- American’s easy-to-forget-but-always-a-good-deal Reduced Mileage Awards are here. If you have an American Airlines credit card, don’t forget about these.
- 5,000 bonus United miles from Rocketmiles. Another one. And another good deal.
Plastiq Explosive
(Please hold your applause for that title)
Man, another great email to share. You guys are killing it this week! This one is from Stephen, who wanted others to know some important feedback on Plastiq. That email is below:
Hey Paul,
I tried out Plastiq after seeing the blog post about it and it has caused so many problems! I just wanted to let you know so you can warn your readers.
I tried to pay my rent using Plastiq but what they don’t tell you until after you press confirm is that it takes something like 10 days to process your payment. Additionally, if you rent from a person rather than a company as I do, they will put the payment on hold until you send in a rental agreement or invoice. After all these issues and delays and now being late on my rent, I cancelled the payment. I received a email from my very angry landlady today stating that a company called “Plastiq” had withdrawn the rent amount from her bank account without authorization causing her account to be overdrawn… She’s submitting a fraud complaint to her bank. What a mess! Anyways, I would warn your readers about the potential dangers of using that service.
Thanks for all you do. You’re a rockstar!
Regards,
Stephen
Free Uber Food
Great email from reader Steve:
“I know you’re all over the Uber stuff, but on the off chance you haven’t used Uber Eats yet, code FREEFRESH will get you $25 towards your first order. I used it two weeks ago and my wife used it this last weekend, so I know it’s still good. Limited coverage maps, but I’m sure you have plenty of readers who live or work in LA, NY, Chicago, Toronto, or Barcelona. Btw, our two delivery times were 8 min. and 6 min.”
(Edit: A few readers emailed to say this only works in LA)
Hump Day Deals
- Starwood’s Personal and Business card bonuses are back to 30,000. Refer friends for some easy points.
- In less exciting credit card news, Hilton’s American Express bonus is up to 60,000 points again.
- Rocketmiles is back with another good bonus for newbies. This one is 5,000 miles from Lufthansa. Depending on the person, the Southwest offer might still be better.
- Here’s a decent car rental sale from Enterprise starting at $9.99 per weekend day. These tend to come in handy sometimes.
- Delta has actually done something well. Success! They’re showing some good deals on award bookings to Europe right now. Starting at 21,000 miles each way for coach flights. Yeah, I just posted something positive about SkyMiles. This feels strange.
