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Ran into the Mexican car insurance scam with Budget in Merida, Mexico 🇲🇽
Base rate was $18 USD a day, but if you didn't get the CDW costing minimum $85 USD a day, I had to put down a deposit of 330,000 MXN / $16,000 USD which obviously got rejected by all my credit cards.
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Pleasantly surprised by Cathay Pacific's service for oneworld emerald customers even in economy. Middle seat was automatically blocked off, multiple FAs came by to greet me, was given a bottle of water and a blanket / pillow
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EDIT: That was fast, as expected. The Amex Platinum link is now down.
Via ChetHazelEyes through reddit r/churning, the American Express Platinum 100k offer is back publicly. It is 100k Membership Rewards points after spending $3k in the first 3 months. I applied, was approved over recon, and confirmed the bonus offer.
You can access the offer through this link:
This is the highest bonus we’ve ever seen on the card! It comes with all the normal benefits of the Amex Platinum, plus a few Mercedes-specific ones. Most importantly, however, it counts as a separate product under Amex’s once-per-lifetime rule.
The offer is a pretty standard $3,000 of spending within the first three months of opening the card. If you’ve been thinking of getting a Platinum card, I would jump on this, as the Business Platinum card bonuses typically have very high spending requirements, and good bonuses on the personal (non co-branded) card tend to be targeted and far between.
Update: Many people are reporting offers for 10,000 MR after $500 spend. Share your data points in the comments!
Saw this come up on all of my Membership Rewards-earning cards in my Amex account:
Note that it can only be used for hotel bookings (Esther and I have made this mistake before), and, it excludes Fine Hotels & Resorts as well, but it’s a pretty sweet deal if you have cash bookings coming up.
EDIT: After temporarily disappearing, GiftCards.com is back on TopCashback at 1.5%
For a long time, Giftcards.com was a good way of meeting minimum spending by allowing you to buy PIN-enabled Visa gift cards which were liquidatable in any number of ways. However, since they raised their gift card fees, it became quite expensive to purchase them without some kind of portal cash back.
To add insult to injury, Giftcards.com was pulled from most portals a couple months ago, but now it’s slowly making it’s way back.
Via reddit / various blogs, there are new increased signup bonus offers for both Hilton cards from American Express.
For the no fee card, the new offer is 75,000 points after $1000 in spending, compared to the normal 40,000 points after $750 in spending. The card offers 7x points on Hilton purchases, 5x at restaurants, supermarkets, and gas stations, and 3x everywhere else. It also offers Silver status in Hilton HHonors and Gold status if you spend more than $20,000 in a calendar year. I wouldn’t actually do this, or use the card for restaurants, supermarkets, or gas stations, by the way.
It looks like Chase wasn’t too happy with its phone bill this past month, because they’ve added a way to check your application status online! Just go to the Customer Center and scroll down to the bottom right.
Clicking the link will bring you to a page that looks like this:
It seems like they only give you information on personal applications, although that may be different if you’ve linked your business account to your personal account. If so, let us know in the comments!
Hi everyone!
As follow-up to our photoshoot from our recent trip to Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji, a reader suggested that it would be great to offer a way for everyone to share their travel-hacking successes with others. So whether it’s a photo of a credit card that helped you out, a landscape you particularly enjoyed, or a selfie that you had to contort your arm to frame, send it on over to us at demflyers [at] gmail [dot] com, or tweet at us (@demflyers) with the hashtag #wearetitans.
The DEM Flyers “Swimsuit” Calendar!
…not that kind of swimsuit calendar. Get your head out of the gutter!
Warning: This post is explicit. The photos are not. Enjoy!
It’s no secret that credit cards play a large part in the travel hacking game, and part of every handshake upon meeting a fellow travel hacker involves the obligatory dick credit card comparisons. These involve questions of the form:
Hey folks!
I was doing my own app-o-rama today, and I had intended to apply for the 50,000 point offer on the CitiBusiness AA Platinum Select card. Unfortunately, I found that most existing links are dead (as mentioned by most of the blogosphere a few weeks ago).
After some searching, however, I found a working link to the offer, which should be valid through April 30, 2016. Enjoy!
Hello from Sydney!
I just got this email from American Express offering a 30% discount on Membership Rewards redemptions for paid international flights through amextravel.com. This yields a redemption rate of 1.43 (1.0/0.7) cents per point, which is better than the rate for both the Chase Sapphire Preferred and Citi Thank You Prestige (unless you redeem for AA flights, for which you’d get 1.6 cents per point).
