Breaking News: Bilt's sudden & crazy u-turn | Coffee Break Ep88 | 1-16-26
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Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Bilt released details of its new credit cards on Wednesday...but it was so confusing, they tried to clarify it with more confusion.
(00:18) - Bilt released details of its new credit cards on Wednesday.
(00:23) - We've written extensively about it, and today (as we record this update), we dropped a full-length podcast about it
(01:16) - Bilt heard all of us and doubled down with an even more confusing solution...
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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. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to Freakimilers Coffee Break, where we focus on a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:16.6 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less for your money back. |
| 0:22.7 | We have breaking news for you. |
| 0:26.0 | Built is out with a sudden and crazy U-turn. |
| 0:30.5 | Built released details of their new credit cards just this past Wednesday, |
| 0:35.8 | and we've written extensively about it on our blog. We recorded a full-length |
| 0:42.1 | episode of our podcast, which just released today on Friday as we're recording this update. And |
| 0:49.1 | in our posts, in our conversations about these new built cards, we talked about how these |
| 0:56.4 | new cards can be very rewarding, but they're also extremely confusing. They introduced a new |
| 1:04.3 | rewards type on top of built points. You also have built cash. And then there was a way to use |
| 1:09.5 | built cash to pay your rent or mortgage |
| 1:11.6 | or to pay the fees that don't exist for your rent or mortgage. |
| 1:16.2 | It's very confusing. |
| 1:18.4 | Even the New York Times called Built 2.0, the most confusing rewards program we've ever seen. |
| 1:26.1 | So, Bill heard us. They heard all this, all the complaints about the |
| 1:30.6 | complexity. And unbelievably, they decided to double down with an even more confusing solution. |
| 1:39.8 | Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Nick, why don't you do the built ad disclaimer this time? |
| 1:46.7 | All right. |
| 1:47.3 | All right. |
| 1:47.7 | So at the time of this recording, we are running an ad for built on the audio-only |
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