{"id":13942,"date":"2026-07-03T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13942"},"modified":"2026-07-02T18:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:37:27","slug":"friday-robinhood-is-a-louse-again-rakuten-quad-and-alaska-economy-to-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/friday-robinhood-is-a-louse-again-rakuten-quad-and-alaska-economy-to-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday: RobinHood is a Louse Again, Rakuten Quad, and Alaska Economy to Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Somehow the company that thought buy.com was too hard to remember, Rakuten, was the biggest mover for the holiday weekend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. The RobinHood Gold Visa card<\/a> issued by Coastal Community Bank did the most RobinHood thing ever: They added 3% foreign transaction fees without notifying anyone. Nice.
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  2. The Rakuten Visa card’s online portal +3x rewards cap<\/a> increased from $7,000 to $10,000 annually, and reportedly the card added a $100 referral bonus which will probably stack with the 1-2 days per month periodic $200 sign-up bonus.

    This card mixed with a Bilt Palladium is an affiliate-revenue free unlock.
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  3. The Rakuten portal has an $200 \/ 20,000 point bonus for applying for a new Bank of America Customized Cash Rewards<\/a> Visa. The card has a $200 sign-up bonus after $1,000 spend in 90 days, and currently earns 6% back in the first year in several categories, capped at $2,500 spend per quarter.

    The double-double cash-back on Bank of America cards is sadly gone though.
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  4. The Rakuten portal has a $100 \/ 10,000 point bonus for applying for a new Citi Strata Premier<\/a> Mastercard. The card’s own bonus is 60,000 ThankYou points after $4,000 spend in three months.
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  5. The Rakuten portal also has a triple cash back promotion through July 5th<\/a>, and includes a few hobbies favorites like: Chase Freedom Unlimited, IHG, Sam’s Club, StubHub, and Viator.
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  6. Alaska Airlines has an economy award sale for travel booked by tomorrow<\/a> and flown between September 1 and November 15. Notable prices:

    – Hawaii: 11,500 miles
    – Seoul: 20,000 miles
    – Amsterdam: 20,000 miles

    If you can book this on Alaska metal, you may find paid upgrades to business class are rather modestly priced.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Have a nice weekend friends!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Slightly less modestly priced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Somehow the company that thought buy.com was too hard to remember, Rakuten, was the biggest mover for the holiday weekend: Have a nice weekend friends!<\/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":[54,19,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-miles","category-portals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13942","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=13942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13946,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13942\/revisions\/13946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}