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Buy British Airways Avios For 2.8 Cents Each – Worth It?

December 22, 2012

Update: The current offer for the British Airways Visa is 50,000 Avios when you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months. You can purchase up to 24,000 Avios per account per year, and as December 31 approaches, British Airways sent out reminders to Executive Club members reminding them they have just about a week left to top [...]

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Maximizing The Ink Plus Sign-Up Bonus

December 21, 2012

Update: The Ink Plus Business Card from Chase no longer offers 0% intro APR on purchases and balance transfers for the first 6 months. These days big credit card sign-up points bonuses seem to be sticking around, but scoring 50,000, 75,000 and even 100,000 points can often mean having to meet large minimum spending requirements. [...]

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Activate Chase Freedom For 2013 Quarter 1 5x Spending Bonuses

December 19, 2012

Time to activate your Chase Freedom card for the first quarter category spending bonuses where you can earn 5 Ultimate Rewards points per dollar you spend at select merchants. This time around, the Q1 2013 bonus categories: Gas stations, drugstores and Starbucks. You have until March 14, 2013 to activate (though you might as well [...]

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Reminder: Activate Chase Freedom 2012 Q4 Bonus Categories

December 13, 2012

If you haven’t already done so, you have until tomorrow, December 14, 2012, to activate your Chase Freedom card to earn 2012 Quarter 4 5x bonus spending categories. The current categories for Quarter 4 of 2012 are airline tickets, hotels, Best Buy and Kohl’s. Don’t panic if you haven’t activated yet because Chase will retroactively [...]

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British Airways Visa 10% Flight Discount Extended Through 2013

December 12, 2012

Update: The current offer for the British Airways Visa is 50,000 Avios when you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months. As you probably know by now, the British Airways Visa bonus is back up to 100,000 Avios until February. In addition to that points bonanza, this card carries a lot of potentially valuable lesser-known perks as [...]

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Detailed Look At Ink Bold and Ink Plus Perks You Might Not Know About

December 11, 2012

After my post Ranking the Top 12 Chase Travel Credit Card Offers last week, a lot of readers had questions about some of the lesser-discussed perks of my top two cards, the Ink Bold and the Ink Plus, so I wanted to address their specific benefits – apart from the super lucrative 5x bonus spending [...]

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My Ranking of the Top 12 Chase Travel Credit Card Offers

December 5, 2012

This is a post in my series ranking the top travel credit cards from the major banks. Other posts include: My Ranking of the Top American Express Travel Credit Cards, My Ranking of the Top Citi Credit Card Offers, My Ranking of the Top US Bank Travel Credit Cards. Kind of like the weather across much [...]

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British Airways Visa 50,000 Avios Offer is Back Through February 2013

November 29, 2012

Update: The current offer for the British Airways Visa is 50,000 Avios when you spend $1,000 in the first 3 months. One of the best credit card bonus offers in the points world is back! The Chase British Airways Visa is once again offering 50,000 bonus Avios for spending $1,000 within 3 months then 25,000 more bonus [...]

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Chase Freedom 2013 5x Bonus Categories Announced

November 28, 2012

One of the best ways out there to rack up bonus points on specific spending categories is with 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. If you maximize the $6,000 in yearly spend, you are [...]

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There Are More Flavors Than Vanilla: Maximizing Miles and Points With Green Dot & Paypal

November 26, 2012

Vanilla Reload cards can be difficult to find these days- and even when you do, some stores may mandate that you can only pay in cash. However, that doesn’t mean that you still can’t reap miles and points with the purchase of other pre-paid and reload able cards that allow other means of paying bills [...]

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Sunday Reader Question: How to Maximize Points on Apple Purchases this Holiday Season

November 25, 2012

TPG reader Don writes: “I plan on buying a lot of Apple products as gifts this year. What is the best way to maximize points since the Apple Store earning is most portals is only 1 point per dollar spent?” With the iPhone 5, new iPad mini and MacBook Pro Retina Displays, Apple products are [...]

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Sunday Reader Question: Buying Vanilla Reloads at Walgreens- Worth It?

November 18, 2012

Update: Office Depot no longer sells Vanilla Reload or American Express Prepaid cards. TPG reader Ingrid asks: ” I found Vanilla Reloads at Walgreen’s and they let me use a credit card. I used my United card. Is that worth it? It’s my main card and I love United miles.” First, I also love United [...]

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Chase AirTran Visa With 2 Roundtrip Sign Up Bonus

November 15, 2012

Update: The Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Premier Credit card bonus is now down to 25,0000 points. Until now, the public offer on the Chase AirTran Visa has been 16 A+ Rewards credits when you spent $1,000 in 3 months and two single-segment business class upgrades with your first purchase. Now, however, Chase has increased the [...]

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Maximizing the 50,000 Point Chase Southwest Offers and the Companion Pass

November 14, 2012

Update: The current offer for the Southwest Rapid Rewards Visa is 25,000 points after $1,000 in spend in the first 3 months. Chase and Southwest frequently change the sign-up bonus on the Chase Southwest Rapid Rewards Visa between 25,000 and 50,000-points, but they just launched a new 50,000 point promotion that should be good for at [...]

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New Chase Ink Bold/Plus Offer: Spending Requirement Halved to $5,000 Within 3 Months

November 12, 2012

There’s been a rumor for a while that Chase was going to decrease the minimum spend requirement on its line of Ink products from $10,000 to $5,000 and the main links at Chase.com have been updated to reflect the lower requirement. However, some people in forums and in the comments of other blogs (like MMS) have [...]

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Earning 5x Points on Everyday Spend With Visa and Amex Prepaid Cards

November 8, 2012

There’s currently a shortage of Vanilla reloadable cards on the market- many TPG readers are reporting their Office Depots are either sold out or no longer offering the card.  This is causing a lot of frustration for those looking to leverage Bluebird to earn miles and points by paying everyday bills with extremely low fees [...]

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Can You Take Advantage of Bluebird and Vanilla Without an Ink Card?

November 7, 2012

The resounding answer is YES. I’ve been getting an incredible amount of email questions about the Bluebird/Vanilla deal and whether it’s mandatory to have an Ink card, so let me explain why Ink is a “super amazing” deal vs. just an “amazing” deal using other cards. When you buy a $500 Vanilla Reload card from [...]

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Maximizing Chase Ultimate Rewards: My Ink, Sapphire Preferred and Freedom Gameplan

November 6, 2012

Update: As of April 2013, Chase Ultimate Rewards has added Virgin Atlantic as a new airline transfer partner. Maximizing credit card rewards is kind of like coaching a basketball team. You put certain players into action when it makes the most sense and pull them out when they just aren’t performing as well as others (or they simply [...]

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My Permanent Bluebird Card Is Active… and the Points Are Flying!

November 5, 2012

Update: Office Depot no longer sells Vanilla Reload or American Express Prepaid cards. As I mentioned in my original post about the huge potential of the American Express Prepaid Bluebird card, you need to wait until you get a permanent card in the mail before you can start loading it with Vanilla reload cards. So, [...]

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Maximizing American Express Bluebird to Earn Miles and Points: FAQ

November 1, 2012

Update: Office Depot no longer sells Vanilla Reload or American Express Prepaid cards. Last week, I wrote about an unbelievable way to get miles and points at a very low cost by leveraging the new Bluebird card from American Express and Walmart. A lot of other bloggers have written about it and its a hot [...]

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Is Chase Cracking Down on Ultimate Rewards Transfers?

October 24, 2012

Update: As of April 2013, Chase Ultimate Rewards has added Virgin Atlantic as a new airline transfer partner. Recently, Flyertalkers have reported having their Ultimate Rewards credit card accounts shut down and their points taken away for transferring points among Ultimate Rewards accounts as well as to frequent flyer accounts not belonging to them or their spouses. This [...]

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New Chase Ultimate Rewards Shop With Points on Amazon.com – Good Value?

October 24, 2012

Chase cardholders who earn Ultimate Rewards with their credit cards recently learned about a new partnership between Ultimate Rewards and Amazon.com that lets them link their two accounts and use points to pay for purchases directly on Amazon.com at a rate of 1 cent per point. The following cards are eligible for the Pay with [...]

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Catch The Points Guy Recap Week 4: New York

October 19, 2012

Another week, another fantastic destination on “Catch The Points Guy”. This time I headed to one of my favorite cities in the US: New York. In addition to the special affinity I have for the Big Apple since it’s where I first moved after college, it’s also a great place to earn and redeem Chase [...]

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My Chicago Seminars Presentation: Transferrable Points Programs and Credit Card Bonus Categories

October 15, 2012

Another year, another great Chicago Seminars! I had a fantastic time in Elk Grove, Illinois (about 20 minutes from O’Hare) meeting and greeting tons of other highly engaged (and slightly obsessed) frequent flyer and points hounds. My talk was on transferrable points programs and credit card bonus categories. In it I covered the big three: [...]

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