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This Blog Buzz Edition covers blog action Sunday October 5th and Monday October 6th on a first Junk in, first Junk out basis. This is intended to be satire! If you were the subject of satire at SNL and you complained you certainly would look as ridiculous as we aim to make this blog! Feel free to start your own blog to be as ridiculous, hurrryyyyyyyy!
Loyalty Programs Should Be Loyal – View from the Wing [Another tirade about how wrong it is for a loyalty program to treat some one paying $5,000 for a ticket differently than someone paying $200. Tiring. Give us the Top 10 Credit Cards dude!]
Asiana A380 First Class Los Angeles To Seoul – One Mile at a Time [Same old same old. Is it just me or they all look the same by now? I can’t believe there are people interested in these but apparently there are. These must take so long to upload. Why don’t you just lay back and give us your expert credit card advice dude? This is just too much work, aren’t you tired by now? You can be like MMS!]
New Miles and Points Tool Coming Soon – Mommy Points [Been busy lately writing ebooks about comprehensive destination guides. First ones up are Orlando and Hawaii. Never mind I have visited Hawaii less than 5 times (guessing). It is amazing how easy it is online to portray yourself as a true expert! Well, it’s better than all the geniuses MMS interviewees “I discovered travel hacking in 2013 and started this blog to share my secrets with friends and family” blah blah blah. Got me many binders full of experts!]
Sapphire Preferred or Arrival Plus for General Spending? – The Points Guy [If you did not answer BOTH you clearly have not been reading TBB long enough! By the way, I am 6.7! And did you know I spent $575 on a helicopter ride from New York City to the Hamptons but it was free because of all you suckers who keep applying for my cards I sell here non stop!]
How to Be a Travel Hero: How to Handle Yourself When Flight Schedules Melt Down – View from the Andaz Suite [Prior to 2014 you would expect some great industry analysis often in this blog. Starting in 2014 we are totally winging it trying to trick readers that we are still relevant by repeating the same old advice over and over and over while prepping more credit card posts where the dinero is. See below.]
A visit to the HOM: My American experiAAnce – if you jump ship – what to expect! – Delta Points [Never fails to make me scream WTF! A visit to Randy Petersen’s home will now be divulged in four parts, seriously? We read stuff like Delta will destroy the Skymiles program starting in 2015, sell the Barclays US Air credit card, learn of a visit to the bathroom on an AA plane (thanks for the visuals on this), see an “awesome” picture of a cookie (!!!!), compare the seats of AA and DL planes, learned how he blew 50k US Air miles for an F trip (not all segments!) for this trip (wow!). By the way….one segment was not upgraded and he had to do the “walk of shame” back to coach. What can you say about this? Help me Lord not lose it again!]
How the Chase Ink Plus Gets You $875 Off Any Flight on Any Airline – Million Mile Secrets [No, you are not hallucinating…we are going to sell this card every freaking day! We just like to pummel our readers to death because pumping pays! Hey bow ties are expensive! Grrrrrr. 4 questions in the comments, ignored. Who has the time, we are too busy preparing the next credit card pump!]
30 Awesome Things You Can You Do With 75K-95K Ultimate Rewards Points – Dan’s Deals [30. Awesome. Things. What is more awesome is when the money gets deposited to my bank account, thanks Chase!]
Mr. Deals is sick of getting yelled at… – Deals We Like [Oh great. We now have Mr. Deals posting again. Pleeeeease don’t, we don’t really care!]
Do You Know These Six Awesome Uses Of Ultimate Rewards? – One Mile at a Time [Wow, just wow. I wonder how ridiculous bloggers look trying to come up with yet another “imaginative” way to sell the same credit card! Eeeek! Like some comments like this by Gene: “Another shameless pimping post...” and this one by Mike: “Some of us are getting very sick of the huge amounts of c/c posts you do nowadays.“]
Bonus US Miles on Gas Stations, Dining, and Department Stores – Milevalue [Post #1,456,666 selling Barclay credit cards.]
Take a Cruise With 70,000 Chase Points From the Ink Plus Card Bonus – Million Mile BS [Wow, just wow! Even I am amazed how much more sales-y this blog can get, wow! The only comment was “There should be a disclosure that this is a terrible way to redeem valuable UR points…” LOL. Some businesses have no shame at all!]
Should You Apply for the 70,000 Mile Ink Sign-Up Bonus? – Frugal Travel Guy [Mailed in by Rick. Of course he says YES, don’t be ridiculous. Hey, make up an EBay business or start cutting lawns, it does not matter you must apply! Look at me I have two businesses wink wink. Amazingly two people left comments and Howie responds by suggesting to email him for a “suggestion” LOL. Wow!]
Top 10 Best Credit Card Sign-up Bonus Offers for October 2014 – Well Traveled Mile [Nothing else pays better to allow us to do this gig full time! Please help!]
Guide To Maximizing US Airways Miles: Part 1 – Introduction – Well Traveled Mile [Like I said, please buy our cards!]
Lufthansa “Miles & More” Offer Back Up to 50,000 Points – Chris Guillebeau [Hey, look at me again I am back to sell a credit card. I am an expert I just never blog about miles/points, I only repackage info I find on Flyertalk and resell it to suckers who pay me money. I love the Lufthansa credit card but it is not as good as that Hawaiian card! Why am I bothering with this crap is beyond me…I need help!]
Which Is the Better No Annual Fee Business Card? – Million Credit Cards [Yep. You guessed it! More secrets credit cards. Because you did not have enough you sucker! LOL!]
BAcon BAcon BAcon – it’s BAcon! Viva Las BAcon 2014 – Delta Links [Boarding Area bloggers rock, blah blah blah, Bacon in Las Vegas so neat, blah blah blah, click on my Uber and Amex Delta credit card links, blah blah giggles.]
I took some time off on Monday afternoon only to see an accelerating barrage of hideous pimping of the Chase cards. I do not like the word pimping at all but what do you call unrelenting repeated “get the _______ card from Chase” using the same old arguments as yesterday. THIS IS TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL PEOPLE. YOU, YOUR FAMILY AND ANYONE YOU KNOW SHOULD AVOID THESE BLOGS! THAT MEANS IF THEY ARE SPEAKING AT A PRESENTATION WHY GO? IF YOU SAY TO SEE OTHER FRIENDS DO ARRANGE YOUR OWN MEETUP AND SAVE THE MONEY FOR THE FEES AND TRAVEL COSTS! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. I CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!! Thank God I have great insurance now lol. How do you like to be repeatedly sold to? I personally absolutely despise it. So…don’t read these blogs. I do it for YOU so YOU don’t have to. I am actually an idiot for keeping this baby up…there is no other explanation! Even my therapist is perplexed! WTF, this is what they do right? Get me over the mental block Doc please! Here is a tip about telemarketers who call you: Say nicely hold on…then take the headset next to the toilet and keep flushing it…Most don’t call back! High Five Me! Or, even better, Amazon me!
2 new limited time card offers, only a few days left for Amazon Payments, & more news – Noob Traveler [Pump it boy!]
Chase Ink Plus Perks: Save More With the Visa SavingsEdge Program – Million Ways to Stay Chase-y [Holy Mother of Chase! This is absolutely out of control! It is repeated info and then it is CLOBBERED TO DEATH! Even my cat rolled his eyes and went: Pffft! 3 comments with two pointing out errors and this one by Lantean: “this is an uneducated post created just to pump up referrals.” What? They are no experts here? U angry? Grrrrr]
Award Inspiration: 81,000 Ultimate Rewards for a Dream Trip to Europe – Just Another Points Traveler [Hey, when cards pay so good we try hard to come up with anything to sell them. It is economics!]
$875 in Your Pocket is the Worst Case Scenario for the 70,000 Points You Can Get from Chase Ink Plus – View from the Chase Suite [From one of the most respected bloggers to one of the most pumpy bloggers! This is what money does to people folks. Not even trying anymore. Will say anything for conversions! Get your tickets to be pumped in person!]
Top Chase Ink Plus Benefits Along with 70,000 Point Bonus – The Credit Card Guy [I am finding myself in an increasingly fragile state right now. Blood is boiling. Who the hell are all these new “expert” pumpers polluting my hobby? Even managed to turn the old good bloggers to mega credit card pushers! Shame on all of you bank servants. You will sell your mother in law for a conversion (I sure would lol). How much more can you pump? The answer by all of you in the Ignore list is always: MORE!]
Is The Mileage “Game” Finally Dying? – One More Chase Card One More Time [Bunch of BS, hit me with a Chase card, COME ON! I like this Lantean commenter who nails it again: “all this results from predatory blogs like MMS, TPG, VFTW, DD etc bullying masses into the mileage game… every joe blow has millions of miles now and wants to fly cathay/qantas/singapore F around the wold because MMS told him it is as easy as applying for one card…what else did you guys expect?”
Would You Eat A Salad From A Vending Machine? – One Credit Card at a Time [Excuse me, meant to say One Dozen Chase Credit Cards at a Time. Like to throw in some totally filler stuff as we prepare the next pumpy Chase Credit card post, thanks!]
Randy Petersen Calls Me Out: Should American Make a Revenue-Based Frequent Flyer Program Their IT Priority? – View from Higher Class [Yada, yada, yada. They are so tight they could be in this together to take readers’ minds off for a few posts before the next credit card pump comes down]
Citi ThankYou Points Free Sharing Between Accounts – Milevalue [We jump on ANYTHING that can help us sell the few credit cards we can sell. Our readers probably do not have a clue if credit cards we do not sell even exist. We like it that way by the way.]
I am a long suffering Detroit Lions fan. Lost a game last Sunday on a typical horrendous fashion. New kicker missed all three field goals, just one would have won the game. This is a new guy after the first kicker was let go already. I am thinking of trying out for the team actually!
This is insane what I am doing! Friend asked me if I am crazy to keep doing this. I replied with “Who will save the newbies?”
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84th.
Don’t be so modest Erik You know you are Number 1, errr, I meant FIRST!
Somewhere between 1st and 6,948,586th
Nothing snarky about all the Hyatt cat 4 posts today? Boo………
The criticism of the posts that don’t push credit cards is misplaced. Instead of dismissing them as ‘filler waiting for the next credit card post’ they should be encouraged ‘finally some good content.’ Carrot and stick both, you know?
I’ll take a fifth.
@ Spencer F: Your comments always crack me up. Well played, well played!
@ lindy: I have already added TIF’s post on Hyatt Cat 4 hotels in tomorrow’s “Good” Buzz post. I thought piling it up here in Blog Buzz (“Bad”” Buzz?) may be a little overkill. You are right, i should start diversifying away from my anti cc debt. But…I can’t help when it is all I see around me (in Feedly!).
@Johnny Rotten: Well, I leave the good stuff for the non Blog Buzz days. I do not expect to praise the Ignore Blogs content here. Why? Well, it is like making deposits and withdrawals in a bank (pun intended). These blogs are so overdrafted is totally ridiculous! And actually, what good content are you seeing in them? I hardly see anything. Jason Steele at TPG writes some good stuff (Easy now people!) but the rest are filler material for the next cc barrage. And MMS? Is there anything worthy written there anymore? FTG? VFTW used to write some good stuff regularly but decided the money is too good to bother anymore. OMAAT, look at my ____ F flight and my luxury hotel, zzzzzzzz. I need to take a few off the Ignore list…Wallet Slot (looks like it folded) and Extra Pack of Peanuts who went all podcasty…
@ Mel: You are number 1 too!
At 2 year anniversary of my blog I just can’t see me keeping up this pace for a few dollars per day (on a good day).. Thinking to pull an OTR move and instead of killing it turn into a once a week “release” super rant. This Feedly time is just too much!
My team won 3-1 last night in soccer. I was out of Greek yogurt so I had a little pasta before the game.Lesson: Don’t eat pasta before soccer games. Felt so heavy and could not find the net, only the goalkeeper who seemed larger than life! I had a good 5 or 6 shots I usually score but nope….Just not a good day in the office. It always feels so much better on Tuesday morning after a win!
In related news, water is still wet.
And there’s nothing new under the sun.
I sell, therefor I am.
I am bored too 🙂
Dude, you are ON FIRE today! Loved it. So much of this is so obviously true!
“From one of the most respected bloggers to one of the most pumpy bloggers! This is what money does to people folks” Yep, money has degraded almost all of them….
Anyway, thanks for the great ranting. You had me laughing a couple of times there!
Just a couple? Disappointed at ourselves, we promise to do better in the future 🙂
Money must be THAT good, most don’t even pretend anymore…Very sad indeed.
I need to stop ranting and figure out next move for TBB. That mega buy out offer is probably not coming anytime soon!
Yesterday’s revenue $1.96…did not even cover coffee at Panera. I felt like crying together with the Tuesday grief support group that meets there weekly….booohoooo!
Time for lunch, coney island it is, greek salad and lentil soup…
To infinity and beyond!
I think you can make “money” via referral offers like the Chase Ink refer-a-friend. You should easily find 5 people willing to throw you a bone with those 10K referrals.
Okay, it’s not hard currency, but we all know 50K chase UR points is WORTH AT LEAST $675 DOLLARS!!!!!!!!! (or whatever the headlines are these days.)
Chase shut me out of these 10k offers, so so cruel!
I need to do a tab to have readers who keep asking to get cards through me. One day I will get there, it is like a mental block or something. My therapist has been on it for a while lol.
It will be priceless to see ingy’s reaction——>entertainment 🙂
Ingy is too busy trolling the FT EM&PR forum today.
I need to get back in there one of these days 🙂
Eh, not really.
Buy out offers do happen, especially during bubbles! Who knows you may be sitting on Jan 2000 NASDAQ high right now. 🙂 SELL SELL SELL! 😉
I really enjoy reading your content, thank you for writing, it is some good parody and entertainment a few times a week.
Cheers,
PedroNY
I have resigned myself it just isn’t going to happen sadly 🙂
Thanks for the kind words!
Breaking news!!!!
Gary wrote another Chase post. It was the exact same Chase post as yesterday. The wording on the title of the post changed differently. Tomorrow the same post will appear. It will have a slightly different one as the headline today.
Sorry, I hate to spring surprising news upon you all but thought it needed to get reported
It is quiet something huh? Wow! What pimps OMG! There, I said it. I could not control myself!
Lucky’s post about a private conversation in the lounge made me immediately think my kids do not turn out as douche baggy WOW!
Drew had a fantastic post today on the Indonesia hopper, just in case you were wondering whether there were still any “miles and points experts” out there who actually still talk about miles & points and are actually experts
One blogger shows you how to hack travel, on blogger shows you how to “HURRY!!!! 3 DAYS LEFT for THE CHASE INK 70K OFFER!!!! STOP EVERYTHING YOU’RE DOING!!!!”
experts vs. “experts”
DP had a post selling the Ink Plus, the Arrival and a Flex card….$1,675 Take that Gary!
In the meantime, reason #345,686 to hate Delta came out and I am sure he is working on a detailed analysis lol.
Only 3 days left? Oh my.
TBB, glad your Amazon link doesn’t expire. 😉
Didn’t even pay for my Panera coffee today, so sad!
Love the 3 Stooges picture…So sick of the pump pump pump sell sell sell picture. I think you’ve gotten too many miles out of her and that statue.
On another note, FTG had a great post today on when NOT to use miles. Worthy.
what do you mean? “you’ve gotten too many miles out of her and that statue” It is late…
What post u talking about? 🙂 Some “accounts” are so over drafted! Wish C. did not write there.
The two many miles comment is regards to the statue rubbing actress. I think she’s a little overdone now. I know you guys get a kick out of her though. Regards to the FT G post it was Miguel Quinones post to “not use miles on these flights” he gave some excellent advise and tips.
Ps BA news was great 🙂
Miguel buying space to push his business, FTG “buying” content to push credit cards. Vegas challenge and the Ink Plus all over it.
The BA team is prepping the credit cards….so sick of the $1.69 per day with the Amazon link…enough of the injustice doing this for FREE, err, $1.69!