We bring you some great tips about Delta Skymiles awards, the latest elite status matches, Hyatt expands its footprint, we compare US wealth by regions, ring the bell about Marriott stay warnings, fly over some castle in Germany, travel to see ice fishers, get you alternatives to Google, the reasoning about abandoning the Trump era Republican party, Jet Blue and Delta messing around with routes, how much computers cost years ago, what all these letters after advisors’ names mean, we bring into attention what some “successful” blogs do and nobody blogs about it because they are too afraid to stand up for fiduciary principles and pander for backlinks so they can succeed too (barf) and stuff like that. Enjoy my blog in its present form because it is about to evolve again as the support is just not there and not going to start doing clickbait and pump 4 dozen plastic affiliate links in a single post several times a day…
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This post will lead you to all kinds of status matches. I read the fine print for the Wyndham one and changed my mind about going through it…
Not much going on in this hobby, despite all the unimportant crap posts you see every day in the blogosphere. The “big” news was this: Hyatt to Buy Two Roads Hospitality for $480 Million. Oh great, another bunch of hotel brands to be added…I am shocked Accor Hotels did not buy this one too lol. Update: Accor just bought 50% of SBE Entertainment Group, mega LOL! “The deal includes three hotels in London, St Martins Lane, the Mondrian, and the Sanderson London, as well as SLS, Delano, Hyde, and Redbury brands and dining brands Katsuya, Umamai Burger, and Cleo.” Hey, maybe we can burn our useless Accor Le Club points on burgers bwahahaha, sad lol.
JetBlue doing some route changes. Yawn…Sadly, bye bye to Fort Lauderdale from Detroit 🙁 In other news, Delta pulled the plug out of Flint to Minneapolis, sad!
In case you wanted alternatives to Google. Interesting list, I had no idea about some of these!
This is a fun link too: Check out how much a computer cost the year you were born. So sad when you realize the year you were born is not listed because these things did not exist back then!
Tiny Traffic. LOL!
Why I’m Leaving the Republican Party. Biased and excellent! 🙂
Ever wondered what all these letters after the names of financial advisors mean? What Does Your Advisor’s Designation Mean? Yours truly has three out of the seven. And the last three don’t matter anywhere near as much as the top four. I may suck in closing here but… 🙂
Lets fly over the Cochem Castle in Germany.
Ice Fishers. I love this collection.
This is really good: Comparing the Wealth of U.S. Geographic Regions Over Time. Hey Great Lakes, ouch!
I was surprised to find low fares and great availability on both AA and Delta flying to Vancouver and Seattle from Detroit. I booked a trip there for son over Thanksgiving holiday, $167 to Vancouver via Chicago ORD and then just 14,500 plus $5.60 flying back direct from Seattle. I am now over 600k miles/points burned in 2018. Like you all, I have slowed down…
Speaking of AA, you may want to give a shot at this which may give you elite status for three months. I tried it but got nada on all five accounts in the “household”…Could have come in very handy with my AA flights next week!
The scene in this “hobby” is really making me yawn lately…
Working the newbie market to death…
So, the amazing folks at The Points Guy FINALLY came out to spill the beans on the Amex Gold card 50k referrals. It was only four days LATER though, I wonder how many of their readers got screwed out of 25k MR points for the sake of the $$$ sales commissions sold at the site! And then Julian, who I like as a person, tweeted he got a big promotion and is now THE editor and many bloggers congratulated him (me too) BUT I think of the newbies! And I get a lot of shit thrown against me. For the grand total of ZERO credit card conversions this month to date, LOL back at me! PointsCentric was one of the bloggers I really liked, you are missed man! Good move back then, I should have followed you instead of fighting a battle here I can not win!
WARNING about Marriott stays! They merged WAY too soon, what a shitshow!
Folks, blog evolution is coming. ZERO credit conversions month to date, my links are on life support! The blog will live on but there is no way in hell at its present frenetic pace for WAY under minimum wage. I shut up now because I will be accused of whining, sad!
Okay, one more. Mommy Points sold the 25k Amex Gold card again yesterday way too many times in a single post…Come on, take my links away, so I can do this every day to you guys! Yeah, I am a little pissed…This is NOT how you treat readers. Stand up all you silent blogger accomplices. You too Doctor of Credit who keeps linking to these “successful” blogs….PHUCK IT, I am outta here.
I deleted more blogs from my Feedly list. I do that when the BS gets too much. We can all use less BS in our busy lives. Now Feedly is down to 237…Progress!
See you Friday. Maybe…
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That must not have been the Real ScottCastle.
Second, woohoo
I don’t the buzz about MR. One of my Sheraton stays (across the 8/18 merge date) didn’t post and I asked for retro credit which posted after 5 business days. My MR and SPG account merged nicely and I get plat treatment at every Starriott property when I show them a screenshot I made of the MR app when it showed me as Plat on the day of the merger 😉
PS: do I detect a Delta fanboi evolving in TBB?
Do I sent MRs to BA or Delta?
#developing
Same here – I had issues that other have reported previously with accounts not being synced correctly, daily changing status, etc. I merged the accounts (SPG –> Marriott) around the 1st of September, and magically, everything started working, correctly.
No phone calls needed, stays at both SPG and Marriott posting correctly, Lifetime Plat status reflected properly, Marriott Awesomeness even more awesome! Well, I made that last one up but the other stuff is accurate.
the shitshow is when something goes wrong and you need to call in…hold times are Horrendous!…and this happens more often than necessary.
And I think it is getting worse…Even Mommy Points got upset…will be harder to sell them Marriott cards lol.
As of today at 3 pm EST, no cc conversions here.
Changes coming, I mean, blog evolution coming up.
And finally, Obama managed to screw up the stock market. Hey Ramsey, that dang Muslim did it again. Or was it crooked Hillary? Lol…Time to get to work finally. TBB will take a backseat…should have been done years ago.
I think the Amex referrals just stuck a knife in it…
The phone lines are blocked with people calling in to complain about one thing or the other they can or cannot do online… :rolleyes:
Making short term predictions about the stock market is stupid. Taking credit for short term market gains is something only morons will do. For short term market losses…blame Obama 🙂
“Listen, at the end of the day we are advising our clients to remain the course so that we can collect our fees.”
https://twitter.com/RampCapitalLLC/status/1050066048173690880
RampCapital is great!
Yup,
one of these days:
https://twitter.com/RampCapitalLLC/status/1048273094916427777
Can someone check on Ramsey? I am very concerned about his health. How in the world is his idol allowing this to happen? Phucking Soros again hey lol.
Man how long did you sit on this one and wait to attempt to pull out this gem? Bet it got annoying waiting almost 2 yrs to get a down day.. Wait shouldnt you be attacking Ingy or was it Trevor or Dr of Credit? I cant keep up. Just keep that finger pointing at a froth please.
Lol….hey, still waiting on that “guns are in the constitution” manifesto dude!
Not blaming anyone…just blaming the crazy Fed!
Bwahahahahahaha….
Anyway, good for some normalcy to return…
I have no doubt Ramsey blames the crazy Fed too…
Still not even one phucking conversion come through this month, thanks MU! Oh wait, you never click on any affiliate links I forgot….smh
yah bro Im your problem. Its me not clicking your links that is making you fail.
Well, you are not helping for sure!
Anyway, with the latest Amex referral thingie…I am thinking the pumping to the newbies by the Titans will get even more out of control!
BREAKING: First cc conversion appeared today for October. Another one taken away from FTG who sold too early 🙂
Update: I had a story linked for tomorrow…only to find out TPG got to it first, sad!
Buzz-
Ever notice that CNBC’s floor reporter on the stock exchange calls himself “Art Cashin”:
https://www.cnbc.com/art-cashin/
That’s almost as rich as the TPG writer on flatulence and smelly feet calling herself “Kathrine Fan”:
https://thepointsguy.com/author/katherinefan/
What’s next?
Art Cashin is a “veteran trader”…oh boy!
I think Ramsey needs a fan looking at the Dow futures this morning. I suggest to him not to look at his 401k account. You are welcome Ramsey!
I think this week Art may be looking to cash out.
“Acutally”????
Which blogger out there can’t afford a spell checker?
These guys NEVER spell the affiliate links wrong. NEVER! smh
Other presidents get visited by scientists, civil rights activists, Nobel laureates, etc.
Trump gets visits from Kanye West Kid Rock and Ted Nugent.
Someone did check in on Ramsey and he is barely holding it together. He started ranting at a maga site that the Fed Reserve President has totally gone nuts and he is 100% responsible for it.
P.S. Hey Ramsey, Trump hired him. LOL.
When Trump is speechless with someone else…you know we have reached peak crazy…I feel sorry for this Kanye dude…wow. When you feel sorry for someone MORE than Trump…phuck me!!!! Is this all a simulation or what?