Has Citibank Sears-iously improved much this week? | Ep60 | 8-22-20
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Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 22 August 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
00:45 Reader Feedback: Greg's trip to Ventana Big Sur
4:26 What crazy thing did Citi do this week? A $900 million mistake
8:46 Mattress Running the Numbers: Targeted Marriott promotion for a free night cert after one paid night
16:24 Main Event: Searsiously? Did Sears make Citi more valuable?
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/on-my-mind-shop-your-way-gift-cards-are-a-big-deal/
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/shop-your-way-gift-cards/
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/citi-double-cash-complete-guide/
43:24 Post Roast: Greg roasts Nick's ommissions. (Nick roasted Greg during the Main Event)
https://frequentmiler.boardingarea.com/the-case-against-citi-thankyou-points-on-nicks-mind/
52:32 Question of the Week: What is the best credit card for accelerating retirement savings through manufactured spending?
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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. |
| 0:12.2 | Frequent Miller on the air starts now. |
| 0:19.5 | Today's main event, |
| 0:26.6 | City thank you rewards becomes more valuable thanks to Sears. Sears? |
| 0:27.6 | Sears. |
| 0:28.6 | Sears. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm looking for digging into that. |
| 0:31.6 | Yes, Sears. |
| 0:33.6 | Seriously? |
| 0:34.6 | Sears. |
| 0:35.6 | Yes. Sears. |
| 0:36.6 | Sears. Crazy. I would have never believed we'd be talking about this today, but yet here we are. |
| 0:43.3 | Of course, we're not going to talk about that yet. That's more of a teaser for later in the show, because first you have to drag out that giant mailbag. |
| 0:51.3 | Here it comes, here comes, dragon, dragon, dragon, dragon, dragon. Ooh, there it is. Yes, okay. And today's feedback comes from me. |
| 0:59.8 | From you. Wow. All right. So I just threw all the reader mail right away. |
| 1:05.0 | Through the mail over my shoulder. It crashed out the window. Yeah, David Letterman style. |
| 1:10.0 | Since we don't have like a sound effects person, |
| 1:12.7 | I just have to describe what just happened. Okay. So I thought it was, |
| 1:19.9 | I thought it would be a good idea for me to close a loop on something I've talked about before. |
| 1:24.8 | So I talked before on here about how I managed to book a suite at the Ventana Big Sur. |
| 1:32.4 | And I got a great deal on it because regular room awards weren't available, |
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