{"id":5638,"date":"2022-10-26T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=5638"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:18:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:18:34","slug":"wednesday-quad-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/26\/wednesday-quad-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Grab Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. IHG has 15% off of award bookings for card holders and for Platinum and Diamond elites<\/a> through tomorrow for stays through December 16. Yes, this has been around for a few days, but today is the first day that elites are also eligible for the discount.\n

    Be sure to reprice any existing IHG reservations in addition to looking at new bookings.<\/li>\n

  2. Southwest has a fare sale through tomorrow evening<\/a> for travel from:\n

    \u2013 November 29 through December 15 of this year
    \u2013 January 10 through March 8 of next year<\/p>\n

    Reprice existing reservations too, and note that if your spring break dates fall within two weeks of March 8, you might consider a refundable points booking on near the end of the promotion and hope for a schedule change that lets you switch to your desired dates for no additional fee.<\/li>\n

  3. American Express employee card offers<\/a> have now been reported for the Plum card, Delta Reserve Business card, Delta Business Gold card, and the Business Platinum card, which gives us the updated list of offers for up to 99 employee cards per primary card:\n

    \u2013 Plum card: $50 statement credit for $2,000 in spend per card [new]
    \u2013 Delta Business Gold: $50 statement credit for $1,000 in spend per card [new]
    \u2013 Delta Business Reserve: $50 statement credit for $1,000 in spend per card [new]
    \u2013 Blue Business Plus: 5,000 Membership Rewards for $1,000 in spend per card [new] UPDATE: There are multiple reports of $1,000 in spend required and $2,000 in spend required, it seems variable on this card<\/em>
    \u2013 Blue Business Cash: $50 statement credit for $1,000 in spend per card [new] UPDATE: There are multiple reports of $1,000 in spend required and $2,000 in spend required, it seems variable on this card<\/em>
    \u2013 Business Platinum: 5,000 Membership Rewards for $2,000 in spend per card [new]
    \u2013 Hilton Business: $50 statement credit for $1,000 in spend per card
    \u2013 Marriott Business: $50 statement credit for $1,000 in spend per card
    \u2013 Lowe\u2019s Business: $50 statement credit for $1,000 in spend per card
    \u2013 Green Business: $50 statement credit for $2,000 in spend per card<\/p>\n

    Don\u2019t sleep on these, each one is an additional 495,000 points or $4,950. (Thanks to Sebastian, Marrisa94, and Jim for new data points, and thanks to everyone who reached out to me yesterday noting that 99 * 5,000 \u2260 49,500 \ud83e\udd26\u200d\u2640\ufe0f)<\/li>\n

  4. Check for a targeted email from Discover for an extra 4% cash back on up to $2,000 in purchases by December 31. The subject: \u201cCongrats [name], enjoy up to $80 extra cash back\u201d (Thanks to an anonymous contributor)<\/li>\n
  5. Kroger has a 4x fuel points promotion on third party gift cards <\/a>starting today and running through Tuesday after clipping the digital coupon. If you\u2019re using fuel points to subsidize gift card reselling, you should be able to do so profitably with a little care. My current guidance on avoiding fuel account locks:\n

    \u2013 Create a new fuel points account with a new incognito session on the browser on your mobile device when not connected to wifi
    \u2013 Buy everything in one or two transactions total, ideally in off-hours (customer service counters let you scale this a bit)
    \u2013 Do your best to work with a fuel points end-user that can use the points within an hour or two of loading<\/p>\n

    Good luck!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Showing my work from the math in yesterday\u2019s post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    IHG has 15% off of award bookings for card holders and for Platinum and Diamond elites through tomorrow for stays through December 16. Yes, this<\/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":2,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638","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=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6916,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions\/6916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}