One of the first questions people ask, after finding out that comped cruises don’t come from mLife matches via Hyatt is: what about the shipboard perks? If you recall the chart I recently posted, that includes some real ‘goodies’.Since Hyatt flooded the market with Diamonds, which match to mLife Platinum, people are keen to know […]
Rethinking Loyalty – the next frontier
I’m undecided as to whether loyalty programs are stupid or genius at this time. I see them as stupid as I can gain huge value from them, but in the same breath, I see otherwise smart people falling over themselves to gain ‘status’. Status is a bad long term bet. You buy something with real […]
Extending the Two Browser Trick
The two browser trick is a way in which to multiply an event for your benefit. There are a number of applications of it already known, some published openly, and some discussed in the forum. Broadly speaking, the idea of the two browser trick is to ‘beat the buzzer’ on having a second item vanish. And […]
mLife Gold Complimentary Cruises
Part of my talk at TravelCon was a theory that I might be able to obtain cruise benefits from mLife based on an unwritten rule system. Upon my return, I thought I might have been wrong about this, as the first call to Royal Caribbean resulted in them sticking to the rule book, but things […]
The art of win
Sun Tzu believed that wins should be quickly earned, and the real skill of a commander is in the ability to assess the opponent, and the opportunity for victory. The war should be fought swiftly to avoid economic losses: “No long war ever profited any country: 100 victories in 100 battles is simply ridiculous. Anyone […]
Hyatt Charity Auction
Just saw that there were some amazing rooms on offer from Hyatt based on a charity auction. And while I don’t want to share it with you guys because you’ll bump up my price, it’s for charity, and I feel that I must.Head on over to Travel Codex to check it out!(no bidding on the […]
Preparing to Resell
I started collecting my thoughts on reselling over the weekend, almost pulling the trigger on my first transaction. It was to be $499 iPads that were selling on Amazon for $580. They also came with 20% cashback via discover, so a healthy profit. Initially I was going to buy $5K of these on Sunday, but […]
Barclay Launches 1.5% Cash Back card – our in depth review!
There’s a new player in the cashback space, and in a break from the norm, they named it cash forward. My initial analysis is that this is very similar to the 2% cards offered by Citi and Fidelity, with the major difference being that it offers 1.5% instead of 2%. There is also a 5% […]
Blogger Guide: How to score big with eBates!
As a seasoned blogger, I like to help out the newbies every now and then and create guides on how to make more cash $$$ from your readers (I mean your family, who you started blogging to help…)Ebates is a shopping portal that pays out both the reader and the blogger for their affiliate link. […]
Travel Planning (from Hell)
Travel Planning has been backburnered recently, but we have deadlines looming, here’s the state of affairs.Booked Trip 1 NCL Escape from Miami (Dec) Trip 2 Aruba (Feb) Trip 3 NCL Epic from Barcelona (Apr) Trip 4 UK (Aug) Out of this, only the Escape is really ‘booked’.. hence the travel planning: ArubaI booked 2×2 Nights at […]