Sometimes when we operate in the travel hacking or manufactured spending sphere, I have to stop and think: is it right? I’ll frame your mindset with the following excerpt from the article: Mr. Burrows, the Financial Conduct Authority said, boarded the train in Stonegate without a ticket, then used an Oyster card to exit the Read More
In researching for my next post, I stumbled upon a gold mine. I am not sure how we, a group of highly trained expert manufactured spenders, missed this. We could have completed our holiday shopping with this INSANE offer. Can you imagine? The terms specifically state: Earn 7 extra points per $1 spent on qualifying categories Read More
I don’t want to cause any panic, and I want to label this as still developing. You may have noticed that the Ultimate Rewards Mall has been rebranded as “Shop With Chase.” I can’t tell if the underlying system is still Cartera. After the switchover to the new program, I called Chase to credit missing Read More
In the past, I purposely avoided cards that required you to dial in a number to change the PIN. If I can avoid the phone I will. I was at my local supermarket fulfilling the spend requirements to the US Bank Flexperks holiday shopping promo. Not paying enough attention, I wound up buying US Bank issued Read More
I wrote in the past about how you should pay attention to your favorite blogger, and this post is more of the same. If you haven’t signed up for the newsletter, you need to. While there will inherently be an overlap of information among all bloggers, but we all have a diverse background and cover Read More
Milecards was the first to report that American Express has changed the way you earn your Membership Rewards using your Business Rewards Gold card. There’s a few changes, but I want to highlight one specific area. With the latest change to go into effect in 2015, you will be able to select 1 category to Read More
US Bank offers the Cash+ card as a credit card where you can choose your 2% categories and 5% cashback categories. When the cards first launched, there were no limits to 5% and a bonus $25 when you redeem $100 in cash back. There was also a special banking relationship. Alas, they’ve no imposed restrictions Read More
As I wrote last week of my short review of Hotel Quote located in Taipei, Taiwan, I had a giveaway for an upgrade voucher. The winner is commenter heather Thanks for participating everyone Read More
Our really special colleague in manufactured spending, Milenomics, wrote a nice piece on how he stays connected online while traveling, his inspiration has me writing about how I do it. 2 ways that I can think of to staying connected: If available, you should go to a hotel that a phone for free to use Read More
The other week, I posted about unexpected news US Airways Mastercard. There was one outstanding question left about the card: I didn’t have complete details regarding the anniversary miles because they were keeping track of the conversations for customer service. Today, I have 2 pieces of awesome news: They are matching the current public offer Read More
