We had another devaluation this week- the Chase Ultimate Reward program removed Korean airlines as an award partner, drama ensued, and then I think it came back. As of the time of writing this post I haven’t bothered checking, because I really don’t give a crap. In fact, when the news broke (I imagine before […]
Archives for November 2014
The Cheapskate Challenge Winner!
Earlier this week I decided it would be fun to start up a thread in the Forum asking people how they would go about dropping the price of an appliance. The starting price was $1999, but it was already showing up as $1699 on sale. I wanted to see how people addressed the problem, and […]
A beginners guide to Real Spend
All this talk of Manufactured Spend but what about spending on stuff you actually need? I personally find this a fascinating topic because the two subjects really do go hand in hand, and perhaps by understanding one more, we might learn about the other.Let’s look at Vanilla Reloads firstA digression into MS for a moment. […]
TSA Precheck with Global Entry
I signed up for Global Entry because it was free with the American Express Platinum. Since then the Amex now offers you a choice of TSA Pre Check ($85) or Global Entry ($100). They will issue a statement credit for the amount of the application. I just used my Global Entry to get free TSA […]
A/B Testing Credit Card Offers
In my running battles with the affiliate company we have lost and gained links on a weekly basis. The present state of affairs is that we had our last bastion of Direct Links (the mighty Barclays) pulled, but in tandem with that now can offer what is called ‘banner’ links that offer cards from Chase, […]