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I did this, super easy. Load $20 with Chase Pay in your Starbucks account and get 300 points. 125 points equals a free drink, go for Venti #maximizeit! Ends November 21, in case you missed it.
Register for the “Double Points for Being You” Hyatt promotion.
Looks like Delta tried to “enhance” its Skymiles program by doing what Delta does best, stick it to its members by adding fuel surcharges to Europe travel awards. But TBB was on the ball and fought back for you. Ok, not for you, but I do like to pat myself on the back for winning the good fight. So, expect this to come back when they iron out all the tech issues.
When airlines try to be like hotels, using big data, be afraid. Be very afraid when you see Delta being ahead on this…
Or, say, a flight attendant spills some coffee on your skirt: The tools will allow him to award you some frequent flier miles or a future travel voucher on the spot. [Oh…I can see some hacking this one hehe]
Extreme Hotel Deals is keeping track of all Black Friday and Cyber Monday hotel deals.
The World’s 11 Worst Passports. Afghanistan is Number 1!
Check out an abandoned Boeing 737 in…Bali!
I do these often…in my dreams! The hardest endurance races in the world. It just hurts…reading about them!
Your personal finance fix: The Biggest Killer of Investment Returns. It is FOMO!
Lets make fun of our President again. Trump’s Most Ridiculous Quotes Hilariously Reorganized as Poetry. You are welcome for your LOLs in advance!
Syrian school children going to school, hope these kids get back to school in peace soon!
The most valuable companies in America, great infographic!
Apparently, gas masks for babies was a thing way back then…
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Yesterday was wedding anniversary #24. Wow! Getting married is easy, staying married is hard you guys 🙂
Looks like another MS outlet has just died, RIP Meijers, where the lines are always so long, sad!
It looks like Renes Points is not a full time blog anymore as there was an announcement that the blog will only now post on weekends. Because all the bills are paid, wtf! It’s a rough business this online blogging thing. Apparently not many clicks to make it worthwhile. I expect more blogs to keep folding as there are only so many blogs to keep selling to the newbies out there…Magically, all the comments the post received were all positive. I wonder how many were censored lol.
Some young Canadian blogger tricked BBC to do an awfully misleading post titled “Canada student travels world for free with ‘manufactured spending‘”. Canadian doing MS lol. And it is a “hush hush thing” apparently but I would talk to you dear journalist so you can do an article and have readers visit my blog so I can sell them credit cards….yikes. Same old shit!
The Points Guy now has a store selling crap that is way too embarrassing to even comprehend, let alone buy to wear! Nothing says “I am an idiot” than wearing proudly a “I’m a Points Guy” T shirt bought for $25! If you ever see TBB crossing the street like this please feel free to make me never ever forget it!
There was a viral story about some pilot drawing a penis in the air. We had a little contest with another blogger which blogger will make a post about the story first. The winner was easy to predict 🙂
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Happy Anniversary and Welcome Back!
Thank you, good to be back!
Buzz-
If an FA spills Starbucks coffee in my lap, how many points do I get if I bought my ticket with Apple Pay?
I just knew Trump would make points great again.
I would wait for the MMS post suggesting to readers to have several stained shirts in their carry on and hit every FA for some compensation…Of course, all shirts must be bought by travel rewards credit cards MMS sells lol
Aww man, only two days a week of the wonderful, informative, RenesPoints?! How will I survive! LMAO! I give it 3 months until he folds completely.
Facebook is that high? Wow, kinda sad really. I still have a FB account but quite using it. Such a waste of my time.
Happy anniversary!
Semi retirement he says…
Sure….credit card dinero and $ from ads just not enough to keep going I say 🙂
I’m starting a gofundme to buy George something from the TPG apparel shop.
https://shop.thepointsguy.com/collections/apparel
I think we need some TBB t-shirts though.
Only if all proceeds go to charity, I am sure TPG’s do 🙂
24. Wow.
So, the market works?
The top 3 BA blogs are Ben (by miles), Greg and Gary.
Whatever people may think of Ben’s card content, no-one else even comes close to his airline coverage.
Greg is basically the blog for the smart guy who simply wants the news explained to them – it is probably the nearest US site to my editorial model. As a model it works.
And, if I’m honest, Gary has had more influence on how I think about miles and points from an economic and psychological point of view than anyone else – and I often find myself using his ideas in my own writing.
It also unequivocably true that if you want the best analysis on whatever the breaking miles deal of the moment happens to be, these 3 will deliver it.
The market, meanwhile, has decided that the other BA blogs are less worthy. And they are – not always because they are bad, but often because they don’t post as much or have a very small niche.
This is a positive sign. The wheat is generally sorted from the chaff.
<– Yep. Say what you will about them, they're pretty good at what they do.
If the market continues to work, Greg, Gary and Ben will be replaced by DoC and TPG.
Greg is redundant. You can get all the “deals” for the “smart” guys in a concise manner from DoC. Few need to read Greg’s latest thesis on “how much are my points worth”.
Gary still has one or two decent posts per months. Most of the other posts are already covered by the NY Post and the respectable National Enquirer.
As for Ben, it’s hard to get the general newbie market when you’re competing with TPG.
Still cannot get over that this millionaire was starting a kickstarter to fly in a suite w. a butler or whatever the f it is called. Milesfeed gives me all the news I need and 1 day earier than TBB, thank you very much!
I like Greg’s writings, and Nick seems fine, but I’m a little disappointed with the strategy of adding Nick to do a bunch of low-ball kinda posts (Save $5!).
Ben is wiki-classist. A good reference when needed but should someone who lucked out with the lottery really think so much of hisself?! Also waaaay too much gossip and gayhero worship.
I dunno what to say about the “Thot Leeder”. Should someone who makes this many typos, misspellings, and atrocious grammar really be self-promoting so tirelessly? He’s a walking joke that knows some people. And since anything really important is instantaneously available on Ben’s blog, why bother with Gery?
Between TBB and MilesFeed one can access anything that’s important and public. AND filter out the hack hackers.
Am I the only one who reads Raffles’ sitename as a business proposition?
Boarding Area blogs get paid by page views…so expect more posts.
The ones that quit the business revert to posting only on weekends 🙂
I agree on Ben. If I need to check about a Business Class seat or some luxury hotel I do check out his site. Other than that, I don’t bother.
I agree on Gary 🙂 But obviously way too many fans around here….can’t wait for another breaking news Kardashian type BS post and the “xx reasons I like my CSP card” hehe.
MilesFeed is good, I should add it to my Like list.
Greg and Nick care about quality writing. Between their site and DoC and MilesFeed you need what you need to know. For the rest, you come here for the laughs and deeper education 🙂
That last line of yours cracked me up!
Nope you’re not the only one!
So Raffles, what you are saying is, that RenesPoints did not quit? 🙂
I just don’t get why so many blogs stay on BA or how they ever get new ones. You barely see more than a handful on the BA “home page” and it’s mostly the “Titans” and a few other regulars. I recall someone saying there’s a rotation of some sort but it’s hard to see how a new (to BA) blog gets much traction among the usual suspects. But they keep coming and stay so clearly I’m out to lunch.
There are just soooo many horrible blogs on there now – the Australian Lucky Wannabe, Live & Let’s Be an Ass, PM&M,TPOL, etc.
This space has way too many blogs and can use some thinning of the herd!
Latest MMS Friday interview blog learned about the hobby from…MMS and just had to start blog to tell friends and family how to travel for free…
smh
LOL at that analysis. Gary is basically the national enquirer at this point. Raffles might as well write a love letter to TMZ with posts like that.
I thought Gary had toned it down recently.
FWIW I am told that BA isn’t a fan of the Enquirer style posts either.
There was a toning down right after I called him out…Took a few weeks off the Enquirer stuff…only to come back “stronger than ever”. He has been wrong on the revenue based tsunami and alone been trying to stop it to…save his business proposition 🙂
Interesting stuff on the loyalty fraud article, wish you had more to reveal 😉
I thought BA cared only about clicks/page views. I doubt they care about Enquirer posts as long as they bring in the clicks
24 is chin whiskers–wait until you hit 42!
That graphic on US companies packs a wallop–with lots of (mostly negative) lessons about how the market really works.
Let me get to 30 first, thanks!
Looks like son will be working next summer for one of them FANGs #developing
Firmly near the top of Big Time Ass Kissers:
Live and Let’s Fly – Yes Gary, I Would Fly 1700 Miles in a Regional Jet
ABC nails this one: “Gary still has one or two decent posts per months. Most of the other posts are already covered by the NY Post and the respectable National Enquirer.”
More later
CHARLIE MANSON, what the hell took you so long to die. Rot in hell where you belong for taking away my go to girl (while masterbating my way thru puberty) Sharon Tate. For you kids out there, she was super smoking hot!
I was not around when this dude did what he did…He always looked evil.