Hints For Tomorrow’s Password (Repost)

Chasing The Points

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This post is just a copy and paste from the post about Gift Card Denominations making a difference, but we’re experience a technical difficulty where the bottom half of the post is disappearing. I’m hoping having a separate post will alleviate this.

The Directions:

  • I will not respond to comments asking for the password
  • If you choose to contact me through or Twitter or the Forum asking for the password, be warned I will answer when I can, and I won’t give you the password, it’ll be more hints
  • I will not explicitly give you the password this time compared to the last time, I felt like I missed so many people doing a Twitter hashtag campaign
  • Understand what concatenation is


In programming, you will take variables and just connect them without a space. For instance if I were to concatenate “I” “Love” “U” concatenating them will become ILoveU

The Hints:


The password is concatenated in this order do not change it, if you change the order you will get the password wrong:

  • How much is 1 stamp worth that Cardpool gives you to pay for shipping? Just the 2 digit value. Don’t include the $ or the decimal point. So if the stamp was worth $.30 just keep the 30. EDIT: sometime between May 23 and writing this, Cardpool increased the postage to $.705. So the postage to avoid confusion, I’ll tell you. It’s $.69
  • Big Habitat covered a new online retailer and discussed a referral link, what’s the retailer’s name? Forget the .com. So if the name was ctp.com just give me CTP in all caps
  • On April 20, my buddy Personal Finance Digest took a survey from a credit card issuer and was sworn to secrecy and had to redact many things. I want the stock symbol of the company in all caps. So if it was Bank of America their stock symbol is BAC
  • What’s the airline code did Trevor from Tagging Miles fly when he and his wife traveled on a mileage run to Cairo? If it was British Airways, I want BA
  • On March 1, Kenny from Miles4More posted about a mix up in Mexico with Orbitz. He and his family were booked for the Mia Hotel, but Orbitz messed up and got him into an SPG property. So if the property brand was a Sheraton, I want the SPG brand name but in all capital letters so it would be SHERATON
  • As The Joe Flies writes about the trips with his family, he calls his daughter “baby X.” What is X? He usually abbreviates with a period, you can lose it. For instance if he wrote Baby E. all I want is the E
  • Kirsten wrote about Idaho and has some great info about the state, there’s a number of named waterfalls. What’s the number? For instance if there was 55 named waterfalls I only want the number, 55
  • On May 11, The Deal Mommy wrote about the Wyndham credit card and she discussed a vacation rental and gave us an acronym. There’s a few acronyms and to avoid any confusion, it’s the one that’s there 7 times in the post, I only want the first letter from the left. So if the acronym was ABC, I only want the A
So if you get it all, here’s what the example answers for the password to the post would look like:

  • Stamp: 69
  • Website name: CTP
  • Company ticker: BAC
  • Airline: BA
  • Hotel: SHERATON
  • Baby Name: E
  • Idaho Waterfalls: 55
  • First Letter From The Left Acronym: A
The Format To The Password To Enter Into The Post Example:


69CTPBACBASHERATONE55A

So that’s the format to the password you would enter, one long “word”

In case you couldn’t tell, I had a little bit of fun to create the password since it’s rare that I password protect posts.

It shouldn’t be too difficult, but it’ll be enough for the folks that will put in the work and hopefully foils the highly intelligent robots from Google. If Google can break that, well, I’m going to take the blue pill (Matrix reference, not the ED drug)

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nrdk

Level 2 Member
What a joke. Why'd you even bother? At the point you realized that the gift card exchanges asked for confidentially, you should have pulled the teaser post and made a different one instead apologizing that you're unable to present the information and let people know not to bother with the password crap.

Personally with the click-bait type BS you just lumped yourself back with the other bloggers. Great job and enjoy the drop in readership.
 

rhinodh

Level 2 Member
What a joke. Why'd you even bother? At the point you realized that the gift card exchanges asked for confidentially, you should have pulled the teaser post and made a different one instead apologizing that you're unable to present the information and let people know not to bother with the password crap.
So, there's nothing to see here? I didn't bother trying to figure it out.
 

Someone

Level 2 Member
Spoiler alert: nothing to see *at all* The only useful message in the post is that when the GC marketplaces are full of some denomination of cards, you should be selling a different denomination. You know, supply and demand.
 

Chasing The Points

Administrator
Staff member
@rhinodh it's hugely underwhelming, I had everything set up and ready to post and then I was told I couldn't disseminate the data. I wasn't sure what to do with the password and left it there. Given the uncompassionate and people's quick to conclusions from the comments, I should have removed it and taken other things out of the post to keep it unlocked.

The password is 69JETAXPQRWESTINM63E
 

raenye

Lever 2 Membel
@rhinodh it's hugely underwhelming, I had everything set up and ready to post and then I was told I couldn't disseminate the data. I wasn't sure what to do with the password and left it there. Given the uncompassionate and people's quick to conclusions from the comments, I should have removed it and taken other things out of the post to keep it unlocked.

The password is 69JETAXPQRWESTINM63E
I actually didn't mind the treasure hunt, but the two tricky questions kinda kill the fun there ($0.69 vs $0.705 and QR vs. EY).
 

Chasing The Points

Administrator
Staff member
Thanks, I didn't know Carpdool increased the postage. I had created orders on May 23 and it was still $.69, I did a little research and it was after May 31 the postage increased. Had I known I would have clarified that bit more.
 

raenye

Lever 2 Membel
Thanks, I didn't know Carpdool increased the postage. I had created orders on May 23 and it was still $.69, I did a little research and it was after May 31 the postage increased. Had I known I would have clarified that bit more.
It's actually a tiny bit better now if you're using the flat rate envelopes ;)
 

Chasing The Points

Administrator
Staff member
Right on! It's made it cheaper to pay the difference out of pocket. My new goal: cost Cardpool as much as possible until they call mercy, then I will ask about a higher rate across the board on all the cards and I pay for shipping
 

nrdk

Level 2 Member
@Chasing The Points I completely understand your situation with proprietary information and sympathize, however I think the approach on continuing with the post and leaving it active was where the folly was that got people (myself included) a bit torqued.

A simple and short redaction with the explanation when you found out would have been much better received, as I do think there is more than a bit of compassion within the Saverocity audience, it's just about the approach one takes.
 
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