{"id":7484,"date":"2023-04-27T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=7484"},"modified":"2023-04-26T17:57:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T23:57:18","slug":"psa-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/27\/psa-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"PSA Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Public Service Announcement (PSA): There are multiple reports that American Express employee cards are no longer coming pre-activated in the mail, and when you try and use them you get email telling you that they need to be activated<\/a>. It’s an annoying update, but it doesn’t change the calculus of employee card offers<\/a> for me at all. (Thanks to Jimmy \ud83d\udc10)
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  2. Public Service Announcement (PSA): If you want to book a Choice hotel for someone else, you can add notes to the reservation online<\/a> which seems to appease front desk agents. I’d suggest something like “Additional guest NAME<\/em> allowed to check-in for this reservation”. (Thanks to Jim for the tip)

    While we’re talking about Choice, I’m going to mini-rant about     their new credit cards<\/a> issued by Wells Fargo that people keep talking about for some reason. I think they’re crap, specifically because the Citi Premier card:

    – Transfers to the Choice program at 1 ThankYou Point to 2 Choice points
    – Bonuses at a higher rate (3x TYP or 6x Choice points) in nearly all the categories that the Choice cards bonus in
    – Earns a flexible currency
    – Can be paid over the phone with a debit card
    – Has a higher sign-up bonus
    – Is also a Mastercard

    Just get a Premier instead,     or two spread 8 days apart<\/a>.
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  3. Walmart has 1% cash-back, or 1x Membership Rewards, via Rakuten’s card-linked in-store program<\/a> and in theory it’s “Unlimited Use” (their words). You’ve got to re-add the offer an hour after each time you use it so double check timing if you’re on a run.

    In completely, totally unrelated news, Walmart sells gift cards.
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  4. Bilt will have a 100% transfer bonus to AirFrance \/ KLM FlyingBlue<\/a> on “rent day”, also known by the rest of the world as “May 1”. I know you didn’t ask, but in my opinion this is a screaming deal for business class flights to and from Europe. It’s also a screaming deal for economy flights, but the screaming is for a different reason. (“Row 39? I didn’t know business class went back that far!)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
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    Final PSA: These aren’t Peeps, don’t be confused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Final PSA: These aren’t Peeps, don’t be confused.<\/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":[54,64,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-points","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7484","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=7484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7489,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7484\/revisions\/7489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}