In our third interview in the series I am proud to introduce Chasing The Points. He is the only player that actually lost money in Milemadness last week, I have confirmed with him that he does indeed understand the purpose of this tournament, and it seems he does…. Actually, despite the bump in the road […]
Archives for March 2014
Kihon
I like to draw from my experiences of living and training in martial arts in Japan. What I loved most about when I found true masters to train with is that there was complete congruence between intellectual concept and physical interpretation. In martial arts Kihon is the word that applies to basics, fundamentals. This is […]
Reader Question – Am I “right” for playing the game?
I received a question from a reader, and wanted to offer some thoughts from my perspective on this: Reader Nicole Asked: Am I “right” for “playing the game”? Here’s my goal, and my situation – I work full time and have a family that I’d like to spend more time traveling with. Up to now, […]
#milemadness Meet the Player Interview with MilesAbound
In our second interview, who unlike DCbroker has not been thrown out of the tournament for earning too much, thought he has come close a few times, we meet MilesAbound, currently in Top of the leader board, having averaged around $1370 in profit each week.Not much is known about this international man of mystery, it […]
Citi Executive American Airlines Card – AAdvantages and AAdisadvantages
100,000 AA miles, enough to get one ticket from New York to Kentucky using the Anytime Award from American Airlines round-trip no less! Or you could use it to fly from New York to Tokyo in International Business Class, return and then stop over for 9 months before then heading onto St Thomas, for the […]
Follow up on the dangers of Credit Utilization
I wrote recently about the dangers of Manufactured Spending to your credit score, in that post one guy in the comments called me out for ‘not knowing what I am talking about’. After I got over my initial reaction to punch him in the face, I thought perhaps he may be onto something. Time to […]
Credit Cards don’t kill people…
People kill people. As do animals, I don’t think vehicles do, guns certainly don’t.I am perplexed.Yesterday I shared the story of DCbroker, the man too big for #milemadness and in that post I censored the key tool in changing one type of manufactured spending vehicle, Amex Gift Cards, into another, Money Orders. This key tool […]
Meet the Player who was too big for #milemadness
When we released the scores for #milemadness we omitted the scores from one player. I was tracking the results from a non-blogger going by the moniker of DCbroker. He had a simple, and incredibly powerful formula for manufactured spend that beat all of the other totals, however, it also broke our rules for bankroll cycling.One […]
CitiBusiness AAdvantage Retention Experience
I just received the annual fee on the CitiBusiness AAdvantage Card, opening the letter by chance. This card annoys the hell out of me, and I was all ready to cancel, but I thought it would be best to listen to their retention department to see what they could do to convince me otherwise.The fee […]
Warning -Do Not Manufacture Spend as an alternative to Credit Card Applications
I know the site is a little Manufactured Spending heavy right now. I am sorry if that is a turn off for other of my readers, but I found it interesting to run the tournament, and what’s more, when I get user interaction from something like this, I get the opportunity to spot areas to […]