5 game-changing points & miles updates | Coffee Break Ep77 | 11-11-25
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🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
A bunch of game-changing news came up last week, right after we recorded our Coffee Break episode (which we'd recorded a day earlier than usual). We'll cover those changes in today's Coffee Break episode.
(00:56) - Rumor: 200K Chase Sapphire Reserve® in-branch offer for some customers
(02:49) - Rakuten portal now lets you earn Bilt points
(03:44) - You can learn more about the friend referral bonus here.
(05:35) - New Hyatt card coming
(09:36) - Hilton to add elite tier above Diamond (Diamond Reserve) and Milestone Rewards
(15:52) - Visa and Mastercard reportedly nearing a settlement, allowing merchants to stop accepting rewards cards
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Freakimilers Coffee Break, where we focus on a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:05.5 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less or your money back. |
| 0:12.2 | Today's coffee break, five game-changing points and miles updates. |
| 0:17.0 | Last week when we recorded our show, we recorded a day early, and boy, did we regret that, because a bunch of game-changing news piled in that day and early the next morning. |
| 0:29.6 | Most of those things would have been easy for us to add to our show had we recorded at our normal time we didn't and so we're missing a lot of |
| 0:39.6 | big news from last week's show and what we're going to do today is cover those things plus a few |
| 0:45.7 | more things that trickled in over the weekend uh in today's coffee break all right so let's get right |
| 0:51.7 | into it because we got a lot to do and i don't want to have to give any refunds. |
| 0:54.7 | So we got to squeeze this into 20 minutes. So let's start out with a rumor, a juicy rumor out that there will be a 200,000 point welcome offer coming on the Chase Sapphire Reserve in Branch for some customers. |
| 1:08.6 | So the rumor is that it'll be 200,000 points after $10,000 in |
| 1:13.2 | purchases in the first three months, but that you'll have to go in branch and they'll have to check |
| 1:17.8 | and see if you're eligible for the offer. So clearly not everybody is going to be eligible. |
| 1:22.9 | And it's going to take a little time to figure that out. What do you think about this? |
| 1:26.9 | Excited, not excited, worth it. Would you think about this? Excited? Not excited? |
| 1:28.0 | Worth it? Would you go to the branch to check? I mean, that's an absolute monster offer. |
| 1:34.6 | Now, it sounds like the same as the business Sapphire Reserve, which is a 200,000 point offer as we're |
| 1:40.7 | recording this. But that one requires a huge amount of spend. This requires $10,000 spend versus I think it's $30,000 |
| 1:47.1 | with the business card. |
| 1:49.1 | So that's a monster offer. |
| 1:50.4 | 200,000 points is absolutely bonkers, a good offer. |
| 1:55.0 | So that's exciting. |
| 1:56.5 | I think it is worth if you have a branch near you |
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