- Do this now: Register for 5x Q3 categories:
– Chase Freedom (Flex): Gas, EV charging, public transit, “select” live entertainment, and the United Way
– Discover IT: Gas, transportation, and drug stores
– Citi Dividend: Gas and home improvement
– US Bank Cash+: I choose utilities and electronics
Gas stations are the obvious angle for gamers. - The Southwest Rapid Rewards Shopping portal has a 2,000 bonus miles with $200+ spend through June 29.
Giftcards.com is the obvious angle for gamers. - Barclays re-tooled its Wyndham card portfolio. The highlights:
– New Wyndham Rewards Earner Premier Visa 4x on dining, grocery, and travel; $395 annual fee; 90,000 points after $6,000 spend in four months, 30,000 more points after $750+ at Wyndham hotel properties; lots of stupid coupons; Diamond status
– Updated personal and business cards: annual fees go up, manufactured spend friendly category multipliers go down, sign-up bonuses go up, new stupid coupons, miles don’t expire
– Existing cardholders retain existing benefits and spending category multipliers, will be able to switch to the new versions of the cards in the nebulous future
There’s a lot of minutiae in this one, for more detail see this Doctor of Credit post. The tl;dr though is that this sucks for gamers. - Qatar Avios restricted award bookings, specifically:
– Bookings are restricted to first party and a maximum of 10 other people
– 6 of the other people are from your “Family & Friends” pool
– 4 of the other people are form your “My List” profile
– Those 10 accounts must have a Qatar credit card or flight credited to the Avios account and be at least 30 days old, though transfers from FinnAir also seem to work
Now is a good time to create accounts for other players that don’t have them yet. - The AA eShopping portal has giftcards.com at 2.5x as of this writing, great for AA status gamers.
How does this one affect gamers? There’s way too much here to know.