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TBB Gem Comments of the past week November 1 - 8, 2014 — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 18:14:02 +0000

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By: TravelBloggerBuzz

TravelBloggerBuzz — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 13:41:22 +0000

In reply to Jared. I am working on a vaccine for us infected...and I don't mean Ebola lol

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 04:01:46 +0000

I tried a 21-day ebola-like quarantine of all this nonsense but I can’t fully shake it. After 17 days I absolutely needed to know the best credit card to get a free night at a Hilton if I’m a teacher.

The sleuthing part is kinda fun, tho…

By: TravelBloggerBuzz

TravelBloggerBuzz — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 03:39:19 +0000

In reply to Jared.

Hey Jared, sorry it took a while for your comment to show…not sure why it was held up…I approved it as soon as I noticed it.

You mean that all this about TPG was not common knowledge to you (per Jason Steele, the contributing writer there).

Who knew? 🙂

What I find totally wild is the guy who signed the trademark purchase papers was just fired by not agreeing to testify in an SEC probe, something about massaging earnings or something…

Down with the Titans lol

Sometimes this whole hobby and all the people in it is just…too much…too much. Good to see you kicked the habit….well, mostly it appears. It’s like a disease, is there a cure? lol

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 03:01:37 +0000

In reply to TravelBloggerBuzz.

I can’t believe now you’ve got me getting in on this TPG thing:

thepointsguy.com URL is managed by, gasp, creditcards.com, which is part of bankrate:
http://www.whois.com/whois/thepointsguy.com
The address of the admin (9430 Research Blvd Bldg) is the creditcards.com office.

And if you look at the page source for “WalletUp by Creditcards.com”, you’ll see that the email address for “email us” is appsupport@thepointsguy.com:
http://walletupsupport.creditcards.com/customer/portal/articles/1516933-walletup-overview?b_id=3457
(look in your page source tool in your browser to see that email address)

That all certainly makes posts like these (about “great tools” like one from creditcards.com) a little suspect:
http://thepointsguy.com/2013/08/maximizing-targeted-offers-and-the-card-match-tool/

And it’s probably just a coincidence that the PR contact on the TPG press release is, gasp, a PR Manager at Bankrate:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/half-of-americans-dont-know-what-travel-insurance-covers-213110521.html

Or that Zoominfo lists that guy as both a PR Manager at Bankrate and at TPG:
http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Ted-Rossman/1653101307

(This is sorta fun, actually)

By: TravelBloggerBuzz

TravelBloggerBuzz — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 02:13:42 +0000

In reply to Greg.

MMS follows its business plan.

You are just angry 🙂

It’s all marketing…

By: TravelBloggerBuzz

TravelBloggerBuzz — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 02:10:45 +0000

In reply to John. Chachinging it lol

By: TravelBloggerBuzz

TravelBloggerBuzz — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 02:10:12 +0000

In reply to Mark. So much generates at FT is...ridiculous :-)

By: TravelBloggerBuzz

TravelBloggerBuzz — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 02:08:03 +0000

In reply to Katherine. Thank you for the info. We still don't know if all or part of his company was sold. Can someone ask him at the next Seminar? Thanks.

By: TravelBloggerBuzz

TravelBloggerBuzz — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 02:06:51 +0000

In reply to Dia. Hope you don't write the same sentence when TBB gives readers what they have been asking :-)