The excitement of the week is the new Citi DoubleCash card. There have been a number of posts from the 1099 contractors who work for Citi about this card, two I noticed were View from the Wing and then at time of writing this, The Points Guy (he won the SEO battle!) so lets look […]
Archives for August 2014
I’m not sorry
I jumped in on the hysteria for the Avios devaluation two days ago. My approach was to alert readers via The Forum, and then launching out a quick email also. I was motivated to burn, and I did, and as I was booking my own award tickets I thought it would be useful to show […]
Using Twitter to get VIP level Customer Service from major brands
This post is a confluence of recent thoughts and experiences, as such, I hope it makes sense! This week we swapped a phone over from AT&T to Republic Wireless. In doing so the number ported over before we migrated the contacts. As such we received a text (SMS) message asking my wife “how was your […]
Saverocity Charitable Giving
A reader, and prominent member of The Forum has encouraged me to start up a charitable giving arm of Saverocity We will start rolling things out on this shortly, and I wanted to have the opportunity to share some of the initial thoughts here, so I could gather some feedback from you, the people. Please […]
MSing for Hotels – For Realz
I love the guys at Travel is Free, and think they product great content. However, I feel the urge to challenge their latest post: MSing for Hotels. It’s just wrong. See, the numbers may be right for points requirements ( I didn’t check them) but what good are good numbers with bad concepts? However, in fairness, MSing […]
Do you really understand affiliate links? [Advanced Strategy]
I call this advanced because too many experienced readers miss the nuances of affiliate links. And it’s important to get the nuances.An affiliate link is a hyperlink that has a tracking code attached to it for the purpose of paying the author once an event occurs. The event could be anything from just clicking through, to […]
Assessing a New Manufactured Spend Opportunity Part 1 Risk
I’m against sharing new Manufactured Spend deals on blogs. Not because I want to keep everything for myself, but because there is no reader quality control, and that means people are more likely to ruin the next big thing. Case in point, I recently engaged a friend over email regarding meeting a $5000 minimum spend […]
Sunday Reader Question – Will a United agent have Phone Sex with me?
Yesterday we moved again, for the penultimate time this year. Slow closings will do that to you. During these times my posts can drop off a bit, but I do try to respond to emails as much as possible. The issue I sometimes face with replying personally is that people start relying on you for […]
When to pay with miles, and when to pay with cash, an Infographic
Frequent flyer miles are a great way to travel for free (or close to it) but too many people over value their miles, and dip into their pocket to pay cash instead. The secret to understanding value, and knowing when to pay money, or pay miles is to compare the cost of acquisition of new […]