We dive deeper into Marriott cash and points, Silvercar sells to Audi, learn how to move miles, learn about Norwegian’s loyalty scheme, get some easy Delta Skymiles, travel to Kyrgyzstan, laugh at leggings fails and blog trolls and more!
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Not much happened yesterday, so much of the action was devoted to selling the new Amex Platinum 60k link and the soon ending Amex SPG cards…and me wasting too much time trying to reason with blog haters yesterday in the comments accusing me of blatant selling and having no integrity. I mean, if that is not entertaining, I don’t know what is!
Try to register for this Delta promotion, it could be good for 1,000 Skymiles for every new partner you use. Read the fine print, I don’t know how to do arrows.
Loyalty Traveler did a deeper dive into the Marriott Rewards Cash and Points Reward Nights. Only to find that they are nowhere to be found. I always called the Marriott Rewards program the Delta of hotels. They are being a little nicer now not to scare off all the SPG loyalists. But it won’t last with these guys…
Silvercar, the rental car company, was bought by Audi. When you consider they only rented out Audis…this makes sense. Car companies are scrambling left and right to not get left behind with all the sharing economy, autonomous vehicles and other market interruptions under way. I still have not rented from them. Looking for a car in Ft. Lauderdale at end of April and I am not seeing any deals from them. If you know of any current promos let me know. And if you need a referral email me, gracias!
Interesting post that may be helpful to a few of you. Ways to move miles from one airline to another (Points.com and other methods). Yeah, points.com conversion ratios are highway robbery. But it could come handy in desperate situations I guess. There is so much to learn in this hobby it is…beyond ridiculous sometimes.
Well, this Norwegian airline is making waves for real. Did you know it has a loyalty program? Its name: Norwegian Reward. Head For Points has looked into it, not that great but hey, if you are going to fly them… #maximizeit!
Leggings pictures. You have been warned, NSFW!
For personal finance, something more esoteric and more attuned to this hobby. Found me a link to the latest Monthly Complaint Report by the CFPB. Among its findings, the most important was this with the most complaints about credit cards. In order from top to bottom, we have the bank and total complaints (page 19) to understand the scale of it all…
Citibank 15,542
Capital One 12,074
JPMorgan Chase 9,614
Synchrony Financial 8,044
Bank of America 8,518
Amex 6,120
Wells Fargo 3,738
Barclays PLC 3,163
Discover 3,902
US Bancorp 2,238
TD Bank 1,182
These are breath taking: Winners of the 2017 Sony World Photography Awards.
Big Skies in the High Kyrgyz Pamir. I like places with no Hyatt in sight, get away from it all…
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I finally got my #1 fan, lifetime TBB troll, Ingy to come out, posting with the handle “You’re a moron”, so so clever #nope. Every time you click on my links, this guy is hurting #letsdothis!
Where I am coming from, one more time.
I will have a Saturday and Sunday post this weekend. On Saturday I will be asking for your help, especially from readers residing in the Bay area. We will be visiting for sure this summer! And on Sunday is another edition of the three links I love. I have four so far, one is an amazing story (involves dildos lol).
I just drop this here, for the record. THIS is what credit card pimping is all about. I guess I have no integrity for posting daily for 4.5 years instead of doing what they do… WTF! Can you imagine what these guys will do if I did what the blogs below do? They’ll flip and accuse me of having no integrity and selling…again LOL!
And I leave you with this…
Were you entertained? Learned something? Inspired perhaps? (probably not). Enjoy your weekend. Your blogger with no integrity 🙂
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let me show you my…. dotcom
Can I get some free shares for the IPO?
Human.
Blog owner searching for my identity…eeeer, I mean, integrity lol.
Troll
(beat them to it so NO trolling today, right? jajaja)
To spend so much time in blogs you do not like and/or can’t stand the blogger is seriously messed up. Maybe they can find a therapist taking Visa…or Amex Platinum—>bang my imaginary link 🙂
Buzz-
Take the Troll’s advice and do something procustive with your life.
Maybe take up professional poker………………..
and do it for charity? 😉
@Sam, you had me with “procustive”—thought it was some cool new word that I didn’t know about….
Bluecat-
In my view, the Troll has done some very procustive things, and reading his posts is very embulising.
Lol
One of my friends the other day was talking about collecting points and about how he reads The Points Guy. I almost choked on my fish taco (Tacolicious, and SF chain, has the best ones).
So I had to straighten him out. I sent him the link to the Points Guy’s new New York office and told my friend he was helping pay for that. Etc.
Thanks for digging up that pic link (TBB or whoever, I can’t recall)
Now he is a MN and DoC reader. Another soul saved.
Love that…saving readers. One.At.A.Time….oh wait, that’s too close…
5th Human
Now in Turkey!
Summary of yesterdays blow by blow
-John & George both probably have OCD
-John said same thing readers/bloggers said for years. Having a blog like this criticizing sellouts but trying to sell is weird. John called it lack of integrity. Probably too harsh but won the first round.
-George said why do you spend so much time on a blog with no integrity. He won that round.
-John got round 3 when George started arguing a different argument saying things like it’s ok to sell if his posts are long & he writes every day spending a lot of time blogging. Didn’t make sense. He could haave a links page like FM who he gives credit to. Probably is some lack of integrity there to praise that guy but then sell harder than him.
-George won easy in round 4. Used the Lance Armstrong defense that the game is dirty and he is not one of the worst. He never pushes inferior links which is true. Almost lost it by some crazy talk of improving humanity inspiring and taking credit for doc. But no doubt he does not push readers to bad offers so round 4 was for George.
Result was a draw. Next fight scheduled as Floyd Mayweather under card.
I like the creativity and ok humor, u have potential.
John has way too much time in his hands, along with Rick, hanging around blogs and bloggers they dont like. They should stick with blogs with more integrity….lol…that’s just been so hilarious, thanks for the laughs u guys.
So easy to criticize bloggers. I had no idea how time consuming this shit is either. Especially doing this every single day so u will all be taken a bit more seriously if u had actual experience blogging before. And doing it daily and being independent without any help as they all do in Boarding Area.
Regarding FM, give me his tech help from BA, the monthly check from page views…dont need any writers…give me these and then perhaps you will all give me a break for selling so hard…..am laughing now….and smh #wow.
Improving humanity was snark.
U ask DoC.
Enjoy the content for free here for 4.5 years and thanks 4 the support cough.
I now have to go find some integrity….woohoo
Whatever happened to The Points Summary guy?
he went the way of TravelSummary and BigHabitat
You know, guys who started blogs to keep their friends upto date on mileage stuff. As if your friend give two effs about mileage stuff
LOL ok that summary made me laugh
Wow there was a lot of late night action last night in the TBB comment section.
Yeah there was a ridiculous amount of rampant selling with no integrity around here man . It expanded to reddit too 😉
Ok, 5 applications today, and the only one that auto approved is a Barclay Arrival from your link. #yourewelcome
Aviator pending
Merrill Lynch Pending
BOA Alaska denied #wtf
Capital one business spark denied #WTF
Seriously, I’ve thrown away a dozen special offers on that card in the last year for my business, and then I get outright denied.
When that multi million dollar offers, you are on the list! Gracias.
BofA is getting weird
http://www.doctorofcredit.com/psa-word-warning-bank-america-credit-card-applications/
Capital One…smh.
I can live without another Alaska card, but I’d really like that Merrill Lynch card. I only have 2 open cards right now with BoA, which is the weird thing.
I think the BofA Rewards team is doing some great work…unlike the Amex team 🙂
It all started when MMS did that “look at me, I got six BofA cards, I am expert”…I wish I had his integrity…bwahahahahaha
with that intrgrity comes a wrecked marriage. Becareful what you wish for
If your comment does not appear, let me know ASAP so I don’t have to dig into hundreds of viagra and insurance ads, por favor!
Summary of every day on TBB
-Buzz posts random stuff. Some is funny. Some is weird.
-Buzz whines about no clicks.
-Buzz whines about bloggers who post inferior offers.
-The regulars laugh and console Buzz.
-Occasionally one clicks a link.
-Someone criticizes Buzz. Half make sense. Half are mean.
-Buzz calls all of them trolls and agrees 0% of the time.
-That person keeps saying the same thing for hours.
-Buzz keeps saying the same thing for hours.
-Nobody thinks anything they didn’t think before.
-Scattered dad jokes and negativity.
-End of night someone says what a weird day it was.
-The next day is the same.
-If nobody came in to criticize Buzz, there are only 12 posts from the same 7 people.
-All steps repeat the next day.
U have potential. But, seriously, how long have you been reading this blog?
Summary Man:
Long comments.
Tries to be fairly balanced.
Tries to be funny, only succeeds in spots.
Reads and posts for free. Like everyone else.
Will not get invited to blow out party like Brenton.
Everyone: Short post tomorrow asking for ANY help/tips/advice for son moving to the Bay are for the summer!
Of course the rampant whining and selling with no integrity will continue here while looking at Feedly blog headlines such as:
35k Sign Up Bonus Amex Starwood Card/s Last Call! by Points, Miles and Zuchhinis
Top 10 Benefits of the Starwood Credit Card by $$Links We Like
Buy Amazing Experiences, Like Tickets to Sporting Events & Concerts, With Your Starwood Points! by Million Integrity Secrets
okay I better stop…
Behave!
Richard Branson just couldn’t hold it back for a day?
launching a dyslexic-only sperm bank
https://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/worlds-first-dyslexic-only-sperm-bank
Yeah, looks like it…
Very funny!
FACT: George trained this guy: http://i.imgur.com/TH7ZgWy.gifv