Reader emails are invaluable to this hobby. It is from you we can share the latest on card issuers reactions and activities. This reader email will give you something to think about with Chase and Bank of America cards: Rick, I recently notified Chase Bank and requested that they remove a 30 day late payment Read full post »
Archive for April, 2011
Our winner from last week’s post on Priceline bidding for cheap hotel rooms goes to Nicholas! Great tips last week from everyone. Thank You all! Nicholas, send Rick your email address. Last week’s Winning tip: “One tip I have learned through many Priceline bids is to be patient. It is better to wait until the Read full post »
Madagascar? Maldives? Mauritius? by Andrew Ingersoll So I’m getting the urge for a big adventure. With so many places to explore, I want to do something a bit different this time: I’m going to surrender myself to you, the readers. The adventure begins! Living in Sydney makes traveling a bit tricky. It’s not difficult, it Read full post »
Last week I wrote about how Rio’s socio-economic gap provided me with a life-changing thought process. From Rio, I hopped on a free Varig flight, thanks to Varig’s Star Alliance partnership with United Airlines’ MileagePlus program, and was off into the “jungle” and Iguassu Falls. I can only describe how awesome Iguassu one way: breath-taking. Read full post »
That was quick and easy. The credit card bill came due today for $1,447 and on the statement it showed Katy had earned 112,000 points (not sure about the few points discrepancy). I paid the bill, registered the card online, and ordered our two Hyatt multi-night stay vouchers (worth $900 each) in a span of Read full post »
Enjoythose 5K nights Link And thanks Lance for the note.
We had the privilege of attending my youngest son’s closing performance of the University of Maryland Graduate School of Music opera performance this past weekend. (You can read his review in last week’s Washington Post.) It involved three nights hotel stays and I used three different money saving techniques. With a 6 a.m. departure from Read full post »
Kuta Beach, Bali, Indonesia © Andrew Ingersoll Rick, Just wanted to share my success story. I have been in the game for a few years now and have collected most of my miles (and my wife’s) by applying for the American Airlines cards. In addition we both got the 100,000 British Airways frequent flier miles Read full post »
What a different experience we had this time. Our last Washington-based document processing company was worthless. I ended up going to the passport office myself to get our passports with extra pages. This time, with VisaExpress out of Houston, the service was fast, straightforward, and reliable. They met their timeline exactly. For those of you Read full post »
I just got a Private Message in my FT account from a newbie that wants to tell me how he got 125K miles in his account with three phone calls. Catch this: He wants me to pay him for the information. “125k points with 3 phone calls…want my story? Hey FTG, wanted to know if Read full post »
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