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FILTER RESULTS ►American Express, Where Carrying A Balance With An 18% APR Is A Perk
Forget airline miles, cash back, rewards points, or any of that rubbish. American Express wants you to remember that the best way to take full advantage of your card is to carry a balance. Over the weekend, the above e-mail popped up in the inboxes of a few Consumerist readers, all of whom seem to be confounded as to why … [More]
What Miles & Points are Worth: Hotel Points
Introduction Credit Card Points Airline Miles Hotel Points While airline miles have maintained their value pretty well the past year, hotel points have taken a real beating in the first quarter of this year. If you’re not aware of all the devaluations that have been going on I suggest reading this post, where I provide [...]Show More Summary
What Miles & Points are Worth: Airline Miles
Introduction Credit Card Points Airline Miles Hotel Points Welcome to what will undoubtedly be the most controversial part of this series. There’s nothing quite as fun as valuing airline miles on the internet, because I’m about to be called an idiot by people that value their miles somewhere between 0.5 and 12.5 cents each. So [...]Show More Summary
What Miles & Points are Worth: Credit Card Points
Introduction Credit Card Points Airline Miles Hotel Points With the introduction out of the way, here are my valuations of Membership Rewards, Ultimate Rewards, and Starwood Preferred Guest points. Yes, I realize Starwood points aren’t typically thought of as one of the major fluid credit card points currencies, though I still put them into this [...]Show More Summary
What Miles & Points are Worth: Introduction
Introduction Credit Card Points Airline Miles Hotel Points Last May I wrote a four part series on the value of miles and points, which many found useful. I was planning on writing a follow up at the one year mark, though I’ve received dozens of requests for an update given how drastically the miles & [...]Show More Summary
Wallaby May be Your Wallet’s Best Friend This Holiday
Wallaby is launching on Android today, enabling shoppers to maximize points, airline miles, and cash back simply by showing which cards to use and when.
Wallaby is all about giving you the credit card smarts to optimize each holiday purchase. Show More Summary
Wallaby’s Android App Tells You Which Credit Card To Use To Get The Best Rewards
Wallaby, a startup which had been originally working to develop a universal credit card that optimizes consumers' credit card points, rewards, airline miles and more, recently launched a more simplified version of that concept via an iPhone application. Show More Summary
And the Best Airline Ad Is…
A few short stories from today: - British Airways has once again increased its sign up bonus for the British Airways Visa card. It’s now 50,000 miles after the first $1,000; another 25,000 points after $10,000 in spend in the … Read more »
New 50,000 Point Signup Bonus for Citi Executive American AAdvantage MasterCard
There’s a new, better offer for the Citi American Airlines Executive Card which offers 40,000 miles after $3000 in spend within 3 months and another 10,000 miles after $10,000 spend within 12 months. Hat tip for the offer goes to Million Mile Secrets, though I’ve seen others write about this new offer without attribution. Now, [...]
Which loyalty programs process points purchases directly
Almost every time I post about a promotion for purchasing points/miles, I get a question about whether it qualifies as an airline/hotel purchase as far as credit card use is concerned. This is because usually hotels and airlines offer bonus points on their co-branded credit cards when you make purchases with them. For example, Starwood [...]
Wallaby Raises $1.1 Million For Cloud-Based, Universal Credit Card
Wallaby Financial, a startup that's building a cloud-based wallet that will optimize the rewards, points, airline miles, and other benefits consumers earn when charging purchases, has just closed a seed round of $1.1 million. The round...Show More Summary
My Updated Analysis on What a Mile/Point is Worth: Hotel Points
Introduction Credit Card Points Airline Miles Hotel Points I made a post about which credit cards to use for hotel stays back in March, and I included what I value the major hotel points currencies at. That being said, I didn’t explain the reasoning behind my valuations, so hopefully this helps in that regard. After [...]
The 9 Best Credit Card Signup Bonuses
A month and a half back I developed a top 10 credit card signup bonus list. It’s amazing how much has changed since then. The links I had for 50,000 American Airlines miles and 50,000 Southwest points no longer work. The Chase Ink Bold signup bonus now requires more spending. The British Airways Visa, which [...]
My Updated Analysis on What a Mile/Point is Worth: Airline Miles
Introduction Credit Card Points Airline Miles Hotel Points Air Canada Aeroplan – 1.3 cents/mile In November I valued Aeroplan miles at 1.5 cents each, which was already after their huge devaluation, though I think their value has gone down even further. Since then Lufthansa has full-on stopped releasing first class award space more than a [...]
My Updated Analysis on What a Mile/Point is Worth: Credit Card Points
Introduction Credit Card Points Airline Miles Hotel Points With the introduction out of the way, here are my valuations of Membership Rewards, Ultimate Rewards, and Starwood Preferred Guest points. Yes, I realize SPG points aren’t technically “credit card points,” though I still consider them to be one of the “big three” credit card points currencies [...]
My Updated Analysis on What a Mile/Point is Worth: Introduction
Introduction Credit Card Points Airline Miles Hotel Points At least once a year I try to make a post with my valuations of miles and points across various programs. I’d say over the past year more so than ever before the value of miles and points has been shifting, which I suspect is why I’ve [...]
The Small Business Interview: Startup Will Make it Easy to Spend Miles and Points Anywhere, Anytime
MINYANVILLE ORIGINAL From the points you earn using your Starbucks (SBUX) card to purchase that daily cup of morning joe to the miles you accrue flying on airlines like Delta (DAL) United (UAL) and JetBlue (JBLU) most of us probably have rewards accounts with at least a handful of merchants. Show More Summary
Top Travel Rewards from Airline, Hotel, and Credit Card Programs
Spring is in the air and summer vacation is just on the horizon, making it prime time for travel rewards holders to cash in their points and miles for trips. Whether you've racked up rewards credits via airline, hotel, or credit card programs, lots of juicy trips are currently up for grabs.
Citi Thank You Points to Become Transferable to British Airways and Singapore Airlines Miles
In my December credit card churn I picked up a Citibank ThankYou Premier Card with a 50,000 point signup bonus. Citibank only has a handful of cards worth getting, I had zeroed in on what I wanted from Chase and from American Express. And I had recently gotten an American Airlines card from Citi right [...]
American Express Blue Cash – An Everyday Spending Cash Back Card We Can All Appreciate
Who doesn’t like the idea of getting cash back on your normal every day spending? No special miles that need to be redeemed on the 15 non-blackout dates on the airline. No special branded points that can only be used in a special credit card company online “mall”. Just straight cash back — essentially a [...]
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