{"id":10178,"date":"2024-08-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=10178"},"modified":"2024-08-20T16:55:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T22:55:06","slug":"tuesday-whoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/20\/tuesday-whoppers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Whoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Do this now<\/strong>: Register for 6,000 bonus Aeroplan miles on “select” Air Canada flights to Canada<\/a>. Based on the terms and conditions, it looks like “select” flight mostly means paid non-basic economy flights booked after registration, and for travel through March 31, 2025 at 11:59 PM.

    What happens if your flight is delayed past 11:59 PM on March 31, 2025? I dunno, but I image it wouldn’t be fun to clean up. (Thanks to Vince for sending me the correct promotion end date)<\/em>
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  2. Meijer MPerks has $10 off of the purchase price of $150 or more in Mastercard gift cards<\/a> through Saturday. A few tips:

    – There are Chase Offers and BankAmeriDeals for Meijer currently floating around
    – You have to clip the coupon in your MPerks account
    – This looks like the kind of deal that you can     reclip after buying<\/a> to repeat
    – Sometimes Meijer gas stands also sell gift cards

    Meijer sells Pathward and Sunrise gift cards.
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  3. Delta Stays<\/a> and Delta Car Rentals<\/a> have a promotion for MQD earning on hotels and car rentals booked directly through the portal by September 30 for travel by October 31, earning at one mile per dollar spent. A few random thoughts:

    – You can book VRBO bookings through Delta Stays
    – You can list things on VRBO, and sometimes VRBO runs promotions
    – Delta Platinum and Delta Reserve American Express cards have a Stays credit
    – For upcoming travel where status doesn’t matter, you might as well earn MQD
    – Delta Stays is not<\/em> the same thing as Delta Vacations, don’t confuse them
    – Delta gift cards do not<\/em> work at Delta Stays

    Always be probing. Am I playing this one, asked no-one? No, because I have Diamond through 2030 thanks to prior shenanigans and as a result MQDs are effectively worthless for me until then.
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  4. Delta Vacations has a tiered $75-$250 off of a flight+hotel booking promotion<\/a> that seems available for all Delta Medallion members using promo code SMMED2024<\/em> booked by January.

    Again, remember that Delta Vacations is different than Delta Stays even though they’re technically the same company, so your AmEx credits won’t work here because I guess late-stage capitalism, or something.
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  5. Stephen Pepper at GCG has a thoughtful opinion piece on Pepper Rewards<\/a>. As usual, my strategy with Pepper is to avoid floating more (rewards in this case), than I could stand to lose.

    Side note:     John Reeder<\/a> challenged me once on my position about “floating what I could afford to lose”, and his counter-point is that in advantage play<\/a>, the Kelly betting method<\/a> governs your bets (or as an analog, money at risk) in order to maximize potential profit and indirectly minimize the risk of loss. There’s something there for churners; stand-by for a future post on the topic. Or don’t; you do you.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    \"How<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    AirCanada Aeroplan’s customer service center, but as a bedroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    AirCanada Aeroplan’s customer service center, but as a bedroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,53,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-gift-cards","category-points"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10178"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10200,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10178\/revisions\/10200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}