{"id":10383,"date":"2024-09-24T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=10383"},"modified":"2024-09-24T01:54:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T07:54:25","slug":"tuesday-hits-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/24\/tuesday-hits-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Do this now<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com\/aadvantage-program\/profile\/promotions\">Register for a targeted promotion for 50 or 100 American Airlines Loyalty Points<\/a> earned per 1,000 miles redeemed through the end of the year, but only on new flights booked by October 7.<br \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/us\/credit-cards\/card-application\/apply\/upgrade\/business-platinum-charge-card\/63444-9-1-WOC15KMR24#\/\">There&#8217;s been a 120,000 Membership Rewards after $10,000 spend in 90 days link for upgrading an American Express Business Green or Gold<\/a> card to a Platinum card floating around in the darker corners of the internet, and <a href=\"https:\/\/frequentmiler.com\/many-finding-120000-point-upgrade-offers-after-10k-in-purchases-to-business-platinum-card-targeted\/\">it&#8217;s now public<\/a>. A few notes:<br><br>&#8211; If you have a Green or Gold to upgrade, <a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/01\/thursday-triple-36\/\">get employee cards first (see item #3)<\/a><br>&#8211; Do the upgrade<br>&#8211; Order 5 more employee cards with the new POID<br><br>Don&#8217;t forget that spend on employee cards counts toward upgrade bonus spend. Also note that this link is of dubious origin so calibrate the reward to your risk tolerance scale. I went for this, but just because I did something doesn&#8217;t mean you should too; it might mean that you shouldn\u2019t.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The American Express Hilton Aspire resort credit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hilton.com\/en\/hilton-honors\/resort-credit-eligible-hotels\/\">now only works at a specific set of listed properties<\/a>, providing further evidence that it&#8217;s easier to game these credits than to use them as intended.<br \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mastercardgiftcard.com\">MasterCardGiftCard.com has a promotion for 100% off of purchase fees with promo code <em>100MCGIFT<\/em><\/a>. There&#8217;s currently no expiration listed, but the email promoting the code has a copyright date of 2023 which should tell you something about Incomm gift card brands.<br \/><br \/>These are Vanilla gift cards.<br \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some Bank of America payment systems were offline yesterday and may be today too. It&#8217;s not you, <a href=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/17f51bb53aa7f9dfde1e28e15ce1da94\/df3ee95f7b8a9859-8b\/s540x810\/9fccdd578eea23ab4b4dbfdaf76a456281e1f33a.gif\">they&#8217;re the problem it&#8217;s them<\/a>.<br \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amtrak.com\/guestrewards\/promotions\/mystery-offer.html\">Amtrak has a promotion for a mystery, per-account bonus multiplier<\/a> on fall travel through October 31 with registration. I got 2x on my account which means I&#8217;ll probably earn 2*0=0 points between now and Halloween. (Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frequentflyerbonuses.com\/amtrak.html\">frequentflyerbonuses<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"726\" height=\"584\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-16.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10384\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-16.png 726w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-16-300x241.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Obligatory photo of Bank of America&#8217;s payment processing data center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obligatory photo of Bank of America&#8217;s payment processing data center.<\/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":[54,53,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards","category-miles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383","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=10383"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10389,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10383\/revisions\/10389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}