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December 12, 2010 - Rick

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Free Miles, NO First Year Fee, Two Lounges Passes, $50 Statement Credit, Fee Checked Bag

Chase (JPMorgan Chase & Co.)

One Years Lounge Access, 50,000 Membership Rewards Points and $200 Airline Incidentals Credit all for $450 Annual Fee

Brent

Rick,

Did you register the card after you first tried to use it? If you tried to use it before registering I think it takes around 7 days for the hold to drop.

If you registered it before you tried using it… since you are a person who is well seasoned with ordering from the mint… I can only think that the CSR you talked to from the Amex gift card 800 number may have recorded your information incorrectly. I always get some guy in India who has a thick accent.
M

My orders with AMEX gift cards got cancelled for the second time. I guess they're no longer taking AMEX gift cards?
Anonymous

My mint's on amex gift always go to HOLD and take an extra day or so over std cards.
Bacc

Rick as to the mint. My 11/26 order a mix of gift cards and credit cards was much delayed — seems some big non $1 coin thingy was happening to slow up the works. Order acknowledgment fine, shipping notice-half came before & half after and no early morning robo call from UPS. All arrived together. I've had no problem with the gcs.
Bacc
TexasYankee

I used 10 $500 GCs (duh, did not find the 1K cards)and the first 3 went through ok, The remaining 7 orders were cancelled by the mint. I then registered the cards and must wait for the hold to drop.
Tammy

Yes! My suntrust miles finally posted last night. Took about 5 weeks to post from the first time I used the card. Thanks!
Frequent flyer junkie

Rick
Love the Spring trip! it will be Heaven, enjoy!
Anonymous

Great delta posted I was very happy. What's the news with personnel are add. Holders getting bonus tool?
Anonymous

Rick,

My GC orders are showing in process, as are CC purchases, though oddly the orders billed to one particular card are still on hold, first time for them.

YMMV.
msp2anywhere

P.S. My Skymiles account runeth over, much thanks!
Lawrence

Yup, my miles from the second card posted as well. Germany, here we come!
Anonymous

Rick,

What a nice intinerary! Great use of miles and points too.

If I added correctly you will be using 370,000 HHonors points. Did you have so many HH points or did you convert some other miles to HH points? Are there any good strategies to build up HH points other than stays and stay bonuses?
etc

Curious if anyone knows any good deals for us folk north of the border. I'm in Canada and the best deals Iv seen so far are AMEX with first year waived. I got the small biz and personal card and have 40,000 points. But thats all I can find. Any other canadian frequent flyers?
afinetheorem

You're best off taking the boat up to Split (or better still, to Hvar, then pop over to Split). The road passes through a tiny stretch of Bosnia, so it's most common to take the ferry. Since the beautiful islands are the reason people go to the area, you should definitely go by boat!
Anonymous

None of my Delta has posted yet, but I was a late bloomer (late Nov for personal and Dec for business)
Again, can the personal Suntrust Bank deal get additional user sign up bonuses?
FrugalTravelGuy

Anon: Suntrust personal account authorized users? I can't answer your question as I didn't do it. Maybe another reader will or ask Kris or Megan
Rob

Don't forget you had to spend $250 on using Gary's service. People should know up front about that expense too!

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