A World-Class Wells Fargo Wallet | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep303 | 4-25-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
We tend to ignore Wells Fargo cards because there are so many other great credit cards out there, but they actually do have some compelling cards out there. In today's episode we'll discuss which ones you might want in your wallet.
(01:47) - Re: Clarifying our "Beyond 100K Sapphire Preferred" episode, which you can read more about here.
(19:33) - Bigger Capital One VentureX Business Card offer via private banker
Listen to the podcast episode about the public Capital One VentureX Business card offer here.
(22:49) - Citi decreasing redemption rates on emirates starting 7/27
(26:24) - Read more about the OneKey Cash devaluation for Vrbo stays here.
(29:10) - A top up fee for priority pass lounge access
(32:10) - Read more about the Japan Airlines devaluation here.
(35:26) - More Japan Airlines (JAL) news
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(39:29) - More Bilt news
(44:55) - Learn how to use Bilt to pay student loans with points here.
(46:24) - United MileagePlus Showing More Awards After Changing Settings
(49:51) - Wyndham Points + Cash reservations now bookable with as few as 750 points
(51:12) - Learn more about Gondola here: https://frequentmiler.com/gondola/
Main Event: A World-Class Wells Fargo Wallet(57:04) - Transferable points
(59:27) - Notable Wells Fargo credit cards which have transfer abilities
(1:01:07) - Notable Wells Fargo cash back cards, which can be moved to a transferrable point card
(1:04:33) - Here's how you can build a world-class Wells Fargo wallet
(1:07:44) - Downsides (and fun hypotheticals)
(1:13:32) - See our current transfer bonuses resource here.
(1:16:22) - How many of your millions of miles come from sign up bonuses vs credit card spending, and where does most of your credit card spend come from?
Read more about how to increase credit card spend here, and watch our episode 197 about increasing spend here.
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder
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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. |
| 0:10.8 | Today's show is jam-packed with all kinds of information, including we clarify a number of |
| 0:16.4 | details about the Sapphire preferred card. |
| 0:19.1 | We talk about how Purity Pass seems to be adding resort fees, |
| 0:24.5 | and how to build a world-class Wells Fargo wallet. |
| 0:29.4 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:34.1 | Today's main event, a world-class Wells Fargo wallet. |
| 0:38.6 | We tend to ignore Wells Fargo cards a lot. |
| 0:42.0 | They're not top of mind the way MX and Chase and Citibank and Capital One cards are, but |
| 0:48.5 | they have some really compelling cards, including transferable points cards. |
| 0:53.2 | And we're going to talk about how you could |
| 0:54.5 | build a really awesome wallet just with a few Wells Fargo cards. You know, I think you're going to |
| 1:01.5 | convince me a little bit, Greg, because really awesome sounds strong to me. So I'm curious to see |
| 1:07.7 | if you can convince me that it is a really awesome wallet. |
| 1:13.3 | But there's definitely some interesting cards. So I'll give you that. |
| 1:14.8 | And then we'll debate whether or not it's an awesome wallet probably by the other. |
| 1:17.8 | Well, you know, whether or not it's really awesome really depends on whether you want to |
| 1:22.0 | alliterate well because world class is better when talking about Wells Fargo than awesome. |
| 1:28.8 | True. |
| 1:29.1 | So it's a true world's class wallet is what we're talking. |
| 1:33.3 | We're really talking about here. |
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