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Busy day today.

Many people are logging into their Ebay accounts and seeing the following:

Thankfully, Ebay will be giving us one quarter to cash out our current bucks for gift cards, but earnings will stop next week.

/ht to Doctor of Credit readers, who prompted me to check my account.

Another one bites the dust….

Both the personal and business Marriott credit cards have recently increased their signup bonuses to 80k Marriott points after $3,000 in spend. This is the highest offer I’ve ever seen, though it looks like the annual fee of $99 for the business card and $85 for the personal card are NOT waived. I don’t seem to see a bonus for adding an authorized user for this offer.

Both cards earn:

5 points per $1 spent at Marriott properties Continue reading →

I’ve been enjoying the benefits of being an American Express Platinum cardholder in the last few months due to being added as authorized user to Esther’s Ameriprise American Express Platinum card (thanks Esther!) The Centurion Lounges and concierge service have been great! Today I discovered a couple new benefits while flying out of Toronto Pearson (YYZ)

I’m on a lightning trip through New York, Toronto and Boston this week, strategically avoiding all the Super Bowl craziness going on in San Francisco. I’m flying currently to Boston from Toronto Pearson. I gave myself a decent amount of time to get through immigration and security, but thankfully, my American Express Platinum card made that even faster! First, Global Entry got me through immigration and customs extremely quickly, skipping that entire line. Next, I run into a pretty long security line. But what’s this I see? Apparently, through a program called Cloud 10, American Express has partnered with Toronto Pearson to bring benefits to certain American Express cardholders. And tada, there was a completely empty special security line specifically for Platinum and Centurion cardholders. Thus, the entire process of immigration, customs, and security took me a grand total of 7 minutes. Continue reading →

Via Point Me to the Plane, Air New Zealand business class from SFO, LAX, and a bit less so out of IAH are widely available to fly nonstop to Auckland (AKL). I was able to find a good amount of availability from SFO for the next few months.

It doesn’t look like continuing awards from AKL to Australia on Air New Zealand are very open though.

Via View from the Wing, JAL First class space is also widely available between Tokyo and Sydney from March to December this year. Continue reading →

I was livechatting Discover tonight to follow up on some 5% category and Apple Pay issues from Q4, and at the end the representative asked if I had any other questions while I had her there. I took the opportunity to ask for any spending promotions. I didn’t expect anything other than maybe a lower APR, since one of my favorite blogs, Doctor of Credit, had not reported anything recently.

To my surprise… Continue reading →

A little late to the blog party, but American business class awards to Europe are wide open! Normally American is very stingy about releasing premium award space, but every once in a while, like right now, award space become wide open. The routes that are available are every city that American flies direct to London from, so Los Angeles, Charlotte, Miami, New York (JFK), as well as Philadelphia. Philadelphia doesn’t seem to be quite as open as the other cities. Furthermore, you avoid the high fuel surcharges from British Airways by flying on American for the long haul. Continue reading →

Via jpoysti on reddit, there is a new code for the Citigold 50k AAdvantage miles bonus, valid until 3/31/2016. The code is WD3QFS2Y4C.

For a step by step guide to applying for the Citigold account and funding it with a credit card, see Doctor of Credit.

I’ve personally done the Citigold signup bonus myself and am waiting for the miles to post to my account!