We have fun with more on Chase Sapphire Preferred Week by Personal Finance Digest, get more information on why Credit Karma dropped its Affiliate Network, learn about Travel Masters, Award Wallet Hacks, IHG Rewards 80k Offer, and how to pay for college with miles if you are in Canada that is and more!
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Personal Finance Digest continued Chase Sapphire Preferred Week and the funniest post yet. A video of a cat with the card. Have not laughed as hard since The Bustle! And the CSP show goes on with a hilarious exclusive interview with D. Barrett. You know him right? That’s the guy on the Chase Sapphire Preferred card! Wow!
Credit Karma Affiliate Network folded as reported yesterday. Here is the thread in Flyertalk. Hey, we are all about education too, not only entertainment! Read post #25 if you visit it.
Reader on Twitter let me know of yet another outfit wanting to teach you to fly for free after you pay them to learn how to do it. Travel Masters Academy. I never heard of them before, they are just popping out everywhere! You can get a $100 value for only $29.99 with this Living Social deal. I am NOT recommending it, I just think it’s a riot!
The Free-quent Flyer wrote about the One Mile at a Time blogger, you know, the Rolling Stone rockstar. Interesting post and interesting comments as well. Hey, we are all different. I just want to fly for FREE lol. Hey, some German media picked up the sexy story too!
Loyalty Lobby reports a limited hacking job on Award Wallet. So watch out I guess. I am very afraid of these guys now that they are going to put so much energy to pumping credit cards instead of improving their software.
Travel With Grant reports on his unsuccessful Chase Sapphire Preferred application and reconsideration. Dang you Chase why be so hard about this? No goofing around it appears with the new 5 apps in 2 prior years limitation #socruel.
Matt at Saverocity Travel has some thoughts on taking a $10 gig and making it a $1,000 gig. I like how personal finance mindset is injected into it. And I agree with most of it.
Looks like the IHG Rewards 80k Visa offer is still out there but you must check your email! By Running with Miles.
Found this news article: In Canada, You Can Pay for College With Frequent Flyer Miles.
Holy macaroni, there is a LOT of miles/points stuff today. And I need to get ready to go see Mission Impossible so I will cut it off right here and leave the rest of the usual content (travel, personal finance, weird, etc) links for another day!
I just want to leave you with this, you know, for laughs. Hey all, don’t be so serious! Found HERE. Hey, congrats for your engagement you guys lol!
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As I was signing off the media barrage goes on…Wow!
FIRST!!!!
First in the comments and first two links today, you are rolling Bro!
The usual, please
Right on!
You are so misguided about affiliate links……
Ummm, okay, thanks.
That photo will have me laughing the rest of the day!
I have not stopped laughing yet!
Haha – you have been on a tear this week dude. Maybe you should be going on Nightline — David vs. the Titans..er…Goliath!
I will never go on Nightline to talk about miles/points. They may tag me as “Travel Hacker” and moms would think of me as an apprentice or something lol.
Buzz-
Great post today with many good links.
1. Free-quent Flyer nailed it:
“There is no reason for people like me to care when Lufthansa opens their premium cabin seats for partner award redemptions — unless I actually want to fly somewhere on Lufthansa!
And that’s the difference between Ben Schlappig’s hobby and mine: he cares even when he has nowhere to be and no reason to be there.”
I’m thinking of reading OMAAT while I have the Beatles’ “Nowhere Man”
on in the background. Or maybe “Baby You’re a Rich Man”. Or maybe both at the same time, played backwards.
2. Credit Karma. Karma indeed.
3. Is it just me, or does it look like that engaged couple made their initials and the heart out of coke? No wonder the people at the other tables are smiling.
Only 7 days to go until First Friday.
Thanks for the kind words.
If that is coke, that’s a hell of a lot of coke!
Oh dear Lord, can’t wait for First Friday to end….darn Chase, they are killing it slowly…December 31. No doubt so they can allow bloggers to pump it to oblivion!
I had a similar thought. Journalists writing about The Hobby compare their subjects to George Clooney’s character in Up in the Air. They may have forgotten that Clooney’s character is not a hero; he’s an ultimately lonely, self-absorbed a–hole with few friends, few people who love him, and little happiness. On the other hand, he really likes sitting in flying metal tubes and enjoying benefits unavailable to the non-elite passengers he disdains.
That comparison isn’t flattering.
Excellent film. Thinking about it now, I wonder what credit card Clooney’s character would have used?
All of them, Katie.
Trump – Palin 2016
Deal with it lol.
As to the question about which card Clooney would have used of course the answer is Chase Sapphire Preferred 🙂