{"id":1988,"date":"2021-07-15T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2023-04-18T12:26:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:26:23","slug":"thursday-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/15\/thursday-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.<\/strong> <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/promo.united.com\/offers\/mileplay\">Register here<\/a> for your MileagePlay bonus offer from United. My offer was for 7,900 bonus miles for booking a premium seat fare that costs at least $350 in the next 78 days. Meh, I guess I won\u2019t be getting 7,900 more miles from United this time. I do have about $1,800 in TravelBank credit for unloading my American Express Platinum airline reimbursements, but I\u2019m not going to blow $350+ of it just for the punishment of flying in a United domestic \u201cfirst class\u201d seat, prolly on a CRJ-700 with a broken tray table.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> If you have an American Express Marriott Bonvoy card, <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/global.americanexpress.com\/enrollments\/oletenroll?campaignId=ggej0721&amp;offerType=ggej01&amp;locale=en-US\">register here<\/a> for 6x on several spend categories, up to $1,666 spend per category:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>US Gas Stations (am I the only one who finds the \u201cUS\u201d restriction strange?)<\/li>\n<li>Airline tickets booked directly with the carrier<\/li>\n<li>Car rentals<\/li>\n<li>Transit (Uber Eats should count accidentally as I read it)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Out of all of those, I\u2019d be only mildly interested in the Gas Stations because 3 x $500 Visa Gift Cards at 7-11 or Speedway would be easy and quick. That said, I was #bonvoyed and told I was not eligible when I tried to register.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Login to American Express, then try the following links for huge sign-up offers that are frankly really big, but you have to be targeted to be eligible (when I clicked apply on each, I wasn\u2019t targeted which isn\u2019t a surprise given my eleven American Express charge cards (thanks to <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.doctorofcredit.com\/american-express-business-gold-90000-points-signup-offer-no-lifetime-language\/\">DoC<\/a> and <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/dannydealguru.com\/amex-business-gold-90k-plus-300-vendor-pay\/\">DDG<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/en-us\/campaigns\/small-business\/bundles\/business-platinum-employee-card\/\">Business Platinum 160,000 Membership Rewards<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/en-us\/campaigns\/small-business\/credit-cards\/business-platinum\/apply-today\/\">Business Platinum 150,000 Membership Rewards [1]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/en-us\/campaigns\/small-business\/credit-cards\/business-platinum\/explore-now\/\">Business Platinum 150,000 Membership Rewards [2]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/en-us\/campaigns\/small-business\/bundles\/business-gold-ap-auto\/accelerate-rewards-automate-bill-payments\/\">Business Gold 90,000 Membership Rewards<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/en-us\/account\/login?DestPage=https%3A%2F%2Fglobal.americanexpress.com%2Foffers%2Fgroup%2FT-T_K5esfVqZcw7Kc9fDKA%3D%3D%26v2&amp;intlink=us-GABM-SS_Summer_2021_Offer_Hub\">Check your non-Platinum flavored American Express cards<\/a> for an offer for $179 off of Clear Membership<a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/15\/tuesday-tips-and-followup\/\">.<\/a> Watch out though, the <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/07\/thursday-twosome\/\">hack for two Clear memberships<\/a> for the price of one it <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/churning\/comments\/oinhzx\/weekly_discussion_thread_week_of_july_12_2021\/h4xo9iu\/?utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;context=3\">won\u2019t work out for the AmEx offer<\/a> but does still work for the Platinum. (thanks to <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/churning\/comments\/oinhzx\/weekly_discussion_thread_week_of_july_12_2021\/h4wi2jz\/?context=1\">jerseyguy195<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> If your <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/05\/this-weekend-in-kroger-fuel-points\/\">Kroger fuel points account was locked<\/a> in the 4x shenanigans, visit the Kroger website and print out an image of your loyalty barcode \u2014 you\u2019ll be able to scan that at the pump and bypass the lock.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1989\" height=\"236\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/broken-tray-table.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/broken-tray-table.png 420w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/broken-tray-table-300x169.png 300w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>A depiction of my last United tray table geometry in First Class, though mine was worse than pictured.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Register here for your MileagePlay bonus offer from United. My offer was for 7,900 bonus miles for booking a premium seat fare that costs<\/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":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,6,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-quick-hits","category-shenanigans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","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=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7249,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/7249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}