Does it make sense to manufacture Delta elite status?
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Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Nick and Greg debate:
- Marriott gift cards
- When cash is better than points
- Platinum card devaluation (with Priority Pass restriction)
- The benefits of using Qantas to book AA flights
- Does it make sense to manufacture Delta elite status?
- And more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at |
| 0:07.1 | voyescape.com. |
| 0:10.8 | Kind of an interesting autograph collection property that's oddly located, but really cheap on the |
| 0:17.4 | AAA rate for some reason. Oh, nice. So we just had daily getaways for Marriott gift cards 20% off. |
| 0:26.6 | I jumped on there to try to buy some and clicked, you know, buy like right away as soon as it was live and it said they were unavailable. |
| 0:36.6 | Did you try? I did, I did. I struck out too. |
| 0:40.2 | I mean, I was sitting there, everything refresh, refresh, refresh. I think maybe it's because I was in |
| 0:44.2 | Switzerland. It was too slow, but it takes longer to get across the pond. Well, I'm here in NAMI, |
| 0:48.2 | Michigan. I don't know where daily getaways is headquartered, but I guess it must be on the, |
| 0:53.9 | maybe on the East Coast since I, maybe on the East Coast, |
| 0:55.1 | since I know people on the East Coast like that. I've always scored him in the past. I've never had trouble with it in the past, and that's, you know, locking in from New York usually. So maybe that's what it is. I thought the report for people that got him. And I was jealous. I was like, oh man, I would love 20% off all the time. |
| 1:10.1 | You can stack it with four turtles. |
| 1:11.5 | I mean, it's no-brainer. |
| 1:13.1 | But let me ask you. |
| 1:13.8 | Why do you care? |
| 1:14.5 | You've got... I was like, oh, man, I love 20% off all the time. You can stack it with pit bulls. |
| 1:11.5 | I mean, it's no-brainer. |
| 1:13.1 | But let me ask you, why do you care? |
| 1:14.5 | You've got the magic, you have the magic venture card, venture one or something, right, that has that a deal where you get Marriott or Fairmont gift cards at a huge discount. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:27.1 | Why do you even care if you get Marriott gift cards? |
| 1:30.8 | That's a good question. |
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