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The DeltaPoints situation

March 28, 2014 By pfdigest

Over on Twitter, René of DeltaPoints has urged his followers to vote for him for the Frequent Business Traveler awards. Here's what that looked like: And here's a close-up: Do you notice anything missing? Here's a screenshot from the … [Continue reading]

Opportunity abounds! It all starts with the Garfield card…

March 27, 2014 By pfdigest

For some reason, somebody on FatWallet Financial posted a link to the Garfield Credit card. Here, look: … [Continue reading]

How much does a free night cost? Plus China’s answer to Vanilla Reloads

March 26, 2014 By pfdigest

THE TRUE COST OF A FREE NIGHT: Hack My Trip has some extremely cool charts showing you just how much it costs to earn a free night at a hotel via hotel spend. Check this out: … [Continue reading]

March Madness: PayPal reading your messages, looking for NCAA gambling

March 25, 2014 By pfdigest

A friend of mine who runs an NCAA pool every year informs me he got a nastygram from PayPal accusing him of running an illegal gambling operation. After receiving 20 $5 payments via the oft-maligned payments company, they wrote to him: … [Continue reading]

Trip report: Nicaragua (lots of photos!)

May 3, 2020 By pfdigest

A lot of us are quarantined and few of us are traveling, so how about a trip report that I never got around to writing back when I was a Serious Blogger? This one took place in January 2018 when my wife and I packed up the kids for another voyage to Nicaragua to visit […]

The one weird health insurance trick that saved me $23,000 on an appendectomy

April 24, 2019 By pfdigest

Howdy folks! Long time, no see. I’m not planning on getting back into blogging on a regular basis, but this story was interesting, financially speaking, and I thought I’d pass it along.I started a new job in late November. The health insurance for my old job ran through the end of November and the health […]

Done blogging for now

August 22, 2018 By pfdigest

I haven’t blogged much in the last year or two, so announcing my retirement may be a little redundant but… I’m done for now. I may post the occasional trip report in the future, and I’ll still hang out on Twitter, but it’s hard to imagine being as fully immersed in blogging as I have […]

The DeltaPoints situation

Opportunity abounds! It all starts with the Garfield card…

How much does a free night cost? Plus China’s answer to Vanilla Reloads

March Madness: PayPal reading your messages, looking for NCAA gambling

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