5,000 Miles Per Hertz Rental?

If they honor this, it’s the best rental car promo I’ve seen in a while.

  • Earning 5,000 miles per rental from Scandinavian Airlines is a good thing.
  • The fact that the rental only has to be for a day is a very good thing.
  • Being able to collect the bonus multiple times is unusually great.

Definitely worth looking at.

Tuesday Triple

  • Nerds With Inks are running to Office Depot again. The current deal is better than most. You’ll get $20 off your purchase of gift cards (when you buy the $100 or $200 MasterCards). Make sure you ring each one up individually. If you find a friendly employee, it’s definitely possible to buy a bunch.
  • Register here for a Club Carlson promo if a stay is possible before the end of June. Thanks to reader Robert for adding that you could get even more if you’re staying at a Country Inn & Suites or booking through the app.
  • Get 20% bonus miles on transfers of hotel points to Etihad in April.

 

The Top 25 Credit Cards

(If you see any errors, please let me know. I try to keep a full list, but it’s a lot of information and I do make mistakes)

Significant Changes Since Last Month:
-Added Marriott link worth 107,500 points.
-Sapphire Reserve 100,000-point offer expired.
-Link for Merrill Lynch 50,000-point bonus died.
-Increased American Express offers on Hilton and Hilton Surpass card.
-Amex Platinum public standard link up to 60,000 with an increased fee.
-American Airlines links without “every 24 month” limitation died.
-Added Alliant to top of cashback list. Link will work later this month.
-Removed Delta links for this month.
-Wynham dropped down to 15,000 points from 45,000.
-Korean bonus doubled to 30,000.

Before Playing This Game:
-Find a new hobby until you can pay off all balances each month.
-Take 5 seconds to confirm the bonus and is what you expect.
-Get a screenshot of the bonus in case you have issues collecting it later.
-Take 2 minutes to read the small print terms before applying.
(Look for “once in a lifetime,” “no bonus for cardholders in last 24 months,” etc.)
-Keep everything very organized in a spreadsheet. You’ll thank me later.

 

Time my monthly Top 25 Credit Cards. It’s called “Top 25” out of tradition, but you’ll get many more links than that below. Again, if you’re a rookie, make sure you read The Newbie Guide. It’s a little outdated but many basic questions can still be answered there. For people running out of cards, remember there’s often a Business card option. Also, “churning” (getting the same card more than once) might be an option. The dates here were a guideline but things always tend to vary individually. If you’re new, it might be wise to start with Chase cards because of the limitations they’ll place on you soon.

Miles and points are far from an equal currency. 50,000 Delta SkyMiles are worth less to me than that amount from Alaska Airlines. 25,000 Hyatt points mean way more than the same number from Hilton. And so on. These links work right now (April 3rd at midnight). If you read this later, many of the offers will have changed. Things move fast so read offer details and terms before applying. Especially all that small print when you’re trying to get bonuses more than once on the same card. Ok, enough chatter…here we go! My “Top 25” current credit cards are below.

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Delta Promo

Could have sworn I posted this a couple of weeks ago, but those posts got lost in the great tech debacle of 2017 so I’m not sure. Maybe I imagined it. Damn, I’m old.

Anyway, this offer from Delta is like a (very) watered down version of the old Grand Slam from US Air. It’s 1,000 bonus miles from every new partner you earn miles with through the end of June. Make sure you register at the link before you start earning. Have a great weekend, nerds!

Thursdeals

  • Alamo’s one-way car rental deal out of Florida is back. Not everyone will have a use for it, but this has been a great offer for some it in the past.
  • If you’re going for a Southwest Companion Pass with a hotel point transfer…you’re quickly running out of days. This option ends for good on Friday. Marriott has been (by far) the most popular way to do it.
  • Here’s a new link to the valuable 50,000-point Merrill Lynch card from Bank of America. Good card and, yeah, it’s possible to get one of these and an Alaska on the same day.
  • A not-quite-as-valuable new 60,000-point link for the Amex Platinum card (same bonus for the Charles Schwab version). If you’re seeing 75,000 in an incognito window, that’s still the better way to go.