I am not perfect, far from it! My family will attest. 🙂 Maybe you are hesitant to start playing the game because there is so much to know and so much to keep track of. You are right; there is! But even if you aren’t perfect, even if you make mistakes during the year, miss […]
Category: My Mistakes-Don’t Make Them Too!
I Messed Up And Couldn’t Earn My Leaders Club Points On My Stay At Grace Bay, GRRR
As I wrote about, we had a luxurious stay at Grace Bay in Turks and Caicos. Upon checking in, I saw that the hotel was a member of The Leading Hotels Of The World, a hotel program with strict standards about who they let in to this coveted club of high-end and luxurious properties. I asked […]
I Messed Up With My World Of Hyatt Offer And Missed Out On 2,500 Points
Last month I took advantage of an offer to use my World of Hyatt Credit Card to make a certain number of purchases of $1 or more from February 1, 2021 to February 28, 2021. The terms of the offer were to receive 1,000 Bonus Points if you make 10 purchases, 1,500 additional Bonus Points […]
Ugh-I Messed Up And Applied For A Citi ThankYou Card Too Soon And Now Won’t Get The Bonus!
And I still continue to make mistakes at times! I recently wrote about how I was excited about adding a Citi Rewards+ card to my Citi ThankYou card portfolio. I recently went for the card after being reminded about the 10% Points Back rebate feature for the first 100,000 ThankYou Points you redeem per year. The bonus […]
I Forgot To Activate My Chase Freedom 5% Category Bonus And Lost Out On 6,000 Chase Points In The Last Quarter Of 2019
I try to be diligent about making sure I activate my 5% cash back/5 Ultimate Rewards points bonus on the Chase Freedom card’s quarterly bonus categories. I love the quarters that these bonus categories include restaurants, grocery stores and gas stations and I make sure I use the card to try to get as close […]
I Used The Wrong Card For Our Park City Lift Ticket Purchases
With the Citi ThankYou Premier Card Earn 2x ThankYou Points per $1 on Entertainment. I happily and naively used my card recently for Park City lift tickets anticipating my 2x ThankYou points on the hefty charge. Fast forward to the bill coming, and I got 1x point per $1 on the charge. Huh? After an unsuccessful phone […]
I Messed Up Trying To Use My Barclaycard Arrival Miles Again!
Last year I was not able to use my Barclaycard miles to offset a travel purchase because I needed my charges to be more than $100 with the Barclays Arrival Plus World Elite MasterCard. I actually ended up downgrading this card to the No Fee version, which brought my minimum travel purchases that could be covered […]
Barclays Canceled Rob’s JetBlue Mastercard And It Was Totally My Fault!
I failed to follow my own advice and have paid the price. Barclays has canceled Rob’s JetBlue MasterCard for lack of activity. I tell all of my clients to keep a small monthly charge on all of their no fee cards that sit in a drawer, or to remember to use them every so often. I didn’t […]
Darn!-I Forgot About The $100 Minimum Travel Charge That Would Have Allowed Me To Use My Arrival Miles
On our recent trip to Italy this summer, my goal was to have every portion of the trip that constituted travel to be paid with using rewards. After all, we had already gotten the flights on British Airways Avios saving, $4,700 and our 4 night stay in Milan was paid for using 120,000 World Of Hyatt […]
Amex Didn’t Anticipate This Glitch When They Were Adding Benefits To The Hilton Aspire Card
One of the benefits of the Hilton Honors Aspire card is an airline credit, similar to the one that you get with an Amex Platinum card. With the Hilton Aspire, you receive a $250 AIRLINE FEE CREDIT for incidental fees charged by the airline to your card each calendar year. These incidental fees include lounge access. However, […]