We bring you another edition of TBB’s Best of Web: How a dweeb turned bank hacker and lived the high life, an awesome Twitter investing rant, how it is living with chronic depression, meet the hideous Instagram wolves scamming people and probably the best link on the backdoor Roth IRA accounts. And the best music to sleep with! For you for freeeeeeeeeee!
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24 Year Old Australian Man Spent $2 Million After a Bank Glitch
This is a really fun story! In our travel hacking hobby we are always on the look out for deals. And then we carefully scale them before bloggers kill them š This loser kid, in a pure stroke of luck and bank ineptitude, found himself…a gold mine. And he kept on going! Of course I do not condone what he did, he obviously knew what he was doing was wrong. But was it criminal? Well, you gotta read the whole story. It takes a very surprising and positive turn in the end! This was obviously, deep down, a good and bright guy who took a little while to…find himself. On top of it all, his father was a bank executive lol!
Not going to spoil it for you, read the whole thing!
For you drifter reading my blog…it is never too late to make something of yourself!
Best Twitter Investing Rant Ever?
Other blogs try to click bait you with hideous headlines, I despise these tactics. I try to stick with the blog mission. Educating is primary here now. And this Twitter thread by a fund manager is spectacularly educational. Just click it!
My name is Wil Wheaton. I live with chronic Depression, and I am not ashamed.
This is an incredibly personal and stunning read of what it is like to live with chronic depression, wow! Highly recommended and please share it with loved ones who may benefit from it.
And be kind to each other #newpositiveTBB š
Fake it till you make it: meet the wolves of Instagram
When the byline of an article reads like this:
Their hero is Jordan Belfort, their social media feeds display super-rich lifestyles. But what are these self-styled traders really selling?
you just know your stomach will be turning big time as you read this article.
Please avoid this crap, you have been warned!
I am barfed out…
17 Ways To Screw Up A Backdoor Roth IRA
Well, what the hell! This edition of Best of Web has taken on a personal finance angle to it so lets end this baby with a bang! Probably the best read on them backdoor Roth IRAs you may have heard about. I still think coining this with the word “backdoor” is kind of ridiculous but hey, it is what it is!
Bookmark it and read it at your leisure if you are interested on the subject. And then come back here and click my links. Not interested? It is okay, click my links anyway!
Gracias TBB readers.
BeBest okay?
Extra link because you did send a link of my blog to your mother in law and clicked on my links…right? š
I think I may have found the best music to relax and/or sleep with! Here it is:
Moby – LA
4 hours of awesomeness, enjoy. For your perfect yawns to lead to your beauty sleep!
And I leave you with this…I think this gif reflects my blog’s monetizing lol!
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Biggest deflating feeling:
You check the Amazon and credit card clicks and you find a whole lot of nothing. At least there were no returns.
Can’t even pay for the coffee I am drinking now. At McDonalds, just $1.06. Free refills of course.
Five and a half years in…
There is something really really wrong with this picture…
You all have a Happy Mother’s Day…
I’ve personally gotten at least 10 cards from your links, and have referred someone else here for another 5+. Assuming you get at least $100/application, that should cover 5 years of coffee.
It’s 2.37 at Starbucks and 2.11 at Panera man š
Thank you.
Bottom line is…not making minimum wage per hours. Not even close actually. And that, when clicks get silenced, it…bothers me. It should not. But it bothers me. Especially when I see the thought leader and the others keep on click baiting and pumping plastic left and right…
If it wasn’t for the few good supporters like you…this baby would have long ago joined the endless stream of blogs that have quit…
I am going with the Warriors and the Celtics on Game 1 today š
This just in-
Dan’s Deals has the poop on the Up & Up Flushable Wipes settlement:
https://www.dansdeals.com/miscellaneous/purchased-flushable-wipes-2010-2014-get-27-target-gift-card-20-packs-wipes-no-proof-purchase-required/
Dan says you can get a $27 Target gift card for filing a claim WITH NO PROOF OF PIURCHASE (get it?). Emphasis added.
Dan’s in there pitching for us folks, so it’s ok to comment, but no dirty cracks, ok?
With his readership…not sure if that $27 floor will hold š
someone catch me up…isnāt Dan an Orthodox Jewish man? Does his religion support lying for profit? Or does it just support TEACHING people to lie in order for them to profit from another?
Man, that Judaism is catching right up to those Christian Fundamentalists that support Rumpās lying, cheating on his wife multiple times, and innumerable moral failings. I mean, the Muslims just kill people. Aināt Gawd great?!!
Well, I said no dirty cracks and this āanonymousā shows up. This is not my blog, pal, but if it was, Iād tell you to take your anti-semitic garbage and head down the road.
Show me where Dan has lied-good luck because Iāve never seen him do that. Also show me where he has ever claimed to speak for or represent Judaism. Iāve never seen that either. Heās a clever hustler who has built a big business around the idea that most Americans want someone who will say āHave I got a deal for youā. And he does, cheap diapers and all.
Dan being Jewish has no more to do with anything than does Mommy Points being blonde, the Points Guy being tall, or our own Buzzer being handsome, smart, honest and under Federal investigation for the Russia thing. Nothing wrong with any of that (especially blondes).
As Jessica Rabbit put it, itās just how theyāre drawn.
The Points Guy is tall? Like, Yao Ming tall?
Pump those brakes, Sam, then work on your reading comprehension. And Iām not your pal, dude.
Hereās your own quote: āDan says you can get a $27 Target gift card for filing a claim WITH NO PROOF OF PIURCHASE (sic) (get it?). Emphasis added.ā
Which says to anyone, āyou can get Target to give you $27 if you lie about having bought XXX.ā Yes, I got it. Even without your emphasis. Or winks.
Now hereās where the poor reading comprehension comes in. I wrote, āDoes his religion support lying for profit?ā, which was an honest question, followed by, āOr does it just support TEACHING people to lie in order to profit from another?ā, which was a rhetorical questionāsince that is exactly what Dan is doing by posting instructions (teaching) of the option to get $27 from Target (the āanotherā in the quote) by filing a claim with no proof of purchase (wink wink).
Dude, youāre jacked if you think anything I wrote calls Dan a liar. What I rightfully accused Dan of was teaching others to lie for profit from another. And then I was pointing to his religion, which he publicizes often, and asking truly if his religion supported the actual ālying for profitā angle, since it seems that his religion might support the teaching of that behavior-since Dan is an Orthodox Jew and that is literally what he did in the post. Either that, or Dan is really not following religious law (if it exists in his religion) to not teach or help others to have poor ethics and morals.
Oh…and the āanti-Semiticā comment. Dunno what to say about that. Iām anti-religion, so I guess itās true that Iām anti-Semitic along with anti-Christian, anti-Muslim, anti-Hindu, anti-Devil Worship, etc. But Iāve also found through the years that some people love throwing that term around as a strawman argument to distract others from the fact that their own accusations are misguided and baseless.
Iām not anti-Semitic, Iām more anti-āreligious folks being hypocritesā. Whatever that religion is, that they wear on their sleeve (wink wink).
And, George, just because Sam says it doesnāt mean itās true. Iāve given you passes before because English isnāt your first language. I understand how idioms, slang, rhetoric, sarcasm, etc. are difficult in other languages. But please try to reason something out, or even punt by not saying anything rather than āWTF was that?ā Maybe youāll get more income from this blog, from me.
Hey anonymous, pick a handle at least!
Who are you coming out and blasting a blog that is respected around here? Only shots at Titans are allowed…like that consistent Bond guy!
Maybe Dan is anti-lawyer? The settlement has been reached, the money will be given out, more goes to the common people than the lawyers. Or something like that I would like to think/wish.
For the record, I did not do it. Did you? He found it, he posted it, what people do is their responsibility…oh wait, sounds like Ingy lol.
The WTF comment was because…you came out of nowhere Anonymous!
I would like to go positive you guys, please let me.
Anonymous-
If your intemtion was to point out religious hypocricy in general, then I accept your apology.
Your pal,
Sam
@George, not blasting the blog-Danās a good titan. Just pointing out yet another example of his religious hypocrisy. Why āanonymousā? Just look at your response and samās infantile attacks.
@sam, and the horse you rode in on. I did nothing for which to apologize.
@ Anonymous: WTF was that?
@ Agree with Sam. Not sure about that handsome thing. And LOL on the “Federal Investigation for the Russia thing”. I just RT’ed a Russian account on Twitter with a pic of a Russian beer…Name “Leninad”. Tagline: “Get hammered”.
Speaking of Mommy Points…she had a very emotional post titled “How Airline Miles Make Me a Better Mom” and not even ONE word how the credit card sales commissions may had something to do with that š
M is for the many miles she gave me,
O is for those Office Depot cards.
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Hope the Warriors bring cheer!
Good Sunday links. Thanks!
I say the Warriors in 5
Fixing to do some furniture buying through Amazon in a couple weeks. Hang in the TBB, Now that Jet Blue is gone, You’re the link!
I am hanging on for you š
View From The Wing is at it early Sunday morning…
Chinese Tour Guide Deported for Pulling Flight Attendantās Hair
The end…
Must be drawing many clicks since he continues to post this type of clickbait stuff…
Otherwise he would not be doing it.
ItsAllAboutTheCilcks with these guys!
Can you be a successful blogger NOT doing it full time and doing it in a very respective manner valuing your readers’ intelligence and their time and, you know, posting quality content often?
I doubt it….Sad!
Yes …. š
Well, I am full-time (x2). But surely part-time is easier, since you can be respectful if you don’t need the money.
Show me a “successful” blogger out there who did it…part time.
Still waiting š
And thanks for catching my error…meant to say “respectful” and not “respective”.
Timeline of the Air New Zealand business class awards bookable on Virgin Atlantic miles:
God Saves the Points lets it out at FTU.
No Mas Coach, while in session there, blogs about it to be first you know.
Gary Leff HTs No Mas Coach lol
OMAAT HTs No Mas Coach lol2
Travelsort gives no HT to anyone
Upon Arriving HTs No Mas Coach
And the Rewards Abuse Team is standing by to kill it in…three, two, on
Buzz-
Are you saying GSTPs had some real content? That would be agreat headline.
I am pretty sure I saw it a long time ago somewhere else…but kept quiet about it.
The funny thing on the whole story is that “No Mas Coach” did not let him finish…had the post up already! And then how the other Titans HT him and not GSTP…which probably drove him nuts. I bet he will not call them out this time š
“We’ve made some adjustments to our award pricing…”
Already? š