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Frequent Miler on the Air

$1K Visa Gift Cards for Manufactured Spending & Finding United 5K awards

Frequent Miler on the Air

Frequent Miler

Aviation, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.9638 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Greg & Nick of Frequent Miler discuss whether or not the upcoming sale of $1,000 Visa Gift Cards at Simon Malls is a big deal, how that compares to manufactured spending at shopping malls, and why you want to find United 5K flights.

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0:00.0

This is a Voyescape podcast.

0:03.9

You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com.

0:11.4

Happy Friday.

0:14.5

It looks to me like you're heading somewhere.

0:17.2

It's Friday, you know, it's that time of the day.

0:19.7

I guess every Friday, it seems neither of us are at home for these Facebook lives, right?

0:25.1

So where are you?

0:26.5

Absolutely true.

0:27.4

I'm sitting in the Detroit Sky Club.

0:31.0

My wife and I are about to head off to England.

0:33.7

So we're excited.

0:36.1

We've got an exciting trip planned. And I think next Friday we'll actually be in England and we can talk all about it then. Good idea. Good idea. We'll find out how it went and what you did. So cool. All right. So you're taking off on a trip. I also am not at home visiting friends though this weekend. So that's been nice to be

0:56.3

able to get a chance to catch up a little bit that we just got here a couple hours ago and had

1:00.7

dinner. So on the road to tell your friends, like I have to sneak off and do a little

1:05.1

Facebook live thing. Yes, but the funny thing is something we're going to talk about in a few minutes

1:10.1

came up over dinner. And so like it made more sense, I think, because the friends aren't Miles and Points people. But we talked about this first thing, which I might as well just let the cat out of the bag and get to it. So we found out this afternoon that starting on July 17th, Simon Malls is going to be selling $1,000 visa gift cards with a $3.95 activation fee.

1:29.0

So you can buy a card with $1,000 loaded on it and your visa gift card, $4 activation fee.

1:35.7

So I mean, that kind of blew up in different sites when the rumors hit and that kind of thing.

1:40.0

And then it got confirmed by our Simon Mall contacts July 17 to August 4th.

1:44.5

They're going to have these things.

1:45.6

So, I mean, it sounds cool, $1,000 a pop.

1:48.2

What do you think?

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