{"id":9102,"date":"2024-02-01T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=9102"},"modified":"2024-01-31T18:19:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T01:19:19","slug":"thursday-quad-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/01\/thursday-quad-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Quad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Kroger stores are running a 4x fuel points promotion on third party gift cards<\/a> and fixed value Visa and Mastercard gift cards<\/a> through Tuesday, February 13.

    The resale market for both fuel points and gift cards is traditionally soft in the first couple of months in a new year, and we’ve settled into that funk in 2024 too. I do expect the funk to evaporate in the next month or so, but right now the game will probably involve longer inventory hold times.
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  2. Bilt figured out how to effectively get credit card sites to write a feature post about the Bilt card and program<\/a> at least monthly with their cringe-worthy “rent day” promotions. I do my best to abstain from the chicanery, but sometimes there’s still something genuinely valuable like today’s tiered Aeroplan transfer bonus:

    – Blue: 75% transfer bonus (1,000 points to 1,750 miles)
    – Silver: 100% transfer bonus (1,000 points to 2,000 miles)
    – Gold: 125% transfer bonus (1,000 points to 2,250 miles)
    – Platinum: 150% transfer bonus (1,000 points to 2,500 miles)

    Aeroplan is one of the best transfer programs for Star Alliance awards because it they’ve got good technology and low-friction booking, though they still have cancelation fees on their lowest awards and their prices are occasionally more expensive than other Star Alliance programs. I’ll be transferring most of my Bilt points to Aeroplan, but don’t do something just because I’m doing it.
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  3. The Barclays Hawaiian Airlines Business card has a heightened sign-up bonus<\/a>, and the $99 annual fee is not waived for the first year:

    – 60,000 miles after $2,000 spend in 90 days
    – 10,000 miles for adding an employee card and making a purchase in 90 days

    This card has plenty of other features, but frankly probably none of them are worth using or holding past year one. (Thanks to     C-MontgomeryChurns<\/a>)
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  4. Today may be the last day for adding employee cards with spending bonuses online to several American Express cards; they were set expire on February 2 according to the terms and conditions but one of them has already died:

    \u2013 Business Platinum:\u00a0    Spend $4,000 get 15,000 Membership Rewards<\/a>, limit five
    \u2013 Business Gold:\u00a0    Spend $4,000 get 15,000 Membership Rewards<\/a>, limit five
    <\/s>\u2013 Blue Business Plus:\u00a0    Spend $4,000 get 15,000 Membership Rewards<\/a>, limit five

    Hopefully new offers replace these, but you know what they say about hopes. Also, could you tell me what they say about hopes? Because I don’t actually know. Anyway, if you have spend capacity to meet these bonuses I’d order the cards right now.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
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    If the gift card and resale market in January and February were a food, it’d be week old ketchup on ramen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If the gift card and resale market in January and February were a food, it’d be week old ketchup on ramen.<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102","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=9102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9108,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions\/9108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}