Recall that with the Barclays Arrival Cards, you can book and pay for travel with the card and then redeem your miles for a statement credit. You must choose a travel purchase within the last 120 days to get the redemption. Based on my own travel plans which I speak about below, I came to the […]
Category: Flexible Reward Programs (Credit Card)
Sharing And Transferring Barclays Miles
The Barclays rules state that “you have no property rights or other legal interest in miles. Miles have no cash value or value of any kind until they are fully redeemed. Miles may not be assigned, transferred or pledged.” Looks like transferring is not an option. […]
Our December Weekend At Woodloch Pines Paid For Using Our Chase Sapphire Preferred
We just returned from our weekend at Woodloch Pines in Hawley, PA, in celebration of my parents 50th anniversary. We spent the weekend participating in a lot of the Woodloch activities such as horse racing (remember they gave me a “cash advance”), bingo, hiking, go carts, EATING, and enjoying the nightly entertainment. We were there during […]
I Am Planning To Buy Gift Cards To Hit The Maximum Dollar Amount For The 10% Freedom Bonus
I recently posted about this offer from Chase Freedom. If you activate your Chase Freedom account again, you can earn 10 points per $1 on up to $1,500 in new combined purchases from November 23 – December 31, 2015. You can earn these 10 points in this quarter’s bonus categories regardless of what you’ve spent […]
Woo Hoo! Rob Is Getting The Chase Ink Plus Card!
THIS CARD IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE TO NEW CARDMEMBERS-SEE THE CHASE INK BUSINESS PREFERRED CARD Rob has his own law firm and I try to direct him to charge as many business expenses as possible to his credit cards. He mostly uses his American Express Business Gold Rewards Card, especially for advertising as he gets 3X […]
I Need A Bigger Credit Limit On My Barclaycard To Have Enough Points For A Statement Credit
As I have posted about previously, I am using my Barclaycard Arrival Plus World Elite MasterCard like crazy to try to earn 120,000 Barclaycard Arrival Miles to apply to my $1,200 deposit for my hotel in Cooperstown, NY. The amount of miles that I need, requires that I spend $60,000 in 120 days, as I earn 2 […]
Chase Freedom-15,000 Point Bonus Offer
THIS POST SUPERSEDED-REGULAR OFFER NOW $150/15k The regular bonus for the Chase Freedom card is $100/10,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards BONUS POINTS offer after you spend $500 in the first 3 months. But for a limited time, Chase has upped this spend bonus to $150/15,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards BONUS POINTS. There […]
What Happens To Your Chase Ultimate Rewards Upon Your Death?
Similar to the American Express Membership Rewards, the Chase Ultimate Rewards terms state that points can’t be transferred by operation of law, such as by inheritance, in bankruptcy or in connection with a divorce. 🙁 […]
What Happens To American Express Membership Rewards Upon Your Death?
The American Express Membership Rewards program terms state, “points can’t be transferred by operation of law, such as by inheritance, in bankruptcy or in connection with a divorce.” There is nothing in the terms that may make this rule subjective. […]
Five JetBlue Flights To Vegas On TrueBlue Points And Barclaycard Miles And A Savings Of $3,000
I was very late to the game in planning a trip for our February break. I think the fact that we are taking a March ski trip this year (to Whistler) instead of a February ski trip threw me off a bit and I procrastinated in making a move. And I paid! I started […]