{"id":8605,"date":"2023-11-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=8605"},"modified":"2023-11-20T08:15:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T15:15:17","slug":"monday-with-kyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/20\/monday-with-kyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday with Kyle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, MEAB features a special guest who will respond to each news item: Your annoying Uncle Kyle that always seems to have a take that&#8217;s tangential to reality but not grounded in reality. Why? Practice my friends, practice &#8211; because you probably only see Kyle at Thanksgiving and Christmas and it&#8217;s time to gear up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/awardtravel\/comments\/17wv38z\/you_can_now_book_southwest_flights_through_chases\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Southwest flights are now bookable through the Chase travel portal<\/a>, but only Wanna Get Away and Wanna Get Away Plus fares.<br \/><br \/>Kyle&#8217;s response: WGA+ fares as a 1.5 cent per point booking with low friction means that brokering of Southwest flights is going to skyrocket. Watch out!<br \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.officedepot.com\/l\/deal-center\/top-deals\">Office Depot\/OfficeMax stores have $15 off of $300 in Mastercard gift cards<\/a> through Saturday, limit eight per transaction. As usual, link your cards to <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dosh.com\/\">Dosh<\/a>, liquidate your American Express Business Gold $20 monthly credits, try for multiple transactions back-to-back, and experiment with different purchase amounts.<br \/><br \/>Kyle&#8217;s response: You\u2019re waiting in line behind someone arguing about a $0.45 coupon at a store with staffing levels lower than the half-sized aisles of InkJet toner to buy a Mastercard with a Visa? Are you even listening to yourself talk?<br \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chase.com\/personal\/merchant-offers\">Chase Offers has 13% back<\/a> on at least $50 and up to $307.69 in airfare booked by tomorrow. (No, I didn&#8217;t make that number up, why do you ask?) This is gamable in multiple ways.<br \/><br \/>Kyle&#8217;s response: I haven&#8217;t known anything about gaming since Tetris, but you know that booking airfare means flying Southwest right? Their boarding process is a mass psychological experiment and you&#8217;re the subject!<br \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>UPDATE: Dead! <\/em>There have now been at least a half dozen reports of <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.doctorofcredit.com\/point-transfers-from-chase-ink-business-premier-now-possible\/\">successfully transferring the pseudo Ultimate Rewards with a fixed 1.0 cent per point from the Ink Business Premier to real Ultimate Rewards<\/a> accounts from other premium cards, but only by phone.<br><br>It&#8217;s unclear if this is a bug or intentional, but either way the 150,000 pseudo Ultimate Reward sign up bonus for $10,000 spend in three months available in branch or perhaps via <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?s=green+star\">Green Star offers<\/a> looks extremely attractive right about now, especially if you can earn it quickly.<br><br>Kyle&#8217;s response: You know that those pseudo Ultimate Rewards points are how the government tracks your spend, right? Converting them to a variable value point throws them off because they can&#8217;t know exactly what you spent.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a nice Monday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kyle&#8217;s response: You do know Mondays suck, right? Everyone knows that because <a href=\"https:\/\/garfield.fandom.com\/wiki\/Monday\" class=\"ek-link\">Garfield taught us<\/a>. Stop being so chipper.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"951\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pie-951x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8606\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pie-951x1024.jpeg 951w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pie-279x300.jpeg 279w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pie-768x827.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pie.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 951px) 100vw, 951px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Even the Thanksgiving pie will be fed up with Kyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, MEAB features a special guest who will respond to each news item: Your annoying Uncle Kyle that always seems to have a take that&#8217;s<\/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":[54,53,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards","category-travel-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605","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=8605"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8613,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions\/8613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}