Last week, Kenny who writes on Miles4More uncovered a spend bonus that caps up to $20,000 and you will receive 50% back in miles. In essence, you will be earning 1.5x American Airlines AAdvantage/$1 spent for the four months (thanks bwiflyer). If you weren’t targeted, be sure to read some of the comments left in the post Read More

I wanted to write a quick write up on my thoughts to TravelCon. I missed all the events that Matt organized, #CharlotteDO because of my school’s orientation and #PhoenixDO because of an already planned vacation. There is a lively discussion for the next one, and I plan to do my best to attend the next one. One of the things that these Read More

Hat tip to jolesch on Travel Codex for asking Barclay about the Aviator Cards and discovering there’s actually two more. I called Barclay’s and the agent told me there’s actually a link that Barclay’s has that describes the four versions instead of the previously covered two with The Points Guys being the first(?) to write about it Read More

A couple of weeks ago I wrote that I would not sign up for the Citi AAdvantage Business card. I am here to write that I take back the post. In sum, I wrote that there are no downgrade options and I did not want to open a credit card and not have a future Read More

There are new entrants every day entering the manufactured spending scene. Sadly, many of them don’t know where to start. It frustrates many people established in this hobby when the newbies call their credit card company or the vendors asking questions if certain purchases earn points, are cash advances, certain store policies, and many many Read More

I hadn’t seen this posted anywhere and thought this was some nice news. The rates aren’t a blow me away type of cash back, but it’s nice to see. CardCash: I saw on Cashback Monitor that CardCash has a portal paying out 1.5% through Sunshine Rewards. Does anyone have experience with them? You’ll only receive Read More

I waited, and waited, for Raise to respond to my inquiry on bulk selling gift cards, but they never responded to me so I will run this post without it. It wasn’t a very specific query, just if they could outline what the benefits were of the Raise bulk selling program. In their defense, I Read More

Just wanted write a post and announce that the upcoming weeks that there will be a drastic slow down in posts compared to all of January and most of February where I had a post every day. The lack of posts is trying to catch up with school work that I have been putting aside Read More

Let me start off by saying the credit cards that I have are heavily weighed into the Star Alliance. I have several Chase cards earning Ultimate Rewards, one Citi card earning Thank You points, and one American Express Blue for Business earning Membership Rewards. Both the Thank You points and Membership Rewards don’t do much Read More