Phone Call to Amex Yields a Mediocre Retention Offer
When an annual fee on your credit card is coming up, and you're not sure whether to keep the card for another year or to [...]
My Most Recent Credit Card Churn: N00b Moves
I was pretty excited to be doing a credit card churn on a plane somewhere over the atlantic... oh, the novelty! This credit card churn [...]
Credit Karma Changes Algorithm for Credit Score Estimates
I've been using Credit Karma to track my credit score for almost 5 years now. I logged on today and noticed a substantial drop in [...]
A United Club Card Benefit You Probably Don’t Know About
I recently added a few new credit cards to my portfolio, and one of those additions was the United Club Card. It has a pretty [...]
How to Piss off Barclay
Recently, I was doing a round of credit card applications for my parents. I was getting "them" the old amex blue and the Barclay Arrival [...]
Check your Inbox for Targeted Offers from BoA
Yesterday I received a targeted offer for 3X miles at gas stations, grocery stores, drug stores, and restaurants through March 31 for my Alaska Airlines [...]
Changes in Chase reconsideration policies?
Late last week I applied for both the Southwest Personal and Business cards with the goal of hitting the minimum spend on both early in [...]
Helping a friend fly to Australia on miles… am I missing anything?
I would say that I am pretty darn good at getting points, and I do a pretty good job of redeeming hotel points for pretty [...]
Fall 2013 Credit Card Strategy and Results
Note: No links in this post are affiliate links. All links are to the best offers that I am aware of at the time of [...]
The craziness that ensues when points & miles junkies get together
A month ago, this weekend was going to be the last free weekend I had before my cross country biking adventure. I was going to [...]