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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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Apparently in Germany, if your DB train arrives at your destination between 1 hour and up to 2 hours late, you get 25% compensation, and if 2 hours or more, 50% compensation.
Had a crazy delay going from Berlin to Munich where our train arrived 2.5 hours late 🥲
We’ve started a new project to post Asia travel deals, Asian Luxe Travel! It will focus on premium travel in Asia, such as business class deals and luxury hotels.
If interested, please subscribe to whichever social media channel you prefer!
Asian Luxe Travel Twitter
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For example, we already posted deals from Tokyo to Europe starting from $2120 round trip in business class on China Eastern / China Southern.
Update sometime in 2022 it now codes correctly for everyone even if it says Beverages & More, Inc, HOWEVER charges less than $10 no longer get credited. Must be over $10.
Update 1/25/22 – Chase and GoPuff still have not resolved this issue for Californians yet, it’s still showing up as BevMo and not getting credited back. Chase deflects the blame back to GoPuff, saying they cannot control how a merchant codes. GoPuff keeps saying they’ve passed the issue on to their engineers, but nothing has come of it in months.
DoorDash (my referral link) recently put out this promo to encourage people to text receipt photos in exchange for 25% back in DoorDash credits. I don’t think it’s targeted, but some people don’t seem to have received the email. I thought I’d put out a blog post since DoorDash sent another few marketing emails saying “We didn’t get much interest.” Surprising to me since it’s so easy to do! 😅
Gopuff (my referral) has been working hard on marketing lately. I’ve been getting ads everywhere for them, and every time I walk past a BevMo (Gopuff acquired BevMo for $350MM in Nov 2020) I see a tent sign about Gopuff outside the entrance. I’ve seen Chase offers for them, and there’s currently even a targeted 99% off Boost up to $25 off in Cashapp for it.
Gopuff also recently announced a Gopuff x Chase benefit where you can get $10 credit per month per Chase card you have through 12/31/2023. Nearly every Chase card qualifies (except Amazon, it seems). The Ink cards also get the credit, even though it’s not officially on the list.
Update 5/4/21: There is currently an Amex offer for Yamibuy for $10 off $50 in one or more transactions, expiring 6/3/21! I appreciate it if you use my referral link for $5 off. 🙂 Please also check out my Pro Tips for Weee! post.
This is a follow up to M’s post about Weee! (my referral for $20 bonus) back in December. Weee! is an Asian grocery delivery service similar to Instacart and Amazon Whole Foods/Fresh currently serving the SF Bay Area and Seattle. I started using it at the beginning of Shelter In Place since I craved Asian groceries, but the lines at 99 Ranch were sometimes pretty daunting. I’ll also talk about some similar alternatives to Weee!, Yamibuy and Yamimeal in this post.
First published 4/6/2016. Last updated 5/2/21: Some devaluations this year, like IKEA.
Hi everyone! It’s been awhile since you last heard from me, due to all my traveling recently. Unlike Daniel and Michael, I have a hard time keeping up with computer-related stuff while traveling. But I am back now, and have a lot of things to catch up on and things I want to share with you! I seem to have a ton of friends with birthdays in the spring, so hope this is timely for some of you.
Click here to see the 6 qt deal on Amazon ($68.95, normally $120+)
8 qt larger version ($129.95, normally $150+)
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Hopefully you got that $10 off deal with a Mastercard that Doctor of Credit posted about the other day, it would apply to this since it’s sold by and shipped from Amazon, making this deal even sweeter at $58.95!
Anyone who wants to be able to make healthy, fast, and delicious meals. There are a lot of great recipes from the pressure cooker community, and pressure cookers cook hotter and faster than many traditional methods which help make food (especially meats) taste tender and amazing. You can even bake a cheesecake in it!
There are entire Facebook communities (see below) around this simple electric pressure cooker, sharing recipes and tips and stories on how this little device has changed their families’ lives. Some people even travel with the Instant Pot (apparently it fits in the overhead bin) so they can cook healthy meals easily and quickly in hotel rooms! I haven’t done that yet, but I have a free resort trip in the Bahamas coming up soon where food is going to cost a fortune, so hmm…
Pressure Cook Recipes – http://www.pressurecookrecipes.com
Hip Pressure Cooking – http://www.hippressurecooking.com/
Chef Steps – https://www.chefsteps.com/
Serious Eats – http://seriouseats.com
Pressure Cooking Today – http://www.pressurecookingtoday.com/
Two Sleevers (Indian Food) – http://twosleevers.com/
Instant Pot English –
https://www.facebook.com/groups/InstantPotCommunity/
As weird as we are, we get it. This is not for everyone. I’ve spent a bit of time writing about things that are more accessible to the average person, like earning cash back instead of miles or reducing hotel costs by buying loyalty points at a hotel chain. If that’s too much for you, even learning how to use Google Flights or some of the other tools we recommend can get you on the path to savings.
What if that’s still too much? Well then, this post is for you.
Travel hacking roughly boils down to strategically taking advantage of deals and loyalty programs to get as big a discount off the retail price of travel as possible. Who’s to say this can’t apply to other goods and services? As with travel hacking, it’s all about knowing your tools…
Tool #1: Signup Bonuses
Sound familiar? Obviously, sign-up bonuses for credit cards are about as lucrative as they get, but many companies will happily offer you $10 or $20 to try out their product. Since the idea of a sign-up bonus is to get you to try out the service and hopefully use it long-term, you want to find products or services that you would be paying for anyway. If you don’t watch TV, don’t sign up for a Netflix subscription, even if they give you a few months free. That’s just asking for a recurring charge that you forget about.
Tool #2: Rebates and Special Offers
Be loyal only to those who give you the best deal.
While this is terrible advice for (most) relationships, in the supplier-saturated world of the internet and mobile phones, it’s pretty easy to find product or services that are fungible with one another. Uber too expensive? Try Lyft. Amazon Prime not cutting it for you? Try Google Express. Everyone wants your business and will offer you promotions that compete with each other. Use this to your advantage.
Moreover, just as the retention call (threatening to cancel in hopes of having an annual fee waived) can is useful in mitigating the cost of credit card annual fees, so too can they be useful for utilities or other recurring services. I have countless friends who have saved hundreds of dollars a month by threatening to cancel their service and having their introductory promotions renewed. Try it some time (and be ready to actually cancel).
Tool #3: Rewards Programs
http://www.ebay.com/itm/50-Hotels-com-Gift-Card-Gift-Card-For-Only-40/152242949031
Note that there have been a few purchasers who have indicated that they got charged for a cash advance when making the purchase, but if you can avoid using Paypal, you should be okay (Doctor of Credit has a writeup of the last time this happened with a merchant). Reviews of the merchant are fine otherwise.
Even better, Hotels.com gives you the option to combine gift cards, allowing you to use more than 1 if you can get your hands on them (the deal itself is limit 1, but you can expect that these will hit gift card resellers soon or you can ask your friends to buy them for you). Find the combine link here:
https://www.hotels.com/deals/gcbalance/
Happy hacking!
The credits are worthless unless you use them, and use them by their expiration dates. This link shows you how many credits you have left for digital media (Prime Pantry credits are not listed here), but it doesn’t show you expiration dates. Those expiration dates are in individual emails, one for each order you made. I make dozens of orders per month that I choose slow shipping on, so I’ve let many credits expire just because I wasn’t keeping track.
I’m lazy, but I also like staying on top of things and maximizing value, so I’m a huge fan of automation. Tools like Zapier and IFTTT are awesome for me, and they’re easy enough for anyone to use, with zero coding background. Many people are very familiar with IFTTT, but not so much with Zapier. If you’re new to Zapier and want to see a real-life example of what it can do, today I will show you how to set up Zapier to automatically extract Amazon credit values and expiration dates from your email and save them into a spreadsheet.
Zapier and IFTTT can also do many other automation tasks to save you lots of time. Maybe after reading this tutorial, you’ll be inspired to play around with other triggers and actions on Zapier, or find more inspiration on the web that others have shared. I’m sure you’ll also think of many travel hacking related ideas. 😉 Do share with us!
