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Today's coffee break.

City cancels 5X earnings.

Welcome to Frequent Milers Coffee Break, where we focus on a single topic related to miles and points.

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I've been on vacation for a few weeks, and while I've been sort of missing from the points in

miles world, the rest of the points in miles world did not go on

vacation. And so stuff happened and some negative stuff. What's going on with city?

Yeah, I mean, we wish that some of city's rewards team had taken a vacation too because,

well, they were busy working and they were working on some negative changes. So the city custom cash card has now been discontinued for new applications.

You can no longer get it as a new card, though it may still be possible to product change to it.

We don't know if or when that will end. So it's possible it'll end even before this publishes. But at least as

of the time of recording, which is after they discontinued the card for new applicants, it has

still been possible to product change to it. So what was the custom cash and why do we care about it?

Let's go over the quick. So the custom cash was a card that earns City Thank You rewards points.

And it was a way to earn five points per dollar for some compelling categories of spend.

So basically it's a no annual fee card. It earns 5x on purchases in your top

spend category, each billing cycle, up to $500 of spend, but only in like select categories.

So those are restaurants, gas stations, grocery stores, drugstores,

and then several other ones. And I highlighted the ones that are kind of like, the ones I think

most people would probably have not much trouble spending $500 per billing cycle in those areas,

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