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Yesterday I posted about the public link for the Chase Marriott credit card offering its highest bonus ever of up to 107,500 points. Of course most pumping bloggers kept mum…until they got their hands on their affiliate link and then they went to work pumping it like crazy as usual. First one out of the gate: One Mile at a Time. Followed by: View From The Wing. Followed by The Points Guy Inc. This is how you do it…when will I ever learn? For the record, this card is available with my own links. If you carry a credit card balance please go away, this game is not for you! That’s all, lets move on.
If I ever did a miles/points resource page, this one would be near the top: Frequent Flyer Bonuses You Should Bookmark. Believe me trust me.
Good award sale 25% off Iberia Avios Awards. You could get to Europe for just 25,500 miles. Wow (pun intended, see below).
We are seeing more air fare sales recently. And low cost airlines keep growing. So, and this is philosophical to a degree, “As plane tickets get cheaper, your miles may be worth less than you think“. Of course do not expect the pumping bloggers to revise their miles/point valuations any time soon as that will not be beneficial to their $$$ conversions. For more beatings on this topic dear to my heart, please see BLOG BUZZ section below.
If you have the Hyatt credit card, this post will help you redeem your free night. Unbelievable how the Hyatt website still sucks!
The Hilton Garden Inn in Singapore opens on June 15, 2017 and you can get it for 10,000 Hilton Honors points per night. That means just 40,000 pts for 5 nights (with fifth night free). In my book, this is a real deal!
WOW Air is coming to Chicago, so getting to Iceland and then onwards to many places in Europe is going to be…well, it’s going to be interesting. Tell me again why we collect miles when you can fly to Europe for $99. I know, I know, it is not just $99…it’s a rhetorical question 😉
Okay, this had some parts that made me lol. My Insane, Painful & Torturous Nepalese Thai Massage & Why It Has Me Questioning Myself.
And then the “fun” began. I learned what it felt like to be turned into a human pretzel. Over the next hour she kicked me, stood on me and bent me as she displayed super human strength. At times despite my best efforts to hold it back, a whiny yelp would leak out of my mouth. I would have been embarrassed, except I had other issues I was dealing with. I needed to survive this torture to get back home to my family!
This short video will blow your mind. I have shared with you here all the ways how the octopus is just an amazing creature. And then you won’t believe what it did next! Octopus Squeezes Through Impossibly Small Hole.
This is now my favorite chart found in “The Dow’s tumultuous 120-year history“. You may need to click on the image a few times to read it better…
Oh shit indeed! Found here.
BLOG BUZZ
This section is for advanced level hobbyists and veteran blog readers & personal rants & stuff
If you were interested in the issue of taxes in this hobby, Doctor of Credit has his take on it.
Maybe a new feature, maybe not. I think it is going to get to a point that I will delete them all again from my new Feedly IgnoreBlogs folder…because the BS just gets too much. But I am in a ranting mood again so I will make a few comments below this awesome pic…
There was an incident about leggings on United flights. A total non story as former flight attendant Ramsey explained in the comments. And the whole internet went ballistic. Numerous posts about leggings, The Points Guy Inc even did a #LeggingsGateSpecial Report (yeah, please stop laughing) and One Mile at a Time even went on a local NBC affiliate to show his expertise on leggings. Mommy Points posted pictures of her daughters in leggings. So much bandwidth to make you puke. I tried to convince my wife to wear leggings and let me post a few photos of her in my blog just as a parody…but I think she is getting a little tired of my funny requests lately “I am NOT Emily”…When she gets mad I am scared lol.
I am learning how this shit works. Get the banks to have a credit card promotion and then unleash the pumping bloggers to sell the crap out of it. Right now, it is the Amex SPG cards that are going strong due to the 35k bonus that ends in a week or so I think. And of course the 107.5k Chase Marriott Visa I showed in the opening paragraph. So, you have been warned, watch the shitshow unfold!
The Points Guy Inc. does these “Deal Alert” posts. I counted 22 affiliate links in the post. Because…never underestimate how many morons are out there who fall and click on this crap that you can find elsewhere MUCH quicker!
Mommy Points selling her readers the 40k Amex Platinum card. Enough said…
I can’t believe Miles, Points & Martinis is still around unleashing every affiliate link they can get their hands on along with Rene’s Points selling yet another credit card. Please don’t click on the click-bait title…it was the SPG card.
This is how team communicate with each other at Million Mile Secrets…Things you find in Feedly…smh. I mean, people still think the two founders write? One day I will have staff here #dreaming
I mean, I could do this all day…I closed the doors to new clients to do this for peanuts. Something is really wrong with me, please click my links so I can afford a better therapist lol.
Thanks to the two readers who got an Amex SPG card with my links. This special post is for you!
Help me stop whining, click my links and I shut up with my prison labor/minimum wage “job” here for our entertainment, thanks! I think I like the trolls who come out to bash me a lot as traffic explodes #wink. If I was at Boarding Area I could collect a decent check every month and I would not be…whining 😉
Refer to the mission in red at the very top of this post. Did I accomplish it? If yes, great! If not tell me I suck but before you do that…tell me how I can stop sucking, thanks!
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I can now tell the real story…. TBB wouldn’t let me post yesterday until I changed out of my leggings and by then it was too late to be first
On a side note, I’ve now booked short r/t trips to Europe for my wife and I for around $350 each (from a ST hub) 3 times. We’ve gone to Europe twice just for a weekend already. I know some of this has to do with the LCCs, some of it has to with overcapacity, but I also wonder how much it has to do with the Mileage Run pretty much being a thing of the past, so nobody is buying 15 tickets and just flying them over and over back to back.
The leggings excuse made me laugh #wellplayed
You may be on to something on the MR factor…certainly contributing to this. Still can’t wait for TPG to change his mile/point valuations lol.
Have to be content with being second 🙁
Coming after ScottCastle…it is like being real first 🙂
3rd from Bali…Happy Nyepi!
Buzz, the octopus vid was amazing. And not how that coffee/movie/concert was amazing. Actually, literally, amazing! I can’t fathom how people can eat octopus or ride elephants, for just two of the much-more-intelligent-than-you-realize animals. People eating dog?! No WAY, those guys can roll over! Amazing! Now gimme somathat octopus sushi….
And while I’m up here on my soapbox can we have a teaching moment from leggingsgate? Clearly United was both right AND wrong. But when and why did we start treating people this way?:
–“United are like Nazis I tell ya, you can have my leggings when you pry ’em off my cold dead body. Think of the Children! You’re an @sshole for supporting United!!!”
–“Any f*cking idiot who has a problem following the rules while getting a free ticket is a scum sucking loser who belongs in the pit of Hell!!!”
People. Calm down. Outrage leads to heartburn. Not even Nazis deserve heartburn. Next time take a moment. And then, don’t post or comment. Because you’re giving me heartburn.
Snowflakes are precious and don’t deserve heartburn.
Sounds like they got good pot in Bali, or did you start drinking?
Nazi’s DO deserve heartburn, capice?
When I go back to Greece, in the area I roamed in the summers, in my favorite taverna…I always LOVED eating octopus…Now I feel guilty. Dog or elephant..Never!
I may have to think about doing this again…Definitely tasty I must admit!
@Who, thank you for proving my point!
Some things in life are BAD…
…they can really make you MAD!
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you’re chewing on life’s gristle,
Don’t grumble, give a whistle!
And this’ll
help things turn out for the best…
And…always look on the bright side of life…
There is a bad case of over capacity wth the big 3 and a ton of LCC traffic across the pond. Summer 2017 will be ugly for airlines if oil goes to 55-60$.
Legging gate, lol. Or barf?
Debating with myself if I should use a precious 5/24 to go for the Marriott card…I think I am at 4/24.
Travelling on public transport from N VA to DC this morning. Amazed how empty everything is as we zip by super crowded freeways.
If I had an intern he will send you the affiliate link in your inbox pronto 🙂
Yeah…I have never seen such low fares to Europe, wow!
Oliver, that’s coz the section of Metro you were on wasn’t being worked on or in full meltdown mode like yesterday… how long you in town?
It’s interesting that the caption under the Dow 120 year chart is “Human Innovation Always Trumps Fear”. The biggest innovation we’ve had in that time period is money. We don’t need no gold standard any more, we can just keep printing forever!
Pull up a chart of the national debt over that time and note the correlation with the Dow. The solution to all our problems is so simple; the faster we print money, the faster the markets will rise. Just think what the Dow could have done if we quadrupled the debt over the last 8 years instead of just doubling it!
We should abolish all taxes since we no longer need foreigners to buy our bonds; the Fed can just buy them with the money they create (i.e. monetization). Then we can employ all the former IRS staff into rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure. Of course the Fed should continue its other monetary polices such as low interest rates, QE, buying bad debt, bailouts to underperforming banks, etc. I should run for office as this plan will surely make the USA prosperous! What could go wrong?
Good Tuesday morning Buzzers:
Leggings/yoga pants/skinny jeans are gifts from Zeus for the right body type (the 5%?). For the rest, Satan be LOLing.
The whole contrived “controversy” is just Planet Earth, early 21st century. Everyone is quick to be offended and faster to outrage. Social media provides an outlet. *sigh*
The blogosphere reaction is — methinks — more about clicks and conversions than anything else. Just as it always was (except here in BuzzLandia).
From the “shit” link today, take a gander at this: http://proteus7.tumblr.com/post/158924577068/free-style-dreams-perfidia-pura-perfidia
Any Buzzers in SoFL? Had an interesting conversation yesterday with a hotel person telling me horror (H-O-R-R-O-R) stories of what it’s like in the hotel bidness there during Spring Break. Hard to believe kids can be so bad. Part of me wants to see it at least once — like slowing down for a traffic accident?
And: where do these kids get the money to blow $400/nt on a hotel and run up $500/day room service tabs? And probably not even members of the loyalty program let alone using the “right” shiny bit of plastic to pay for it all… *sigh*
When it’s all said and done, there’s nothing left to do or say. #TBBon
Loved that pic on the shit link, very funny! Hmm, I wonder if that is what they are thinking hehe.
Amazingly, bloggers still post about leggings. Unbelievable!
I was in Spring Break in Daytona and Ft. Lauderdale. I think summer of 1987. Oh those were the days…
Buzz,
Like I said before, if people still click on MMS links after seeing these amateur-ish crap like “template here”, “template here and here,” or
“Harlan, please fill out template post to be scheduled to post by March 10, 2017)”
then there is really nothing you can do for them.
I agree…
It is sad…
But I have more…tomorrow 🙂
To help TBB keep going, all of these credit cards are at Best Highest Offer and available with his links here:
Personal AMEX SPG at 35k SPG points each Ends 4/5/2017
Business AMEX SPG at 35k SPG points each Ends 4/5/2017
Personal Chase Marriott Rewards Premier Personal Visa at 107,500 Marriott Rewards Points
AMEX Hilton Surpass card for 100,000 Honors points & free weekend night Ends 5/31/2017
AMEX Hilton no annual fee card for 80,000 Honors points Ends 5/31/2017
Updated 3/28/2017