- Multiple reports including this one confirm that Chase is matching last week’s increased Ink Preferred sign-up bonus of 120,000 Ultimate Rewards on referred cards, which means in two player mode the effective bonus is 160,000 Ultimate Rewards:
– 40,000 points for the referrer
– 100,000 points for the sign-up bonus after $8,000 spend in three months
– 20,000 points for a matched sign-up bonus via Chase Secure Message
Of course if you’re in two player mode, each player can refer the other and based on a weird academic discipline called “math”, 2 * 160,000 = 320,000 Ultimate Rewards points. - British Airways devalued short-haul flight redemptions on AA and Alaska metal. A couple of notes:
– Alaska’s MileagePlan award prices were already cheaper for short haul
– Etihad awards are cheaper for short haul on AA
– Other Avios currencies like Qatar and Finnair have lower prices
– You can freely transfer Avois between programs
So yes, this kinda sucks, but there are plenty of workarounds. Never blindly accept award pricing in oneWorld. Can’t we just get back to fake travel blogger rage until the next British Airways Visa card heightened bonus comes out and move on? - There are two brokerage bonuses that may be worth your time:
– TastyTrade: up to $5,000 but only for new customers
– Schwab: up to $6,000 for new and existing customers
Brokerage bonuses are typically easy if you have retirement (or non-retirement) assets in the stock market, because you can ACATS transfer your existing portfolio to meet the requirements without a taxable event (but of course, I’m not a tax advisor and no one should ever take my advice about anything, literally ever, instead consult with an accountant from a weird academic discipline called “finance”). - Meijer has a couple of promotions running through Saturday:
– A clippable digital coupon $10 off of $150+ in Mastercard gift cards
– An automatic 10,000 MPerks points with $100 or more in Choice gift cards
Often the clippable coupons can be reloaded after each purchase on the same MPerks account, but I don’t know if that’ll work this time. In case it doesn’t, based on a weird academic discipline called “Information Technology”, it’s possible to have multiple email addresses and thus multiple MPerks accounts. (Thanks to GCG)
A credit card offer from a weird, non-academic discipline called churning.