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Travel Tuesday Top 10: Reasons To Get A Travel Credit Card Without An Annual Fee

April 9, 2013

When it comes to travel credit cards, the ones that often get the most attention are the premium ones many issuers offer that allow you to bank points and miles to airline programs or, my favorite, to accrue into a central pool that can be transferred to numerous programs. The thing is, though these sought-after [...]

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Maximize Monday: Fixed-Value Travel Points

April 8, 2013

The recent launch of Barclaycard’s two new Arrival card (one with no annual fee and one with an $89 annual fee that’s waived the first year) has shifted my thinking about the sphere of fixed-value travel points and the credit cards that earned them, so for today’s Maximize Monday post, I wanted to cover the [...]

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Chase Ultimate Rewards Adds Virgin Atlantic As New Airline Transfer Partner

April 8, 2013

Over the weekend, Chase Ultimate Rewards announced it was adding a new airline transfer partner: Virgin Atlantic. So that means if you have a Sapphire Preferred, Ink Bold or Ink Plus card, you can now transfer to Virgin Atlantic in addition to British Airways, Korean Air, Southwest and United plus hotel partners Hyatt, Marriott, Ritz-Carlton [...]

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My Chase Freedom Q2 2013 Bonus Category Strategy

April 2, 2013

One of my favorite ways to earn bonus Ultimate Rewards points is by maximizing  of the Chase Freedom Visa and Freedom Mastercard’s quarterly rotating categories of merchants and retailers where cardholders earn 5 points per $1 up to a $1,500 quarterly cap and if you have a Chase checking account, their Exclusives Program adds an [...]

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Five New Cards and 315,000 Miles/Points Later: The Results of My Latest Round of Credit Card Applications

March 21, 2013

This is the third post in a series on my most recent round of credit card applications and will focus on how to conduct a personal credit card inventory and decide which cards to keep and those to cancel. The first post covered the basics of credit and how to perform a personal check to [...]

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Travel Tuesday Top 10: Most Valuable Credit Card Sign-up Bonuses for Travelers

March 19, 2013

2013 has started off as a pretty solid year for credit card sign-up bonuses. This year has brought some amazing deals via sites like CreditCard.com’s Card Match Tool, which has recently offered now expired 100,000-point Amex Platinum and 50,000-point Amex Premier Reward Rewards Gold deals. Word on the street is that more lucrative bonuses are [...]

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Maximizing Ultimate Rewards Points With Chase Ink Category Spending Bonuses

March 14, 2013

TPG contributor Jason Steele is back with another in-depth look at the Chase Ink family of credit cards and how you can maximize their category spending bonuses and gift cards. In part one of this series, I looked at ways that cardholders could utilize the complete line of Ink cards in order to earn the [...]

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Maximizing Ultimate Rewards With The Chase Ink Credit Cards

March 13, 2013

Today, TPG contributor Jason Steele takes a close look at the Chase Ink family of cards and how you can maximize their huge earning potential by educating yourself about their category spending bonuses and annual limits. As readers know, the Chase Ink family of cards – including the Ink Bold, Ink Plus and Ink Cash [...]

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Reminder: Activate Chase Freedom Bonus Categories by Thursday – Gas Stations, Drugstores, Starbucks

March 12, 2013

If you have the Chase Freedom card and you haven’t done so already, you have until Thursday, March 14, 2013, to activate your card to earn 5x points per $1 on the bonus spending categories for the first quarter of 2013: gas stations, drugstores and Starbucks, and the best part is, if you haven’t activated [...]

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Changes to the Chase Freedom 10% Bonus And What It Means For Your Points Strategy

March 7, 2013

As you should know by now, using a combination of Chase credit cards including the Sapphire Preferred along with the Ink Bold and Ink Plus cards – all of which earn Ultimate Rewards that you can transfer to the programs nine travel program partners – in conjunction with the Chase Freedom card that is tied [...]

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Maximize Monday: Ranking the Chase Ultimate Rewards Transfer Partners

March 4, 2013

Update: As of April 2013, Chase Ultimate Rewards has added Virgin Atlantic as a new airline transfer partner. Ultimate Rewards is the loyalty points program of Chase credit cards including the Sapphire Preferred, the Ink Bold and Ink Plus, as well as the Chase Freedom and Sapphire cards. However, there are actually two types of Ultimate Rewards points. Basic cards like [...]

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Chase Southwest Visa 50,000 Point Offers = Companion Pass Quicker Than You Think

February 28, 2013

Update: The current offer for the Southwest Rapid Rewards Visa is 25,000 points when you spend $1,000 in 3 months. Chase and Southwest frequently change the sign-up bonuses on the Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Credit Cards between 25,000 and 50,000 points, but they recently bumped both the personal and business cards Premier offers back up to 50,000 points [...]

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My Chase Sapphire Preferred 7% Annual Dividend Posted

February 28, 2013

If you already have the Sapphire Preferred or know about its benefits, you can skip this post. However, if you’re looking to get in on one of the best all-around travel rewards credit cards then feel free to read on. If you’ve read this blog for any period of time, you know that the Chase [...]

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My Ranking of the Top Five Limited Time Travel Rewards Card Offers

February 27, 2013

Update: The current offer for the British Airways Visa is 50,000 Avios when you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months. Update: The 50,000 point sign up offer for the American Express Premier Rewards Gold card is no longer available through the Card Match Tool. They say timing is everything, and that certainly holds true [...]

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Maximize Monday: Getting the Most Points from Starbucks Purchases

February 25, 2013

Part of my daily routine is usually hitting up a Starbacks and getting an iced grande Americano. While not the absolute best coffee in the world, it helps me jump-start my day and I like being able to get a consistently made beverage whether I’m at home in the states or passing through an airport [...]

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Sunday Reader Question: Advantage to Additional Cardholders Vs. Two Accounts

February 3, 2013

Update: The current offer for the British Airways Visa is 50,000 Avios when you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months. TPG reader Sue asks: “We saw you at the New York Times Travel Show and have been following your blog. My question: Is there an advantage to opening a credit card account with a subcard vs. [...]

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Office Depot Pulling $500 Amex Prepaid Cards? Report Your Experiences

February 3, 2013

Several TPG readers reported today that Office Depot will be pulling $500 American Express gift cards, which could be the end of a major points-earning portal for many. For those who are unaware, the leverage here is that the Ink Bold and Ink Plus cards both offer 5 points per dollar spent on “office supplies.” [...]

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Travel Tuesday Top 10: Reasons to Get a Business Credit Card

January 29, 2013

Last week’s limited-time 75,000-point sign-up bonus offer for the Amex Business Gold Rewards card was a good reminder that many of the credit cards currently on the market that are geared towards business carry rewards and benefits that are just as great – and sometimes better – than the personal credit cards that are out [...]

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Sunday Reader Question: Deciding Between Chase Sapphire and Starwood American Express

January 27, 2013

TPG reader Mark is in a situation where he needs to decide which card is best for his upcoming increase in travel: “I am trying to decide between getting the Chase Sapphire Preferred and the Starwood Amex.  I am going to start traveling and entertaining a lot for work so the idea of the 2x [...]

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Free Pass to New San Jose Lounge Club For Ink Bold and Ink Plus Cardholders

January 23, 2013

Both the Chase Ink Bold and Ink Plus cards come with a variety of great perks including big sign-up bonuses (50,000 Ultimate Rewards points each when you spend $5,000 in 3 months), category spending bonuses like 5 points per dollar at office supply stores and on wireless/telecommunications services, cable and satellite television and radio services [...]

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Maximize Monday: The Best Ways to Earn Points on Dining

January 14, 2013

It’s a well known fact that you don’t need to step onto a plane to earn miles and points. The credit cards you carry and what you use them to buy are just as important, if not more so, than how and where you travel. Making the most out of your everyday expenses is one [...]

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Maximize Monday: Choosing the Best Site and Credit Card for Purchasing Airfare

January 7, 2013

Maximize Monday is a new weekly series, where I’ll dig into different topics and offer my suggestions on how you can change your habits in order to get the most bang for your buck (and points). If you have any topic ideas, please feel free to Tweet me @thepointsguy or email me at [email protected] For [...]

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The Points Guy 2012 Year In Review

December 31, 2012

As 2012 comes to an end, I wanted to take stock of what turned out to be another exciting, challenging and ultimately rewarding year both on ThePointsGuy.com and personally. I visited over 20 countries, flew dozens of airlines, flew about 200,000 miles the good old-fashioned way and spent nearly 160 nights in hotels – and [...]

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(Video) Sunday Reader Question: Which Credit Cards Sign-up Bonuses Can You Get Multiple Times?

December 23, 2012

TPG reader Doug writes: “I’ve gotten about 14 credit cards in the last year. I have gotten nearly all of the ones that I am especially interested in, and am starting to think about canceling some cards so that I can reapply for them down the line. I know the basics: keep your oldest cards to [...]

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