zion, and more via trains, planes, and automobiles
Here it is. Our fantastic trip west to visit four national parks and the Hoover Dam…
Amtrak Wolverine to Chicago
Nine of us (across two families) began our trip west in business class on Amtrak’s Wolverine...
How to convert Discover Cashback into airline miles
Soon, I have no doubt, many readers will be flush with Discover Cashback (see: The NEW Deal of the Year: Preparing for Discover Apple Pay and $2,000). That’s great, but some readers prefer earning...
The best ways to pay for flights
This post aims to answer: When regular airline mile awards aren’t available or do not provide the best value, what is the best way to pay for your flights?
Deciding how to pay
Suppose you found...
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 Discover. In particular, Discover promises to double all cashback earned...
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 users shopping at Nordstrom. I knew I wanted to take...
Warning: Portals No Longer Paying for the Purchase of Sears Gift Cards
Sears has changed the terms regarding portal rewards for the purchase of gift cards.
Applying for Credit Cards – Chase
Best practices for Chase credit card churning including how long to wait between bonuses and how Chase is now making it tougher to get approved for some people.
$15 off $100 or more of Select Gift Card on eBay
Paypal Digital Gifts via eBay is offering a $15 instant discount off of $100 worth of select gift cards.
