Let’s look back at what your last couple weeks may have been like. The first assumption is that you have a Chase Ink Bold and an Ink Plus card. With them, you’ve been buying $200 Visa gift cards every day. Conservatively, maybe 9 of them on each card. That means you’ve been earning 18,000 Ultimate Rewards points every day. Considering, you’ve …
A Whopping $1
In what has to be the smallest deal in the history of MileNerd, you can get a free buck from Hotel Tonight. A buck?? Obviously (I hope), the point of this deal isn’t the dollar. It’s that you can delay your Hotel Tonight credit balance from expiring for another year. If you already use Hotel Tonight: Open the app. Click …
Marriott Business Card
Reader Steve pointed out that I haven’t mentioned the new 50,000-point Marriott Business card yet. That’s a good point, Steve. I’m happy to admit when I’m wrong, and well…I’m kind of/slightly/a little/wrong-ish here. In fairness, the 70,000-point Personal card has been high on my list. But, yeah, I’ll have to mention the Business version on the next Top 25. Well played, …
Reconsideration
I recently applied for 7 credit cards and was instantly approved for 4 of them. Yup, denied for 3. That’s actually pretty good. Even with a credit score near 800…after a while, instant approval is far from a lock. With a little work (picking up the phone), you can usually turn decisions around. In this case, I made 3 calls …
Deals To Start The Week
I just got an email for 750 free Southwest points. This was for an easy merging of my AirTran and Southwest accounts. Check your spam folder if you didn’t get the email. No AirTran account? It might be worth signing up for one now just in case. If you live in New Brunswick, you get free Uber rides. Hey, finally …