As long time readers know, I’m a Marriott fan, despite calling it the red-headed step child of the miles and points game. That post was more talking about the personal version of the Marriott Rewards Premier Card, but the fact remains that day to day spend is kind’ve weak. Marriott and Chase are doing something…
Thought I’d share a short post on some interesting observations from a recent call to Citi. Calling for my wife’s account, we were asked whether Citi could record her voice, to leverage voice recognition for account verification. Retention offers seemed much better than what I was offered earlier in the week. For my wife, she…
If you’ve been following the mile and point community for a while, you’ve probably seen a few disturbing trends.First we had American Express limit sign on bonuses to once in a lifetime. Then we had Chase’s latest developments, roughly called 5/24 rule.The fact is, churning credit cards is becoming more difficult. Don’t get me wrong, there…
Alaska Airlines, or rather Bank of America tends to send a good number of targeted bonuses. This is one that I received today:Its kind’ve a run of the mill offer, if you ask me, not terribly enticing, but also not terribly difficult to achieve.Here are the Terms and Conditions: *To be eligible for this offer,…
I’m not sure if this has been written about elsewhere, so thought I’d throw it out there. I received via e-mail and snail mail an offer essentially offering 15,000 bonus miles for spending $500 in each October, November, and December.The interesting part to me though is the terms and conditions: Offer is valid for select…
Reader Harvson asks via Ask TaggingMiles: I’ve been in this hobby for a few years now, but have dialed back flying and MSing because the former leaves me feeling guilty (as we’ve discussed) and working on the latter seems like a waste of time.Most of my miles/points spending and saving comes through the credit card route.I…
We’re doing a bit of housekeeping here at TaggingMiles, partially spurred, because we received this question via Ask TaggingMiles, from Scott. His question: I always see posts about great credit card sign up bonuses and such. How do you and others sign up for all these offers and manage all the credit cards? Do you end up…
By now, you’ve probably seen a dozen or so Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) AMEX 30k Sign-up Bonus posts. In fact, from a casual google image search–well take a look for yourself, I see a gaggle of the normal affiliate bloggers with posts — as one would expect, because it is a good offer. But in addition…
Chuck over at Doctor of Credit put together a rather exhaustive post on Chase latest actions on approvals of Ultimate Rewards credit cards.For me, it was a very sobering post to read. I, like many in the miles and points game, have a bunch of Chase cards. In fact, at last count, I have 8…
In April, I offered an alternative to way to maximize the Chase Freedom Second Quarter 5x without eating out.For background information: The Chase Freedom offers 5x Ultimate Rewards points on up to $1,500 in spending each quarter at select merchants, or merchant categories (see below):Just for fun, I tried the two different strategies with my…