The former is great for earning status, but be aware that too many cancels from GiftCards.com when shopping through the AA portal can get your AAdvantage account permanently closed (also known as with great power comes great responsibility, or something).
I’m not here to tell you what to do, but I’m happy to tell you that I transferred everything out of Future for now. You do you.
Southwest has 40% off of base fares with promo code BUZZER for travel booked by Thursday and flown between April 13 and June 11. Oh, did I hear you like blackout dates? Don’t worry, Southwest has you covered around major holidays and every single Sunday just to be annoying.
Happy Tuesday!
Southwest cuts pizza like this to be annoying too.
– Buy in even multiples of $300 – Look for the lower fee “Everywhere” cards if you know how to redeem them – Try for multiple transactions back-to-back
These are Pathward / BlackHawk Network gift cards.
In the early days of churning, there was a popular blog named Million Mile Secrets. It’s long gone now, at least inasmuch as it’s been effectively inactive since 2021 (and it was effectively useless years before that). There was a time, however, that the blog was great for newbies and also for bringing new voices into the community every week. At some point though it morphed into a churning reality TV show turned credit card article, and then just abruptly stopped. (Curious about the reality TV aspect? I guess google MMS Darius Emily or wait for the Netflix mini-series.)
It’s an interesting case study because from the site’s early days until it’s implosion, it went from having a codified rule saying they’d always present the best offer available card whether or not it paid them (they called it the mother-in-law rule and later mostly scrubbed that from the internet until only vestiges remained), and ended up as the kind of site that had 27 links to an affiliate Chase Sapphire Preferred link, all of which were worse than the publicly available bonus. Basically the site’s progression evolved like:
Always show the best offer
Hold off on posting about a best offer until an affiliate link comes in
Show an affiliate link, but note in small print that there’s a better offer elsewhere
Only show affiliate links, but tag some of them as best offer
On Monday night, the Chase IHG Business card released a highest ever 200,000 point sign-up bonus. Cool I guess, right? Yes, but that’s not the point. The point is that basically every big blog out there didn’t write about it until yesterday, even some of the “good ones”. Why did they wait until yesterday? I’ll give you a hint, it starts with an “a” and ends with “ffiliate link”. In other words, they’re on step (2) of the MMS playbook.
Now do I think the “good ones” are headed for step (3)? Generally speaking, no I don’t. But I do think you should know the motivations of the content you’re consuming, and you should know exactly how much your favorite affiliate blog is willing to withhold about a deal until they can be paid for it. But don’t take my word for it, it’s easy to go look around and see when your favorite sources wrote about the offer. For bonus points, check and see if they told you that the offer’s available via referral from P2 or another churner, or whether that’s a causal omission.
Well, yesterday a big churning door closed which rendered some back buttons useless, and I’m not sure another door opened despite Mr. Bell’s admonitions to the contrary. You’re not out of luck though, the hallway has multiple doors, so maybe just take a few other probing steps and see what other doors lurk in the hallway.
General cryptic MEAB disclaimer: If you have no idea what I’m talking about, don’t stress, it likely doesn’t affect you.
– 140,000 points after $4,000 spend in three months – 60,000 points after $9,000 spend in six months
This should also be available via referrals in a couple of days. (Thanks to ArchEveNix)
Wyndham is updating its hotel award tiers on April 15. Apparently 8% of hotels are moving to a lower tier and 4% to a higher tier. That means you’ve got until April 14 to book any Wyndham aspirational stays in anticipation of the price increasing.
I’d like to see the same numbers out of Hyatt in May. I’d also like a new, free Gulfstream Jet which seems equally likely.
Every one of these has a way to manufactured spend your way to your $1,500 quarterly. I’d suggest knocking these out on day one so you don’t have to think about them, but you do you.
– Have or had a Chase Marriott card in the last 30 days – Opened an American Express Boundless, Bold, or Bountiful card in the last 90 days – Got a sign-up bonus for a new Boundless, Bold, or Bountiful in the last 24 months
Can gamers still game? Undoubtedly. Or should I say, Bundoutably?
This bonus is available for referrals too, and remember that good things happen to 5/24 dreamers when new Chase business card bonuses come out.
The American Express issued Marriott cards have increased sign-up bonuses available direct and via referrals:
– Brilliant: 200,000 Bonvoy points after $6,000 spend in six months – Bevy: 175,000 Bonvoy Points after $5,000 spend in six months – Business: Five free night awards after $9,000 spend in six months
Of course use a referral instead of a random link on ye-olde internet.
Giant, Giant Food Stores, Martin’s, and Stop & Shop stores have 2x rewards on Mastercard Gift Cards through Thursday, limit $1,500 per account at Giant and $2,000 per account otherwise.
These are Pathward / BlackHawk Network gift cards.
Have a nice weekend friends!
The all new, always sophisticated, future-news-o-tron 2,000.
