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It appears that Chase will do the right thing by giving all old IHG Rewards Visa card holders the free night in ANY hotel. Nice job! Good that we did not cancel the cards! I guess we’ll keep them another year in the…drawer 🙂
Some changes at our favorite bank are coming! HT this Reddit post:
May 20th launch.
New Chase Business Ink Cash Unlimited (like CFU) $500 for $3000 spend in 3 months. Same Pricing & Terms like CIC with no annual fee.
Negative: CSR no longer earns 3X UR on $300 travel credits [900 UR ($13.5 value) loss annually], limits 2 free guests ($27 per guest after) to Priority Pass lounges and removes Price protection.
Positive: Known but official positive changes on United MPE cards: 2X miles on hotel accommodation, restaurants, up to $100 TSA Pre check/Global Entry, 25% in flight food, beverages, WiFi. Negative: Price Protection removed.
Get Free National Car Rental Emerald Club Executive Membership For Visa Infinite Cardholders. And match it to others then.
It is hard to believe that Flyertalk has been around for 20 years. And I think I have been active there for 19 of them #WOW.
This is pretty good and I can not avoid that lame blogger question, which is your favorite? 🙂 101 things to love about New York City.
Here is another one about what China is attempting to do. “China’s social credit system, which becomes mandatory in 2020, aims to funnel all behavior into a credit score.” How Do You Control 1.4 Billion People.
This is another disturbing story. I had no idea about how DNA can, you know, move around so easily, wow! Framed For Murder By His Own DNA.
Well, he did not get far in the NBA playoffs this year again but he will be back. And the guy has a great story to tell. Giannis Antetokounmpo, the Milwaukee Bucks’ ‘Greek Freak’.
This Craigslist ad to sell a 1999 Toyota Corolla is HILARIOUS! Click it only if you want to laugh okay?
Your personal finance fix of the day: Bad Advice Can Be Expensive. Probably the understatement of the year. Sometimes I feel like the biggest benefit of good financial advisors are keeping clients from making mistakes!
…concentrating your assets can make you rich but diversifying your assets keeps you rich.
Quantifying good advice can be difficult because there are no counterfactuals. It’s nearly impossible to add up the performance numbers or market value saved by avoiding mistakes or bad investment advice. But just because you can’t specifically quantify the absence of good investing advice, doesn’t mean it’s not extremely valuable.
…there will always be a market for bad advice when money is involved. The temptation to chase fads, new investment products, and too-good-to-be-true promises can be relentless. Wealthy people will always be targeted by charlatans, hucksters, and people who are better at selling than managing money.
These are wonderful. 7 of the world’s coolest-looking churches you didn’t know existed. I want to visit this place #bucketlist
This blew my mind. Multiplicity. This interactive installation provides an immersive dive into the image space spanned by hundreds of thousands of photos taken across the Paris city area. Using machine learning techniques, the images are organized by similarity and image contents, allowing to visually explore niches and microgenres of image styles and contents.
Ranked: The 10 Wealthiest Countries in the World.
Another TBB fav song. Rodriguez – Rich Folks Hoax. Great story about this guy who was forgotten in Detroit working construction without realizing he was a superstar in, please sit down, South Africa during the apartheid years. There is a documentary about it, it is wonderful!
I think this blogger is really angry! Why You Should Stop Following SecretFlying.
With the new Ink Cash Unlimited earning 1.5% (same as the Freedom Unlimited) I can not help but think how dominating this bank has been in the travel rewards credit card marketplace. If you have not gotten the plain no annual fee Ink Cash card yet maybe now is the time because I am guessing they will not keep them both around. Thanks for using my links you guys!
I want to end my Fairmont glorious lifetime Platinum career with a bang. I have three free nights and some hundred dollars of dining certs and of course Suite upgrade certs. But I am having a hard time deciding which property to visit as I have visited some of the best ones out there. And it must be fairly easy to fly there too. There is the Riviera Maya Mayakoba property in Mexico but I am hearing more chatter about violence in that part of the world lately. Maybe finally visit the Pacific Rim property in Vancouver.
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That wealth chart is weird… considering the 2008-09 recession was inbetween the growth sounds enourmous. Also the source is the ‘new wealth report’? The CapGemini HNWI has different data…
I am going to continue being positive and congratulate you for being FIRST! 🙂
Good links and funny this morning! Thank you.
I am on a roll….Lets keep laughing…
The other Cavs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9HGjZd_Fm8&feature=youtu.be
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Wow, that DNA transfer is scary!
While I didn’t really expect Chase to give the one-year reprieve, I didn’t understand the rush to cancel cards in a fit of pique. I figured I’d hold onto mine even with the category restrictions I imagine I can still get some benefit greater than the AF…and if not, then I’d just cancel next year. Though I fear that the AF will go up sometime in the near term, at which point I’ll cancel if it goes up too much.
Price protection is one of those CC benefits I’ve never, ever used – so its loss doesn’t hurt my feelings any. As for the CSR losing credit on the $300 – seems like a nickel-and-dime cheesy devaluation but at the same time, not a big deal especially if it staves off some other deval. Actually the first time I used, it, I actually assumed there wouldn’t be any UR credit on the $300.
I did call up to find out the anniversary date on wife’s IHG card because I was not going to keep both of them. It was in December so I am keeping it. For one more year…gathering dust in the drawer 🙂
Price protection: Same here, never used it, who cares!
I am sensing Chase is cooking up something with the pooling of UR points. And it is not going to be something good. Cross fingers
Price protection works for when you want one of those (upcoming) Black Friday deals, but don’t want to deal with the crowds. Just buy it ahead of time and submit for the rebate.
“…..ponder about how to end a glorious Fairmont run with a bang….”.
Even with that (impressive) weight loss, dream on, our leader. Dream on.
Call me a dreamer 🙂
You’re not the only one.
Son decided to go for Southwest Business Card with my links….Got the 30 day notice. And now the wait game begins…
How’s his business going?
Going great, the outlook for the rest of 2018 looks amazing!
Been to Fairmont Pac Rim. Nice room. Personally, I
prefer Empress in Victoria.
Thanks.
Any other comments anyone?
I just returned from burning our last President Clubs certs at Orchid on the Big Island. 4 nights plus suite upgrade plus several dining certs. Excellent property in great location. You can’t go wrong.
I commented on the SecretFlying post about how you’d gotten hosed on hat tips. Any specifics again? Nice to know if someone calls bs.
If I had a dollar…
But doing a whole post on the subject is a bit much imho.
Kind of weird this post came from GSTP and not TBB 🙂
The real money in fare deals is selling them to newbies. These guys for eg:
https://www.jacksflightclub.co.uk
are very successful in the UK despite ripping all their content off other sites and charging ÂŁ25 per year for it. They probably make more money than me.
“selling to newbies”
see a pattern here?
🙂
I guess it is time to take son to file a business name certificate with the county to get that business card, sigh.
If you have time (and the inclination), can you explain the steps you are taking? Is what you get from county enough for the issuing bank (who is asking? CHase?)
Not going to post on blog, just some safe things tomorrow. You can email me.
Thanks for faxzero.com
Seriously Chase?